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China's annual emissions are huge and their plans for coal-fired power stations are incompatible with a habitable planet.

Are you a leader of a Global North country, wondering how you can persuade them to do better?

IDEAS... 💡🧵 Chinese coal fired power stations
First up, make sure your per capita emissions are lower than theirs - looking at you, USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Japan and many others. Canadian tar sands
Also remember the Global North's historic emissions are off the scale, and almost all that carbon you burnt in the last 200 years is still in the atmosphere.

Not much you can do about that now except decarbonise as quickly as possible to atone for past sins. chart of historic global CO2 emissions from Our World In Dat
So next, make sure you're not doing anything you might want to ask China to refrain from.

You're not drilling for oil or building pipelines or coal mines or expanding airports or building roads or new killing machines are you?

Otherwise it's "Do as I say, not as I do". line three pipeline
Won't it be a disaster if China develops an appetite for meat like the USA's?

Yes, but it will also be a disaster if Global North countries continue with high carbon diets, so what are you doing to make the shift? factory farmed chicken in the USA
Does your country import loads of crap no-one needs from China by fossil-fuelled ships and planes? Yes? Why not stop? dolls' heads in a Chinese toy factory
Does your country have a plan to slash emissions in line with limiting global heating to 1.5°C?

Unless you are @barrowpresident of the Gambia, the answer is no, so why not get your own house in order?

edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/wor…
P.S. Some of the most populous parts of China are set to be decimated by climate breakdown. #NoOneIsSafe. #NowhereIsSafe.

news.mit.edu/2018/china-cou…
Solidarity with those brave Chinese people engaging in activism for a liveable planet. 💚✊💚

theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…

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The government is changing, but there is #NoChangeForColine

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@MinColonna Coline had been working in Senegal as a physiotherapist for the past year. On November 17th, Coline was arrested at a peaceful demonstration calling for the opposition leader, Ousmane Sonko, to be able to stand in the general elections in Senegal.

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In Queensland Australia a storm that killed 7 has created $2Bn in damage.

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...the greenwaste across the city as a result of storms would fill up to 90 football fields, 2M high."
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What can we do about it?

Let's look at recent developments from around the world in just the last few weeks. 🧵
Every year, the floods in Bangladesh get a little worse.

theguardian.com/environment/20…
But sea-level rise will not keep "getting a little worse" - at some point, it's going to get a lot worse, quite rapidly.

nationalgeographic.com/environment/ar…
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You should have let us drill more say @Shell_Australia.
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