If I were teaching a course on the climate crisis I'd assign this as the core text.
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
4. For thinking through why net-zero is not enough and what is required for a just-transition check out @hollyjeanbuck's powerful book.
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
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I’m thrilled to announce @TristramWyatt, @CharlieJGardner & my new paper in @RSocPublishing 'Open Science'
In this paper we set out our case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency.
A short🧵
2/ We argue that scientists & scientific institutions can have the maximum amount of influence by lending their support to social movements pressing for action, joining as active participants & considering civil disobedience.
3/ Einstein once said ‘Those with the privilege to know have a duty to act’.
But act how?
If scientists want to be more than chroniclers of a preventable tragedy, and to see science-informed policies enacted, we need to seriously reexamine our theories of change.
One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.
Here's a 🧵 explaining why...
2/ As the planet warms we see extreme events become far more common, a heatwave that used to have a 1% chance of happening in any year, becomes a 10% chance.
That is the return period is reduced massively.
3/ These changes are very sudden and dramatic.
As this study by the @metoffice shows "we find that events that would occur twice a century in the early 2000s are now expected to occur twice a decade"
Let's pause & reflect a minute about what this shocking picture of @GretaThunberg 's arrest tells us about the current state of #climate politics.
A short 🧵on some key lessons we can take from this image
2/ What a difference 6 years makes!
In many ways climate politics is in a very different place to how it was when @GretaThunberg first started her strikes outside the Swedish parliament in the summer of 2018 to try and put the #ClimateCrisis on the agenda
3/ Largely as a result of protest movements #climate has now entered mainstream debate.
And the stakes are clearer than ever.
Following the latest @IPCC_CH report in 2022 @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres made clear we are faced with a 🚨"Code Red for humanity"