I'm grateful we tried. Man, oh, man, did we try.
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The fact that Coca Cola is sponsoring COP27 makes me want to scream. We are beyond out of time. The people who will suffer first and worst and die do not deserve this. Fuck all the rich corporate ghouls and their parasites who are taking down this life-giving Earth for all of us.
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And people who haven't done civil disobedience yet explaining to us how to do civil disobedience better reveal that they don't think what's happening is serious enough for doing civil disobedience. Please join us! With more people doing it, we will get better at it.
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Some of us prioritize stopping Earth breakdown over even priceless works of art. People who don't think Earth breakdown is an emergency would find us silly or abhorrent.
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When people tell you who they are, believe them.
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Say what you will about the Soup Van Gogh action, I cannot think of a more efficient way of revealing people's priorities and whether they feel climate breakdown and mass extinction is genuinely an emergency. Like an x-ray into people's minds.
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If you’re clutching your pearls about soup on a painting — over 1700 environmental activists have been murdered in the past decade for standing up to extractive industries.
Your outrage should go to protecting and seeking justice for earth defenders.
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In case you haven't realized it yet, climate activists are only getting started as fossil-fueled climate breakdown is intensifying every year. If this activism inconveniences you, consider directing your anger at world leaders who are completely failing to act
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This, in turn, will require not allowing the fossil fuel industry a seat at the COP27 table. If the fossil fuel industry is once again allowed in (it was the largest delegation at COP26) I guarantee that COP27 will once again be a failure.
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The only real metric of success is whether COP27 translates into causing global greenhouse gas emissions to peak and start going down. This will require a no-bullshit approach to reining in the fossil fuel industry and financially supporting the Global South.
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Few things on Earth matter more than whether COP27 is a failure or a success. Global heating is a global problem that needs global coordination to solve. COP26 was clearly an abysmal failure, despite how incrementalists tried to spin it.
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These were scientists protesting, and the German Chancellor said: "They make protests about climate and they think that's going to improve our discussions. And I think the best way to improve the discussions is not to listen and move on."
So much for listening to scientists.
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Scholz' Statement vorhin ist Stoff für nen Horrorfilm.
50 Wissenschaftler:innen blockieren den Eingang zum #WHS2022 aus Verzweiflung über die weitergehende Zerstörung von Klima & Ökosystemen. Und er so:
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Do you believe throwing soup at some glass is a greater crime than the death of the living planet?
Do you, from your comfortable distance, say "I support their cause, but not their methods"?
If so, please read what Martin Luther King had to say about such mindsets.
#JustStopOil
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Well said. I agree with every word. Absolute fucking heroes. We are nature defending itself.
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I'm willing to do this 'cos I'm not willing to sit back and see everything burn - Morgan, Civil Engineer
Our corrupt politics is causing this disruption, it will end when gov #EndsNewOilandGas
Donate bit.ly/JSOdonate2
#QEIIBridge #FreeLouis #FreeJosh #Soup
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NYT "Our entire civilization and all life on Earth is being threatened because of the fossil fuel industry which has been lying for decades" not "fall is coming later it's not too late to hop on a plane and see the leaves" challenge
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"Months of record-breaking drought in the Northeast have deprived trees of water, and in the West, nearly 100 large fires have swept a path of destruction across seven states. But leaf-peepers need not despair"
The media is failing us all on climate.
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To many in the replies, it seems you somehow failed to understand me even though I was quite clear. I'm asking you to *demonstrate* your ideas for more effective civil disobedience. Don't tell us how great you think it would be from your armchairs, go out and actually do it.
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To those sitting in their armchairs criticizing climate activists, if you can do better, show us. I'm being completely serious. We desperately need you to pitch in and demonstrate how to do it. Bring your brilliant ideas out into the world before we all lose it
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We need a moratorium on all new fossil fuel projects. And then we need to start rapidly reining in the fossil fuel industry.
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World leaders are still ignoring climate scientists. You should be terrified by this.
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+++ BREAKING +++
Scientist Rebellion interrupts the opening of the World Health Summit (#WHS2022) in Berlin, Germany.
Over 50 scientists demand immediate national & international action to limit the escalating climate crisis.
#UniteAgainstClimateFailure
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To all the people saying "what odds, we're already truly fucked," my response is that there are very, very different levels of "truly fucked" and we are absolute fools if we don't fight as hard as we fucking can now to save whatever can still be saved.
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Especially the fossil fuel industry though, it's very roughly an 80/20 thing, but I suspect we could end animal ag more quickly if we were to treat this planetary emergency like the actual planetary emergency it is. And note that the global rich are massively driving the damage.
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The key to stopping the immediate damage is ending the fossil fuel and animal ag industries. The key over the longer term will be transitioning to a new sort of economy that doesn't worship profit and tech above all else and doesn't hand power to a small number of rich sociopaths
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Every day of continued climate inaction increases the odds that we are all truly fucked.
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Also, the hopium at the end of the article is misplaced. We cannot count on lucky future cold periods. This is an ongoing trend caused by burning fossil fuels: Earth is heating EVERY YEAR and this WILL continue so long as we burn fossil fuels, ergo we must stop.
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Precipitous and massive collapse of snow crab population due to fossil-fueled global heating. Note well that this is just the beginning, we humans have NOT transcended nature, and we can NOT survive without healthy, productive ecosystems on planet Earth.
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Some guy busted into our house and started yelling it was on fire. He was super rude, loud and then he and his friends, a group called “the firemen” sprayed everything with water.
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OK, hear me out, this was actually a visionary and inspired action.
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I feel very sad that people remain more outraged by this action than by irreversible Earth breakdown perpetrated intentionally by fossil fuel executives, even now that everyone knows no damage was done or attempted to be done. People just have no idea what’s coming.
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It’s destructive to protest the destruction of our planet by trying to destroy beautiful art.
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One thing good activism does is reveal the disgusting currents hiding just underneath the masks. They need a light shining on them before any real progress can be made.
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“I don’t like those kids throwing soup at a Van Gogh, so I’m siding with the IMMINENT DESTRUCTION OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEMS KEEPING ME ALIVE.”
That’s what some of y’all sound like.
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Pretty clear people like this who claim “I’d be a supporter if only they hadn’t thrown some soup and not harmed a painting but NOW I’m going to actively destroy Earth’s climate” were never actually going to not be awful. Carry on
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The Van Gogh stunt makes me want to buy a dozen Buick Electras and leave their engines running round the clock. If there’s such a thing as anti-activism, that’s it. twitter.com/highlandsbunke…
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The neoliberals and moderate climate advocates who have been revealed to literally be more outraged by the non-destructive Van Gogh action than they are by the intensifying and irreversible destruction of life on Earth are the problem, and they can’t even see it.
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The hysteria over this action defies belief. The false argument generated over it suggests mass derangement.
The silliest false argument is this action is no way to win public support. This pre-supposes we were on our way to addressing the climate crisis, until this action.
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JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTERS CHOOSE LIFE OVER ART
Human creativity and brilliance is on show in this gallery, yet our heritage is being destroyed by our Government’s failure to act on the climate and cost of living crisis.
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It’s a perfect fall day in North Carolina. I’m sitting outside listening to the bugs and the birds and the wind kicked up a bit and acorns are dropping.
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