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Brent Toderian
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I hear it was the largest individual #climateCrisis protest in history. Any city wish to challenge that? Regardless, 500,000+ people in #Montreal today for #ClimateStrike makes a POWERFUL statement that we’ve reached a real turning point toward #ClimateAction! Via @GretaThunberg
This makes me happy of many levels — including that #Vancouver showed up 100K+ strong for the @ClimateStrike, AND that citizens did it by showing how streets, bridges & our FUTURE are about people, not cars. #ClimateCrisis
Hat tip to @SimiHeer, great video!
You REALLY have to watch this — timelapse of #Vancouver’s remarkable #climatestrike march, 100K+ strong, across the Cambie Bridge from Vancouver City Hall to the downtown Public Library, Via @cbcnewsbc. You started this, @GretaThunberg. #ClimateStrike
And then Calgary’s Board of Education goes & does this. Wrong side of history, Calgary. #ClimateStrike #ClimateCrisis
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1. A thread on #NIMBY (not in my backyard) & change in cities:

First off, although it might feel that way, NIMBY isn’t unique to your city, & it’s definitely (probably) not worse in your city than anywhere else. It’s also not surprising, since it’s based on human nature.
2. #NIMBY isn’t surprising when you understand that it’s human nature, it’s normal, to fear change & to weigh potential loss more heavily than potential gain. So NIMBY should be expected because it can’t be avoided. It’s hard everywhere, & there’s no place that it doesn’t exist.
3. But #NIMBY needn’t be debilitating when it comes to smart, positive & badly-needed change in your city. Cities that are skillful & self-confident listeners can learn a lot from NIMBY fears, & that learning can help make decisions better & outcomes more successful.
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1. A thread on #Vancouver city-building, politics & bikes:

I’ve still got a lot of optimism about most of our new city council, but I’m still hearing the concern that they are trying too hard to distance themselves from work/directions of the #VisionVancouver terms of Council.
2. This may be particularly true regarding safe bike infrastructure, & the still badly needed work toward getting to the next level in bike mode share, & making our bike infrastructure safe & comfortable for all ages & abilities. See here for more on #AAA: fastcompany.com/90361034/if-on…
3. I’m not here to defend #VisionVancouver, but one thing that’s long been true here in #Vancouver is that new councils have generally built on past successes, rather than undoing or reversing (as we’ve unfortunately seen in many other cities). That’s how we’ve made progress...
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Brent Toderian
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It’s hard to believe this was ever a place for cars. The most interesting thing about the #TimesSquare transformation in New York by ⁦@MikeBloomberg⁩ ⁦@JSadikKhan⁩ & ⁦@citiesforpeople⁩ — it wasn’t sold as “place-making.” It was about TRAFFIC WORKING BETTER.
There’s lots of reasons why New York’s Bryant Park is one of the best people-places anywhere. But my favourite reasons are the many diverse well-defined “sub-spaces” as you walk around it; the massive number of moveable chairs; & the big beautiful shade trees on a hot, sunny day.
What is successful urbanism? If there’s a lot of people in a “public space” (it’s not actually public), is it a good place? New York’s new Hudson Yards development has been criticized by many urbanists, & defended by some, so I needed to see it myself. It raised many questions:
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350.org Europe
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THREAD: Wow. Just: wow. What an incredible day this was!

Just a week after a record 4 million people joined the #ClimateStrike on Sep 20, millions more took to the streets today.

The #GlobalClimateStrike now ranks as one of the largest coordinated protests in human history.
It really feels like we’ve entered a new era.

Today we were bold, rebellious, beautiful, strong & funny.

We wove together visions of climate, gender, social, migrant, racial & economic justice.

We were fearlessly clear: we're going to fold the status quo into a better world.
Here's how some of it went down:

Italy made people-powered history - from huge cities like Rome & Milan, to small towns & villages, market squares filled with TONS of people.

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DEVELOPING: Millions of people are expected to join demonstrations demanding action on climate change in cities around the world on Friday. nbcnews.to/2Az2b6l
WATCH: Climate strike protest in Luxembourg. nbcnews.to/30AyqMW

(Video: Sophie Wiessler)
WATCH: Thousands participate in climate strike protest in Warsaw, Poland.

nbcnews.to/30AyqMW

(Video: @Mr_Raitt)
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(Thread) Too often, people tell me, "OK, I believe in thermometers, and it's getting warmer. But how do we know it's caused by humans & not natural?"

As an archaeologist who studies humans in deep time, my answer is, "B/c then we'd be heading towards another friggin ice age"
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I'm serious, If it wasn't for humans, we'd be in the Holocene, a short period of warming (10,000 years-ish) between longer ice ages (90,000 years-ish)

The planet should be going (very slowly) into another ice age

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Climatologists in the 70s realized that, naturally, the Holocene represented a short warm period

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More people can be found going to a football match each weekend than are on any single #climateStrike action.

The numbers might make for exciting news footage. But they are meaningless.

The wider public has never been given the opportunity to express a view on climate policy.
Support for, and even *votes* for the kind of society-changing climate policies that are being demanded by the #climatestrike count for *nothing* if the public have no opportunity to express their dissent from that agenda.

The public have been given no choice whatsoever.
No criticism of the green agenda is allowed on university campuses, in academic literature, on BBC/Channel 4 News. If it is ever printed in newspapers, it results in complaints to the censor.

The public are not even given the opportunity to hear debate, let alone vote on it.
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Signe Dean
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So, so proud of my wonderful team at @ScienceAlert. Today, we stuck our necks out like never before, joining the global #ClimateStrike and sharing a series of personally important articles instead of the normal science news fare. Read them all at sciencealert.com
@ScienceAlert I can't easily pick a favourite, but I'll do a thread of them all after I get back home from the protests this afternoon 🌏
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Dipak Bhattacharya
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Regardless of the veracity of the terror threat in #Kashmir, that the government used it as subterfuge to prepare the ground for its dramatic steps is now beyond question.
Yet, among all the din of jubilation and paeans to the ‘making of history’, the fact that the government most probably misled the people over the nature of a terrorist threat is now almost an irrelevant aside. #Article370 #Article35A
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