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Nov 11 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Today I was arrested for the second time trying to increase public urgency about Earth breakdown along with about 80 other scientists and many others. I was released and I’m fine, but tired. We worked very hard for weeks.
We’re on the right side of history, but it feels like we’re losing badly. We need reinforcements. Civil disobedients and others.
Meanwhile it doesn’t take a scientist to know that every summer will be hotter than the last and lots of things will break as a result. Planet-scaled things. The disregard in our society for this fundamental fact is still stunning to me.
Here's an article about our action to #BanPrivateJets
nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/…
If you would like to donate, here is a link to support @SRTurtleIsland (Scientist Rebellion in North America). This helps greatly with legal and other fees incurred.
gofund.me/d99129ed
Here is an unpaywalled link to the NYT article
nytimes.com/2022/11/10/us/…
Here's a Guardian article on @ScientistRebel1 action #BanPrivateJets #EmergencyMode theguardian.com/world/2022/nov…
Here are the words that came out after I was locked on. I had so much adrenaline due to a confrontation with a security guard outside of the doors a minute earlier that I could barely think.
The guard was 20 feet in front of the door as me and 3 other activists approached, and he challenged us. We gave some bs about going to our private jet as he walked in front of us so he knew we were up to something but as soon as he was through the door we yanked them closed
I made that decision because otherwise there likely would have been no action. As I was chaining the doors shut he pulled from inside as hard as he could and this sliced my finger a bit. I don't blame him at all. I only blame the rich people who fly in and out of this airport
Here's a photo from right after I got out of jail yesterday. This morning I super glued it and it's doing well. We had quite a bit of superglue around! This is part of why the whole action felt really messy to me. We're doing our best, but climate civil disobedience isn't easy.
The previous risky action I did, my first arrest, on April 6, felt like profound solidarity and a rush of inner freedom (if that makes sense) and it was wonderful. This one felt like "why do I need to do this?!!" and "I wish I were home" and "someone needs to do this, so..." ♥️

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Nov 7
All right, I supect this account has been shadow-banned due to today's tweets getting about a fifth the engagement of normal. Maybe due to having a Mastodon handle in my name for a few days. Is anyone else clearly experiencing this?
This is part of what I mean when I say I'll stay active on twitter until I feel it is no longer tenable.
The effect is quite pronounced, because I have developed a very good sense concerning how certain tweets will perform, and we're talking about a factor of about 5. But at the same time you can't be totally sure.
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Nov 7
Some thoughts (and questions) on #COP27.
First, if no plan for quickly ramping down the fossil fuel industry comes out of the meeting, it's a failure. That's the bottom line. Fossil fuels are the cause. Ramping down that industry MUST be the very core of any solutions package.
Roughly 75% or 80% of global heating is from the fossil fuel industry while roughly 15% is from animal agriculture. These industries must be ramped down to stem the irreversible planetary damage. But they will fight - they are very rich and they give "donations" to politicians.
So there needs to be a clear step-by-step plan for ramping down the fossil fuel and animal ag industries. This conclusion is inescapable. And the rich countries of the Global North need to go faster than the poor countries of the Global South, for moral and practical reasons
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Nov 6
Musk's plan to shadowban all non-"verified" users will make Twitter completely pointless. As a matter of principle I will not pay $8/month to contribute my writing to Twitter. So much for "free speech"
It's just going to become an echo chamber for trolls, with ads from gun shops and Hobby Lobby. No thanks
If this happens, there are other platforms, and I'll have fun developing my voice on them. It's a shame, though. Twitter has been toxic, but it has also been a pretty incredible way to connect with activists and journalists around the world.
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Nov 3
I just voted, it took 5 minutes. Please vote, but do not think voting is enough when corporations and the rich have consolidated this much power, because when it's like this it's not a democracy. We need everyone to organize and help take back power from the rich.
Things are getting so bad that voting can feel pointless, but I don't think it's pointless. That's binary thinking... and in reality there are different levels of badness. Voting is clearly not enough, but I think it's nonetheless still very much worth doing.
There are so many things that need to change, and it feels like we're sliding in the wrong direction on so many fronts. Voting took me 5 minutes, whereas maybe I spend 30+ hours per week on activism in various guises. Plus I actually like voting. The civility, the community of it
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Oct 19
So, um, did @theAGU ever end up severing its ties with Exxon and other fossil fuel industry entities? This is from way back in 2016. @NaomiOreskes @MichaelEMann
eos.org/opinions/agu-s…
I'm wondering what ended up happening because I can't find the answer, including on @theAGU website. I think it's very important for institutions like the AGU and universities to completely and publicly sever ties with the more-than-bad-acting fossil fuel industry at this point.
Apparently no, @theAGU still has its cozy fossil fuel connections. Colleagues, we will need to raise this quite loudly at #AGU2022
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Oct 18
To the conspiracy theorists saying the Soup Van Gogh action was "funded by an oil heiress to make climate activists look bad," you DO realize that the action cost all of the price of a can of tomato soup, don't you?
Also I've known the director of the Climate Emergency Fund for years, and there's no one more dedicated, down to her bones, to stopping Earth breakdown. Unlike almost every politician, CEF would never take money from the fossil fuel industry.
On the other hand, someone who was born into fossil fuel money and feels bad about it and wants to do some good - I have empathy for that. It's completely different than "the fossil fuel industry." And climate activists are up against perhaps the richest industry on Earth.
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