Thread by @StefSimanowitz

Wow!

The sea ablaze for 8 hours in the Gulf of Mexico after a pipeline ruptured.

n 1944, Winston 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 int’l crime?

And time for all of us to start getting active to protect our fragile planet?

“Lost somewhere between immensity & eternity is our tiny planetary home

There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world

This pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
(Carl Sagan)

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

TBH, 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.
#ClimateEmergency #ecocide @AOC

https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1400397881941626883

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

Someone accused me of “fuckwittery” for “equating a siingle gas link with ecocide”

But this isn’t about one leaky pipeline in #Mexico

It’s about the system (which we all participate in).

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

This lobbyist thinks he’s having a job interview

In reality, he’s being filmed by @UE journalists

He claims @exxonmobil “aggressively” fought science to deny climate change action in order to maximise profit & shareholder return & lobbied key senators.

Just days after the Gulf of Mexico fire, there’s been a massive explosion in the Caspian Sea

Local media report that the explosion happened at a gas/oil platform

But the State Oil Company claims it was a mud volcano

‘Twitter Volcanologists’, any views?

Meanwhile in Romania, the country’s largest oil refinery exploded in the city of Năvodari on the Black Sea ystdy

Do we really need to keep mining & drilling & burning

Water, land & air - our most essential birthrights - are being destroyed for profit.

In order to stand up for the truth, we must stand up for the truth-tellers

#StevenDonziger represented 30,000+ farmers & indigenous people from Ecuador in a case against #Chevron on to damage caused by oil drilling

@marwilliamson on what happened next👇

Last week, 2 environmental activists in Kosovo who raised environmental concerns, were sued for “defamation”

These cases illustrate the growing trend of powerful corporations to silence & intimidate activists, NGOs & journalists, to avoid public scrutiny
amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

https://twitter.com/exxonmobil/status/1334519248203493376

Ecocide = “unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe, widespread or long-term damage to the environment caused by those acts.”

Countries should adopt the definition & formalize it as an intnl crime
 atmos.earth/ecocide-climat…

BEN OKRI: What we need now in this eleventh hour is the greatness of the human. We need to show that we are greater than all the brainwashing that makes us think that we can’t be the agents of change

PM: Whiff whaff piffle paff
#COP26 #ClimateCrisis #COP