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Five books you might like to read when asking what you can do about the #ClimateEmergency🧵

1. @ClimatePsych's excellent guide for turning anxiety into action Image
2. @swaziadam's awesome introductory textbook.

If I were teaching a course on the climate crisis I'd assign this as the core text. Image
3. For students wanting to deepen their understanding of society's response to the #ClimateCrisis then look no further than thus offering by Daniel Nyberg,@ChristopherWr11 & @VanessaMBowden Image
4. For thinking through why net-zero is not enough and what is required for a just-transition check out @hollyjeanbuck's powerful book. Image
5. For the days when it's all feeling a bit much, then treat yourself to an essay from this inspiring compendium edited by @RebeccaSolnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua Image

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More from @ThierryAaron

Dec 6
🚨There is so much #Climate news that it is often hard to zoom-out & see the bigger picture.

But every now & then you read a report that brings it all together & stops you in your tracks!

'Collision Course' by @djspratt is one such report. Here are its 10 key take aways: 🧵1/n Image
Global warming was 1.5°C in 2023, and 2024 will be hotter. In practical terms, the world has reached the lower end of the Paris target of 1.5-2°C of warming, and an accelerated warming rate is likely to continue to mid-century. Image
Many impacts are occurring #FasterThanExpected, and beyond model projections, including the severity and frequency of extreme events and system-level tipping points. What has happened in the past is no longer a good guide to what’s going to happen in the future. Image
Read 14 tweets
Nov 22
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?

Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.

First up @DoctorVive's indispensable guide to talking climate action & fighting fossil fuel propaganda 🧵 Image
@DoctorVive Next, if you need some inspiration then look no further than @mzjacobson's "No Miracles Needed" making the clear case that we have all the technology we need to fully decarbonise.

We can avoid catastrophe if we choose to! 🧵 Image
@DoctorVive @mzjacobson But we're not yet investing in the solutions anywhere near as much as we need to, why is that?

Brett Christophers meticulously shows that this is because the current economic system favours profit over people and planet 🧵 Image
Read 6 tweets
Nov 12
Tonight's @CU_EARTH lecture is being delivered by @dvdmckaydbv on '#Climate Tipping Points'

How close are they? &
What can we do about them?

🧵 1/n Image
The planet is heating rapidly due to burning fossil fuels

2/n Image
How hot it gets depends on how much carbon we emit

3/n Image
Read 18 tweets
Oct 30
I was delighted to be invited to speak to @BristolBioSci earlier this week, where I made the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.

I've decided to post my slides, so buckle up this is going to be a long thread🧵1/n Image
2/ Before I begin I would like to stress that these ideas have been developed with a great team of collaborators, who I'm extremely grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside.
@berglund_oscar @StuartBCapstick @EmilyCoxSussex @traceyaelliott @JKSteinberger @steviedubyu Image
3/ To start, its really important to remind ourselves of the context motivating the ideas being discussed - we're in a #ClimateCrisis !

Nearly every week we see new headlines like these. Image
Read 62 tweets
Oct 9
"The urgency of mitigating climate change cannot change financial facts" - @thetimes

Oh and which financial facts are those?!😠

(Time for an angry thread🧵) 1/n Image
2/ The FACT that the review by @lordstern1 concluded almost 20 years ago that...

"climate change is a serious global threat, & it demands an urgent global response" &

"the benefits of strong and early action far outweigh the economic costs of not acting"
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cm…Image
The FACT reported in a study by @PIK_Climate researchers this year, that (due to past inaction) the World economy is now already committed to 38 trillion dollars in damages each year by 2050!

pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…
Read 8 tweets
Sep 28
Hi @michaeljswalker & @AaronBastani thanks for the segment on the sentencing of @JustStop_Oil activists on @novaramedia y'day.

It was great this crucial topic was covered on your show, yet I couldn't help note some of your remarks lacked key context🧵1/n
2/You rightly highlight these remarkably long sentences are politically motivated &that protests by groups like JSO have been vital for driving forward UK climate policy

Thanks too for flagging the need to center climate politics on asymmetries in consumption of public resources
3/ Yet, there were 3 key mistakes that I felt were very problematic.

1st - @JustStop_Oil do have crystal clear demands.

You noted that their first demand has now been achieved, but they have two other demands... Image
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