Thread by @StephenWoroniec

Where do you put your effort as a human being in a rapidly destabilising world?

Peace? Development? Women's rights? Public health?

Or building a social movement large enough to counterbalance the #fossilfuel industry?

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt

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https://twitter.com/LUCSUS_LU/status/1103208952614084608

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt We start by centering the fact that some people have more skin in the game than others. Climate action is always intertwined with inequality.

@presidencymv faces an existential crisis from climate change. Now we're talking extinction, refugees, rights, in ways we can't imagine.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben So in this context, facing the vested interest of the most powerful industry in the history of mankind, that thinks nothing of deceit, when do we stop being polite? When do we turn to confrontation?

@ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead What's happening is that communities on the front lines of climate change are standing up and taking leadership roles. Women. Indigenous peoples. Kids.

Visions from climate models and sweat lodges converge on need for movement in face of crisis.

The world is different now.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead You have to be an unbelievable optimist to think we will limit climate change to a level that will save 90% of coral reefs. So we are taking action at the same time as we are making space for grief, and loss

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah Lots of insight here from @harnesk and Ulf.

#justtransition - a key plank for linking climate and labour movements - is being co-opted by forces friendly to the populist base and fossil fuel industry.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah @Harnesk A different take from @billmckibben. It's the change from fossil fuels to solar and wind that will enable power shift.
And current inequalities are nothing compared to the impacts of a 4oC world.

But we need to build the broad movements needed to counter fossil fuel industry.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah @Harnesk On similar lines, Bill is keen to mention the sheer amount of labour it will take to shift the trajectory of #energy systems

This feeds into the #greennewdeal discourse

But above all, we need to be prepared to get #uncomfortable, preparing for a different world.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah @Harnesk Another great point from Bill

There could have been a time when economic growth delivered welfare to many

But now such growth causes as many problems as it solves, and is highly concentrated.

But many people are stuck on growth as a reflex - even Labour unions.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah I'll add a couple of my own thoughts. 1st, in line with Hannah Arendt, what is important is creating a platform for people to establish areas of consent and dissent. Both are vital, even in a transition to zero carbon world.

So what is the politics of creating such a platform?

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah @Harnesk Secondly, and as @ExtinctionR have emphasised, when does the conversation move from climate to a broader unsettling of the narratives that have led us here, establishing a misguided sense of dominion over other humans and other beings.

@mayboeve @350 @Strike4Youth @sunrisemvmt @presidencymv @OoredooMaldives @visitmaldives @maldivescricket @350Australia @350action @billmckibben @ExtinctionR @SkaneXr @ExtinctionR_DE @XR_Sweden @GretaThunberg @GreenRupertRead @xr_cambridge @XRBristol @XRSwindon @ExtinctionMilan @XRHamont @XRQUEBEC @climate_sarah @Harnesk My last point. Climate change is an issue of human agency, in different ways. How it constrains the agency of vulnerable groups, how climate action is constrained by the sense of powerlessness & how ideas of agency change in the Anthropocene - towards collectives of mutual care.

Bill wrote about the event and the context in his own words- It was published in the New Yorker last night

newyorker.com/news/daily-com…