Wow!
The sea ablaze for 8 hours in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured.
n 1944, Winston Churchill described Nazi atrocities as "a crime without a name"
Soon after, the term 'genocide' was coined
Is it time to recognise ‘ecocide’ as an int’l crime?
And time for all of us to start getting active to protect our fragile planet?
“Lost somewhere between immensity & eternity is our tiny planetary home
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world
This pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
(Carl Sagan)
It’s because we love this planet so much, that we weep at its destruction
TBH, my heart breaks a little every day
But it also fills with joy
Our hearts are designed that way
They're built to break & they're built to fill with joy each day.
#ClimateEmergency #ecocide @AOC
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed” (Gandhi)
Someone accused me of “fuckwittery” for “equating a siingle gas link with ecocide”
But this isn’t about one leaky pipeline in #Mexico
It’s about the system (which we all participate in).
This lobbyist thinks he’s having a job interview
In reality, he’s being filmed by @UE journalists
He claims @exxonmobil “aggressively” fought science to deny climate change action in order to maximise profit & shareholder return & lobbied key senators.
Just days after the Gulf of Mexico fire, there’s been a massive explosion in the Caspian Sea
Local media report that the explosion happened at a gas/oil platform
But the State Oil Company claims it was a mud volcano
‘Twitter Volcanologists’, any views?
Meanwhile in Romania, the country’s largest oil refinery exploded in the city of Năvodari on the Black Sea ystdy
Do we really need to keep mining & drilling & burning
Water, land & air - our most essential birthrights - are being destroyed for profit.
In order to stand up for the truth, we must stand up for the truth-tellers
#StevenDonziger represented 30,000+ farmers & indigenous people from Ecuador in a case against #Chevron on to damage caused by oil drilling
@marwilliamson on what happened next👇
Last week, 2 environmental activists in Kosovo who raised environmental concerns, were sued for “defamation”
These cases illustrate the growing trend of powerful corporations to silence & intimidate activists, NGOs & journalists, to avoid public scrutiny
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”
Ecocide = “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe, widespread or long-term damage to the environment caused by those acts.”
Countries should adopt the definition & formalize it as an intnl crime
atmos.earth/ecocide-climat…
BEN OKRI: What we need now in this eleventh hour is the greatness of the human. We need to show that we are greater than all the brainwashing that makes us think that we can’t be the agents of change
PM: Whiff whaff piffle paff
#COP26 #ClimateCrisis #COP
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