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Apr 11, 2020 6 tweets 2 min read Read on X
I feel I have lived that same Easter weekend many years now: boats in distress and not enough help at all, while technically help is available.

Right now, not a single rescue ship bc of Covid-19. Refugees still flee the civil war and that won't stop. /1
Apart from rescue capacity we also lack the possibility to see and report what is going on in the Med. This week a Maltese gov vessel refused to rescue and destroyed the engine of a rubber boat as reported in a call to Alarm Phone. /2
What worries me at large is that authorities use the health crisis as an argument to prevent rescue vessels to go out at sea or find safe ports. Even though Libya now declared it's ports unsafe due to war activities and shelling. /3
European authorities must be willing and able to deal with several crises at the same time: apart from a health crisis we still have wars and conflicts, CO2 concentration reached 418 ppm, biodiversity in decline. /4
What stands in the way is a global crisis of inequality and a crisis of power distribution which actively prevents any solution to these solvable problems. It's not that EU authorities don't understand these problems, they do not want to solve them. /5
And I do not want to play down the tremendous crisis which Covid-19 is and will be in the next months. I am deeply sorry for the huge personal loss of so many lives and I am appalled by the lack of solidarity within the EU, particularly by German and Dutch governments.

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Jan 15
Ich war heute bei #B1501: Das war eine Mischung aus allem Möglichen. Teils Bauern, teils Ampel-muss-weg-Kram, der nix mit Bauern zu tun hatte. #Lindner wurde ausgebuht und das zu Recht. Warum? Eine Menge von Demonstrierenden in Berlin. Rechts unten im Bild ist Carola Rackete. In der Mitte halten Menschen ein Plakat hoch, auf dem steht "Landwirt:innen gegen RECHTS".
Zunächst mal ist die Landwirtschaft genau wie Gesundheit, ÖPNV oder Bildung fundamental für unsere Gesellschaft. Die aktuelle Agrarpolitik funktioniert nicht, weder ökologisch noch sozial.
Ökologisch haben wir eine riesige Nitratbelastung im Wasser und den Böden durch Tierhaltung/Gülle, Verlust von fruchtbaren Humusböden, die Nutzung von fossilem Dünger verursacht hohe CO2-Emissionen, die Produktion von Tierfutter im Ausland führt zu Rodungen von Urwäldern usw.
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Jan 5
Rechte und AfD versuchen für ihre eigenen Zwecke in die #Bauernproteste einzusteigen und die Bauern stehen zunehmend als rechte Deppen da. Ihre Anliegen hört niemand mehr. Aber warum sind die Bauern so wütend? 1/
Es gibt einen ganzen Blumenstrauß verschiedener landwirtschaftlicher Probleme. Die Agrarpolitik der letzten Jahrzehnte wurde maßgeblich von CDU/CSU gemacht und sie wurde schlecht gemacht. 2/
Statt jetzt sozial gerecht mit einer Vermögensabgabe anzufangen, Kerosinsteuer einzuführen, Inlandsflüge zu verbieten, SUVs zu begrenzen, Dienstwagenprivileg abzuschaffen, Tempo 130 festzulegen, den ÖPNV zukunftsfähig zu machen,fängt die aktuelle BuReg aber bei den Falschen an 3/
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Nov 28, 2023
Yesterday I visited the 'Collettivo di Fabbrica' at the former factory of automotive supplier GKN near Florence. It's a laboratory for the social & ecological restructuring of industry - driven by workers & activists. Here's why:
🧵 (1/9) Carola Rackete and the workers of Insorgiamo.
About 2.5 years years ago, around 500 GKN workers received their redundancy letters as the company was taken over by a British private equity fund.
The alleged reason: the ecological transformation of the car industry. But the workers called a permanent works meeting, which continues to this day. They took control of their own factory. And they developed production alternatives for an ecological conversion:
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Jul 17, 2023
Leute, ich kandidiere für's Europaparlament! Damit habt ihr nicht gerechnet? Dann ratet erstmal mit wem... mit @dieLinke! Warum es mich als Bewegungs-Ökologin parteilos nach Brüssel zieht und weshalb wir die LINKE #GemeinsamNeu machen müssen, möchte ich hier erklären. Ein Portrait von Carola Rackete mit dem Zitat: „Das sozial-ökologische Desaster in dem wir leben, lässt sich aus dem Parlament allein nicht beheben. Ohne eine stabile linke Partei aber auch nicht. Deswegen müssen wir DIE LINKE jetzt #GemeinsamNeu machen - dafür will ich in's Europaparlament."
Vorab: diese Entscheidung ist mir nicht leicht gefallen. Im letzten Jahr habe ich mich wiederholt gefragt, wo der beste Platz im Ökosystem unserer Bewegung für mich ist. Wo kann ich in den nächsten Jahren des #ClimateEmergency den größten Unterschied machen?
Ich habe mich mit vielen Freund:innen beraten und die Entscheidung auch nicht allein getroffen. Vielmehr soll dieses Mandat ein kollektives Projekt sein – auch wenn ich dabei besonders in der Öffentlichkeit stehe. Warum tue ich mir das an?
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Apr 12, 2023
Some words – indeed a long 🧵 – on Antarctica, having recently returned from a fin whale population survey on RV Maria S Merian.

Thoughts on krill, climate and green-washing. And what to do.

Pictures by whale scientist @kenneders 1/x Image
Twitter crashed twice while I was writing on this thread so I gave up and will write it piece by piece.. sorry. 2/x
First, a bit of background on the recovery of fin whales decades after the end of whaling - it's written by @WinstonC_S and covers a study from last year by our chief scientist @DrHelenaHerr working at AWI and University of Hamburg 3/x nytimes.com/2022/07/07/cli…
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Dec 20, 2022
A couple of words on the biodiversity treaty negotiated in Montreal. #COP15montreal

It could have failed completely so an agreement is a good step.

However, it is not legally binding and therefore different from Paris Agreement. 1/x
It is also not the first such agreement though many news outlets claim that..

In 2010 in Aichi 20 quite good targets were set, however, none of them were achieved until 2020.

Similar to climate treaties the problem is implementation not primarily targets. 2/x
Public focus mainly on one target to protect 30% of the Earth' surface. Without stopping the drivers of biodiv loss this alone will be insufficient.

Logically, agribusiness, overfishing, pollution etc must be greatly reduced everywhere not only in "protected areas".

3/x
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