Thread by @StefSimanowitz

1/. My heart broke a little this morning

“The northern white rhino - which survived 55 million years & saw ice ages, earthquakes, meteor strikes & bore testament to innumerable historical changes - could not survive humans” @VertigoWarrior

This rhino is now functionally extinct

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1322963338985414658

2/. It’s because we love this planet so much, that we weep at its destruction

To be honest, 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

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1385253903940440065

3/. In 1944, 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 intl crime?

Is it time for all of us to start getting ACTIVE to protect our fragile planet?

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1385116253166219267

4/. “That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, every human being who ever was...the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

If you’ve never heard Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ speech from 1990, why not take 2.20 mins now👇

5/. Three passions have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, & unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind & the wanton destruction of our home: the Earth.

In the introduction to his autobiography, Bertrand Russell writes something along these lines

6/. “You ask what I’d do with rulers who believe themselves to be Gods. I'd take them to the ocean & sail them 3 days out to sea in my rickety skiff, & I'd watch their faces as a whale breached & barreled beside us.”

1m species are at risk of extinction!

7/. “How is it that scientists are not mystics? Cosmologists not poets? Biologists not shamans? How is it that those to whom the universe reveals such wonders, are not enraptured each day? And each night, how do they close their eyes on this?”
(E. Warner)

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1383692674566287368

8/. “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed” (Gandhi)

Humans are the only creature who cut down trees, make paper from them then write, “Save Trees” on the paper

An orangutan in Borneo defends its home from loggers.

9/. As the G7 Leaders’ Summit begins, @amnesty reveals how #G7 members are still subsidizing the coal, oil & gas industry, & have no credible plans to begin significantly phasing out fossil fuels during this decade
#ClimateAction #G7Summit @GretaThunberg
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

10/. Fossil fuels remain the main source of emissions driving the #ClimateCrisis, responsible, alongside industry, for roughly 89% of carbon dioxide emissions in 2018.

This thread👇by @astroehlein asks why our govts are subsidising the destruction of our planet
#G7Summit #G7

https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1401798911744954369

11/. The ocean covers more than 70% of our planet

It's our life source, vital for people & every organism on earth

But it is under threat from marine pollution, over fishing, ocean warming & acidification

8 June is #WorldOceansDay.
@IPBES @oceana @hrw