Guys, we've crossed the marsh and the Enbridge crossing point of the Mississipi is now occupied. I think this camp will last until Line 3 is stopped.#StopLine3
The scene here is solemn and joyful. Treaty rights need respecting and so do the laws of physics. Instead of 800,000 barrels of oil crossing this wetland there are thousands of people.
Indigenous leaders welcoming visitors now, and reminding them to go back to their communities and spread the word. #StopLine3@IENearth
"This is the most beautiful thing I've witnessed since Standing Rock and George Floyd," leader Dawn Goodwin explains
The police stood back today, at least so far. Too many people and too much good energy. And since Enbridge built a giant boardwalk through a marsh there's now a perfect tent platform on each bank of the Mississippi
Adding, this is what the Mississipi looks line here. Imagine a spill.#StopLine3
Elders now making tobacco offerings in the river
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@billmckibben @CherylBozarth The advantages of elevated CO2 for agriculture are even more important. Rising CO2 levels have raised global crop yields by at least 20%, and helped mitigate drought risks, which greatly improves global food security. sealevel.info/learnmore.html…
@billmckibben @CherylBozarth The best scientific evidence shows that CO2 emissions are beneficial, rather than harmful. Here are some studies: sealevel.info/negative_socia…
Since this once-spunky-if-odd website seems destined to collapse in on itself in the days ahead, becoming a black hole occupied by people who think the globe is cooling, polio wouldn't be so bad, and being awake is a terrible fate, I feel like getting a few things out while I can
So: Libraries are amazing. We have socialism for books, and it works.
New England. I mean, it's pretty wonderful. People look out for each other some. Also Norway.
I think this is the most important set of climate numbers I've come across in a decade. They are a Rosetta Stone for understanding why banks and the financial system are at the center of the crisis.
Right now capitalism is a suicide machine. newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Basically: banks take our deposits and lend them out to Big Oil. This releases more carbon than everything else the biggest companies in the world do. And if you have money in the bank, it may well be the biggest source of your emissions
HARVARD JUST DIVESTED FROM FOSSIL FUELS.
Because great activists never let up.
They don't use the word 'divestment,' but they said they have no direct investments left, will make no new ones, and that their indirect investments are in 'runoff mode' and will be allowed to expire
Yes, it's messy, and somewhat incomplete--the wonderful campaigners @DivestHarvard have a good response showing the places the university still must move. But the richest school on earth, which in 2013 pledged never to divest, has been forced to capitulate
I'm not even going to try and list the endless wonderful people who worked on this remarkable campaign--they are legion. And they have dealt a stunning blow to the fossil fuel industry. The smart money--even the conservative smart money--is fleeing Big Oil
An overlong thread of personal info, with one or two twists at the end.
First piece of 'news': I'm starting a free substack newsletter of my very own. It's going to be called The Crucial Years, because--well...here we are, between a rock and a hot place
That means today's installment of my New Yorker "Climate Crisis" will be the last, though I'll still write regularly for the magazine. So many thanks to everyone--esp. Virginia Cannon--who made it a pleasure, and to all those I got to pass the mic to! newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
So why am I joining @emorwee, @EricHolthaus , @drvolts, and so many others who pioneered this new form? In part because I'm also swinging back to more organizing. In fact, consider this the announcement of a *very* soft launch for ThirdAct.org thirdact.org
Walloping Wolverines!! Huge divestment news out of Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan--as heartland a school as you can imagine--announces plans to stop investing in fossil fuels! record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-s…
This is crucial because a) it's a big big endowment b) it's arguably, along with the already divested UC system, America's foremost public university and c) most of all, it's a huge reversal, won by courageous students. Here's what I mean:
When UMich refused to divest in 2015, the oil industry celebrated--indeed, they blazoned the words of its president, Mark Schlissel, across the front of their anti-divestment website, and they've been there ever since.