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We've been tracking Koch money for years.

This #EarthDay2022, don't let corporations tell you plastic straws are the problem. Koch's massive network has banked on climate chaos for decades.

Here is a greatest-hits timeline of Koch’s war on climate action.🧵
1970s📍

Shortly after Charles Koch took control of his father’s oil refining empire in 1967...

a Union oil rig off the coast of Santa Barbara spills 80,000+ gallons of oil into the channel, leading to the first Earth Day on 4/22/1970.

Weeks later, Nixon creates the EPA.
1971📍

Tobacco lawyer Lewis Powell pens a secret blueprint for corporations to dominate US democracy.

Charles Koch writes that the Powell memo did not go far enough.

No one has played a longer or deeper role implementing this distorting vision.
kochdocs.org/2019/06/07/cha…
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1/. #THREAD (read until the end)

As people around the world mark #EarthDay a QUESTION...

Would you buy grapes that were individually wrapped in plastic?
#ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticpollution #ClimateJustice #EarthDay2022 #ClimateActionNow
2/. “Every single grape wrapped in plastic! What the actual *#@*!”

You’d probably be outraged like my friend Diane was! #FridaysForFuture #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #plasticfree #EarthDay #EarthDay2022
#ClimateMarch #ClimateJustice
3/. CONFESSION

The individually wrapped grapes iaren’t real

The plastic wrapped passion fruit are

Britain is the world’s 2nd biggest producer of plastic per person

Plastic waste kills millions of birds, sea mammals & fish each year
(Clip @GreenpeaceUK)
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Heute ist #EarthDay2022, es ist der 52. "Earth Day". An keinem Ereignis lassen sich Grundprobleme der Umwelt- und Klimadebatten besser darstellen. Deshalb hier ein paar Schlaglichter ⤵️
Am ersten „Earth Day“, dem 22.4.1970 (Symbolfoto war „Earth Rise“⤴️), protestierten in den USA in Hunderten Städten 20 Millionen Menschen, es war die Geburt der globalen Graswurzelbewegungen für Umweltschutz. Sie war dringend notwendig.
Smog in Großstädten, Ölkatastrophen, Müllberge in der Natur, Artensterben, Waljagd, Gifte auf Feldern und Wiesen – gravierende Umweltprobleme waren schon lange nicht mehr zu verleugnen. Die Graswurzelbewegungen hatten bald Erfolg.
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Everywhere you look across the internet today:
It's Earth Day! Here are a bunch of virtue-signaling articles you can read to both give and assuage crippling guilt over which nothing you have much control!

Then there's me, celebrating Earth Day KMC1230-style: with a meme thread!
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Gm!
Hope you all had a chill 4/20 🔥

Blazing into the next event this week as we're celebrating World Earth Day! 🌲

Obviously some correlation between crypto and CO2 emissions..
What can crypto do for sustainability?

🧵 ⬇️
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If you’re hooked on Metaverse, AutoChess games like @TFT & @AutoChess2019 and care about the environment – Check out @WeArePlanetMojo

For every Mojo NFT sold, a tree will be planted in a region of the buyers choice.

@TFT @AutoChess2019 @WeArePlanetMojo 2/
The team consists of industry veterans from LucasArts, EA & Activision and is backed by great VC’s.

Mojo NFT Minting starts May 9th. Champions and Land will be up for grabs at a later date! Image
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Alrighty... Let's do this.

One ♥️ = one #EarthDay2022 climate action
1. Ginormous electric SUVs and trucks are to sustainable mobility, what 'natural gas' is a bridge to clean energy.

Buy a leaf.

vice.com/en/article/3ab…
2. An e-bikes or e-cargo bikes for clunkers policy would be incredibly effective for reducing VMTs in urban areas.

Sadly, no US city seems motivated to lead on that.
reuters.com/technology/tra…
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🌎 It’s #EarthDay but the birds and bees of Britain are on the decline — and most people haven’t even noticed bigissue.com/news/environme…
🐝Biodiversity is the variety of life in an ecosystem.

Britain has lost half its biodiversity in the last couple of hundred years.

We’re in the bottom 10% of countries in the world and last in the G7. Last. #EarthDay2022
bigissue.com/news/environme…
🦋 Worse yet, we can’t be certain about the scale of loss.

Most biodiversity data is collected by volunteers, who flock towards charismatic creatures like butterflies and bees. But data for less popular species like spiders and wasps is seriously lacking.
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Per #EarthDay, in cui sarete sommersi di consigli, azioni, buone pratiche, eccovi uno spunto diverso. Vi siete mai chiesti perché l’azione climatica non viene messa in pratica nonostante le evidenze scientifiche? Certo manca la volontà politica. E certamente questo è un tema🧵
ancora divisivo. Ma perché? Negli anni si è passati dal negazionismo climatico ad una tecnica più subdola, che punta invece sul minimizzarne gli effetti, ritardare le azioni politiche, dividere l’opinione pubblica.👇aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/21…
Il tutto per continuare col cosiddetto business as usual. È quello che il climatologo @MichaelEMann nel libro “La nuova guerra del clima” chiama “inattivismo”. Non è più tempo di negare il cambiamento climatico: oggi invece è in atto una solida campagna di distrazione di massa🧵
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NEW: Gov. Pete Ricketts (R-Neb.) hosts the "Stop 30x30 Summit" in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 22. The 30x30 plan has a goal of protecting at least 30% of America's lands and waters by 2030. Yes, it’s really being held on #EarthDay2022.
#ClimateEmergency
exposedbycmd.org/2022/04/19/rep…
American Stewards of Liberty, a Texas-based nonprofit dedicated to protecting private property rights, fighting the “radical environmental movement,” & delisting endangered species, has organized and promoted the Summit.
On the agenda are Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), who introduced the 30 x 30 Termination Act in May 2021 in their respective congressional chambers.
documentcloud.org/documents/2166…
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We’re THRILLED to return with a new podcast season of "Stories from Home: Moving the Just Transition," that grounds us in the history of #ClimateJustice and in present day #JustTransition organizing. 🎤

STAY TUNED for the release of Episode 1 this Sunday, February 20! 📻🌻
Each episode of "Stories from Home" will deep dive into different topics – from the importance of community controlled climate solutions, to what is a false solution, to art & organizing, to how we relate to one another in just relationship & just what is energy democracy anyway?
Our host Keenan Rhodes, along with #ClimateJustice leaders, will serve as our guides and teachers. In the 1st episode, “The Roots of Climate Justice,” we travel from Indianapolis, to Puerto Rico, North Carolina to Mississippi, California & beyond.
TUNE IN this Sunday, Feb.20 🌻
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