#TheClimateRevolution: Find your role. This is the first of a series of episodes about finding your role in the climate revolution.
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Mik Aidt
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Danish-Australian film and radio producer, freelance journalist, based in Geelong. 60 years and a lucky dad to three beautiful kids aged 13, 15 and 17
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"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people."
It desperately needs more "people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable & humane, & these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
– David W. Orr
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If someone wants you to be angry about climate activists & trade unionists & immigrants but not angry about a tax dodging planet devouring corporation making a record £32,000,000,000 annual profit, then they are not on your side.
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“Making systemic changes can be a difficult and complex process, but it is not impossible. It requires a combination of different strategies and tactics, as well as a strong and united movement of people committed to creating change"
The AIchatbot gets it
“I’m not worried about going to jail,” she says. “I’m worried about my grandchildren and my great-grandchildren. What kind of a world are they going to get?” 👏👏👏 #savetheplanet
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Climate Change: a short story!
In 1988, global temperatures were approx 0.6 °C above the pre-industrial average. It was, at the time, the hottest 12-month period ever recorded.
None of us will ever experience a year that cool again.
#eTukTuk #SaveThePlanet #ThereIsNoPlanB
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Please share this. Soman Wangchuk under House Arrest..
#ClimateFast for protection of Ladakh under the 6th Schedule.
#NarendraModi #AmitShah #saveladakh #ClimateCrisis #environment #Sustainability #nature #savetheplanet #sustainable #Earth #GoGreen #ClimateEmergency #recyclego
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About time? Too late? Not going far enough? What do you think about the single-use plastic ban coming in later this year?
#singleuseplastic #plasticban #plasticwaste #plasticpollution #recycling #waste #savetheplanet #environment
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🚨 BREAKING: Shell has just announced record breaking annual profits of more than £32 BILLION.
So we paid their HQ a visit to deliver a message: STOP DRILLING, START PAYING.
#MakeShellPay
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🤐 JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTER CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT FOR SPEAKING CLIMATE TRUTH
⚖️ Yesterday, Stephanie Aylett, 28, stood in court for contempt of court after talking about her motivations for taking action with Insulate Britain — the climate emergency and fuel poverty in the UK.
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Lobby group, the Minerals Council of Australia, gave $233,562 across Labor and Liberals.
transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualDonor/Re
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And of course - Waratah Coal owner, Clive Palmer, used Mineralogy to pour more than $117 million into his UAP campaign - which won a grand total of one (1) senate seat.
transparency.aec.gov.au/AnnualDonor/Re
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2019: EU wind and solar overtake coal
2022: EU wind and solar overtake gas
Yes, we are at THAT stage of the transition already💪
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Another day, another government considering approving a massive coal mine expansion. 💀 The NSW Perrottet Government can't claim to be serious about tackling climate change if it keeps approving new coal mines. #MoveBeyondCoal #coal #nonewcoal #NSWpol
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Every coal plant in the US (except for 1) is more expensive to run than building new wind or solar
For 75% of coal capacity, renewable energy is much cheaper - offering savings of at least 30%
New Coal Cost Crossover report from :
energyinnovation.org/publication/th
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Do u know that because of human activity
273 species becoming extinct every single day
10,000 and 100,000 species are becoming extinct each year.
That rapid loss of species is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate
wwf.panda.org/discover/our_f
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Meat-based diets use 75% more land than plant-based diets.
Today, humans and the animals we keep for food account for 96% of all mammals
If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
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When it becomes clear collapse is coming, the media will say they did cover climate change enough. But what they did was fan doubt, create clickbait debates about protesters, and rage about even the smallest changes like vegan sausage rolls. The media are to blame.
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Depleting the ocean of marine life
76% average decline in freshwater fish populations from 1970 to 2016 - including a staggering average decline of 93% in Europe.
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Four activists are occupying a critical piece of ’s oil equipment RIGHT NOW.
Can you retweet to show them support? #MakeShellPay
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A culture and a system that finds it ok to deforest the entire planet for the sake of increased profits has to go.
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Join to explore how to protect our right to protest & reflect on what dissent in our democracy could look like with a rise in disruption from climate and environmental emergencies. Join Clive at The Capitol on Sat 11 Feb. Register via bit.ly/SLF-democracy
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Yes after jail time #VioletCoco is out on bail but still faces 15 months for blocking one lane of traffic on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, not to make a movie though, just to save the planet. Join us to fight for action on the #climatecrisis
stopffs.org/calendar
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Ryan Gosling stopped traffic for 8 hours on the Sydney Harbour Bridge.... didn't even go to jail for it.
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Momentum for a unified climate movement | To help us find our footing and direction as we enter a new year of climate activism, our guests in #TheSustainableHour no 445 are climate activist and director of Luke Tailor.
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We need creativity to imagine a more positive future.
@RepublicofEveryone recognise that, which is why they are our 2022 Climate Comms Champions.
Build an ad industry that creates demand for a better world.
Join us at commsdeclare.org/declare/
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In support of the #barclays7 who undertook non violent direct action against Head Quarters to urge the company to cease its funding of fossil fueled profiteering & climate destruction.
Read the Doctors 4 XR letter
cloud.extinctionrebellion.uk/s/3RPq6TLFrPGi¡
#xrsouthest
#endfossilfuels
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Scotland has naturally gifted strategies that many countries don't have,and it is excellent that the Nation utilises those strategy strengths!
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Source: World Economic Forum
#climateandcorporate #Sustainabilitylearnings #scotland #renewableenergy #wEF
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Very few people around the world could claim to have done more to tackle climate change than Professor Will Steffen. He was a first class scientist and a world class communicator. Around the world and in Australia, many are mourning the loss of a valued and loved colleague. Vale
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"All of my belongings are destroyed. There is no shelter for us, so we have been sleeping on the roadside."
"More than 600 people lost their lives and another 1.5 million people were forced to flee their homes."
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There is no hope in the political sphere.
As states
"Politicians will not come to the rescue of the planet."
#ClimateEmergency
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"New Zealand roiled by flash floods, landslides for third day." The terrible effects of climate change referred to by Kevin Trenberth (see my previous tweet).
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retweet if you think new fossil fuels are an act of murder
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This is very sad news. Will was so generous in sharing his knowledge on climate change and a rock of intellectual integrity in the dark days of climate denialism in Australia. Journalists who covered the climate crisis in those years will never forget his courage
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I have no words to express my deep sadness for the loss of Will Steffen who passed away last night. He had been one of the most influential individuals in global change science programs, director of GCTE, IGBP, and driver of ESSP that led to the creation of the @gcarbonproject
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I love this conversation between two climate leaders and friends I so deeply admire, and . Here's to the joyful fight!
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Climate strike week 231, in Davos outside the World Economic Forum where those most responsible for the climate crisis meet. We’ve written a letter to fossil fuel CEO’s demanding no new fossil fuels. You can sign it too: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/da
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike
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WE ARE NOT WINNING. Former Vice President of the USA says the people who run our world and economy are driving us towards global cataclysm. Where are our cultural and political leaders? They need to raise the alarm and demand action NOW #ClimateEmergency ox.ac.uk/news/2021-08-0
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In a largely unseen system, abandoned bikes are repaired and shipped to people across the US — and around the world — who can use them to travel to school or work.
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As a result of climate change, ~65% of the cultivatable land in the African Sahel has degraded, causing mass migration and food insecurity. African nations combined have emitted less than 3% of the total global greenhouse gas emissions. #ClimateJustice
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Africa shouldn't be a dumping ground for any trash of any form. The African continent is already paying a huge price for climate change yet many countries are dumping their waste on the vulnerable continent.
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