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It’s #ClimateWeek2019 so I thought I’d create a #MedThread/#Tweetorial of Explore The Space podcast episodes focusing on #ClimateChange.
Please scroll through!
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Episode 152 w/ @MichaelEMann
A smashing layout of the current state of #ClimateChange & our response w/tons of resources for us to communicate more effectively. Also a premium @BillNye name drop!
#ClimateChange
explorethespaceshow.com/podcasting/mic…
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Episode 132 w/ @Jamie_Margolin @ThisIsZeroHour
“The Teenager” (h/t @maryheglar) is tenacious, motivated, and inspiring.
She’s also just getting started!
#ClimateWeek
explorethespaceshow.com/podcasting/jam…
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It's #ClimateWeek2019, so let's have a THREAD about carbon opportunity costs, since we can't keep warming below 2°C (let alone 1.5°) without halting deforestation - and probably reforesting large areas. How we produce and consume food has a large bearing on what's possible. 1/
In recent years, agriculture and associated land-use change have been responsible for roughly a quarter of total annual GHG emissions from all sectors. The data below are from 2010 (Source: sustainablefoodfuture.org). 2/
Those numbers above are from GHG emissions in a recent year. But massive amounts of former forest land have already been cleared for agriculture, which currently occupies nearly half of the world's vegetated lands. And agriculture remains the leading driver of deforestation. 3/
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Sept. 23, 2019 Here are a few stupid evil greedy selfish sick white men, Stephen Mnuchin, Wilbur Ross, Mike Pompeo, & Donald Trump walking out of Climate after only 10 mins for the press OP spouting, he is for clean air & clean water. What A Liar! Read on
Feb 16 2017 Trump signs EO to allow miners to dump their toxic chemical wastes into waterways.
Trump signed an order Feb 16, 2017 allowing mining companies to put their toxic wastes into waterways/our drinking water! The results of that action reported on Feb 20, 2019 chicagotribune.com/nation-world/c…
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1/ From @GretaThunberg "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. #ClimateWeek2019
2/ And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you! @SpreadEagleBear
3/ For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here and say you're doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight. You say you hear us and understand the urgency. @SeattleOnside
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