Thread by @forresttdweller

"She regularly rages against the use of #fossilfuels but social media reveals that in recent years she left the UK to apparently spend many months travelling around India only to return here to start protesting. Pictures show her enjoying a lavish trip around the subcontinent" 🧵

2/ @DailyMailUK reports that I "have lived most of my life in India, where I bought up my children." Then claims my social media shows me "enjoying a lavish trip around the subcontinent" in the same article.

3/ The TRUTH. I have lived in India for 17 years. My children grew up there. We fear our future in the global south. This is a #ClimateCrisis. I have the right to protest in the UK. I will not watch India, my home, burn. I will not watch the UK, my home, burn 🔥🌍

4/ On 20/7/22 I wrote... "I am here. I've been sitting for hours on the M25. Both north and southbound are closed. Why am I here? I believe in the truth. I seek justice. Not for myself but for the billions of humans, animals, trees,birds, flowers, children, our descendents...

5/ ...of the present, our blessings of the future. We have fucked up big time. Yet. We still do not own it. We lie, we cheat, we want more, just a little bit more. But now we are reaching tipping points and the survival of humanity and biodiversity is at risk. We are only...

6/ ...stewards, caretakers of this earth. I feel we are not responsible enough to receive this gift any longer. Did you trade a shiny car for the life of a child in Africa? Are you murdering a mother of four in India for your ludicrously expensive diesel? That's what I do every..

7/ ...day, I turn on the lights and a farmer drops dead in my soul. It is for us to choose what is right. Look deep into the darkness of your tainted, angry, selfish soul. Why are you so rich with apathy? Who do you think you are to be ahead of the game, when they didn't ask to..

8/ ...play or even learn the rules of your economic dream? What gives you the right to slaughter the dreams of a South American school girl? Do you really only give a fuck about you and yours? If I gave you the weapon would you kill them yourself? They have a human right...

9/ ...to justice. When will you sacrifice your comfort zone? To those on the bridge swearing at me, the ones who deny. You only know how to be loud. You only know how to throw vulgar words my way. You do know how to love yourself enough to bless each syllable with power...

10/ ...You do not have a voice. You have a bitterness created from your unjust society, twisted into words that do not empower. We have a choice to use our voice with integrity, humility and unconditional love.
Learn the truth about #ClimateJustice
Watch "Big Oil Vs the World"

11/ That concludes my truth.
Recommended #CivilResistance cell reads...
#1984 #TheOverstory
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Inspired by...
@JustStop_Oil
@XRebellionUK
@RogerHallamCS21
@GhostPanther
@guardian
@GaryLineker
@GeorgeMonbiot
@ClimateHuman
@jeremycorbyn
@antonioguterres
@ScientistRebel1