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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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May 12
I got the chills reading @GeorgeMonbiot's latest column on the draconian police powers of the new ‘Public Order Bill’.

But to understand how we got here we need to take a step back and look at the way these laws have been called into being. It's a wild story🤯

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@GeorgeMonbiot 2/ Let's start in May 2019:

Following @XRebellionUK's actions in London- in which thousands of peaceful protestors engaged in the largest acts of civil disobedience in the UK for a generation- Parliament declares a #ClimateEmergency.

A key demand of the protestors had been met Image
@GeorgeMonbiot @XRebellionUK 3/ The establishment was alarmed.

July 2019: Conservative think tank 'Policy Exchange' hastily put out a report concluding "legislation relating to public protest needs to be urgently reformed in order to strengthen the ability of police to place restrictions on planned protest" Image
Read 28 tweets
Apr 18
1/ Yet again @NickFerrariLBC shows he's extremely ill informed.

As anyone familiar with the facts knows, the activists' demands are entirely consistent with mainstream science, yet Nick is too lazy to inform himself.

So here's a🧵laying it out for him:
2/ Just last month hundreds of the UKs leading scientists made clear that:

"The UK should commit to preventing any new oil & gas field development."

Are they 'intellectually nuts" @NickFerrariLBC?

zero.cam.ac.uk/who-we-are/blo…
3/ This is so mainstream that even @fbirol, Executive Director of the @IEA, has said there "can be no new investment in oil, gas and coal"!

Is he "intellectually nuts" too @NickFerrariLBC?

theguardian.com/environment/20…
Read 9 tweets
Dec 2, 2022
The @OECD: "current scientific evidence unequivocally supports unprecedented, urgent and ambitious climate action to tackle the risks of climate system tipping points."
@OECD "Tipping points impacts will also cascade through socio-economic and ecological systems over timeframes that are short enough to defy the ability & capacity of human societies to adapt, leading to severe effects on human and natural systems"
@OECD "the existence of climate system tipping points means it is vital to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C, with no or very limited overshoot."
Read 6 tweets
Nov 9, 2022
The KEY question, I'm asked by students when I guest lecture about the #ClimateCrisis is 'but what can we do?'

So I recently rewrote my materials to try & tackle that question head on. Feel free to adapt them.

Buckle up - here's a LONG thread🧵about how we can fight back! Image
First, let's just recap and take in where we are:

Following the latest @IPCC_CH report @UN Secretary General @antonioguterres made clear this was a
🚨"Code Red for humanity"🚨 2/n Image
The @IPCC_CH report states clearly that we have a "brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all" 3/n Image
Read 75 tweets
Nov 7, 2022
This time last year I was one of 21 scientists arrested at #COP26 for a peaceful protest with @ScientistRebel1

Here's a clip of a very wet ☔️ me explaining the reason I took part in the action 💚

A year later & governments are still failing #COP27

@ScientistRebel1 You can read more about the action in this @Nature article ...

“We believe this is the first ever mass arrest of scientists over the climate crisis" - @CharlieJGardner

nature.com/articles/d4158…
One thing that has changed since last years #COP is that there has been an massive increase in activism by scientists - with many more mass arrests!

I highlight some key examples in this thread 🧵

Read 4 tweets
Nov 6, 2022
Unreal! Its 2022 & I'm still listening to #LauraKuenssberg framing today's debate as "can we afford to solve the #climate crisis?"

It feels like we're stuck in groundhog day for the past 20yrs!

Here's a Climate Economics 101🧵:

@bbclaurak @BBCJustinR
@bbclaurak @BBCJustinR Does anyone remember @lordstern1's review on 'The Economics of #Climate Change' published by @hmtreasury back in 2006?

It found: "the costs of stabilising the #climate are significant but manageable; delay would be dangerous and much more costly"

2/n
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/…
@bbclaurak @BBCJustinR @lordstern1 @hmtreasury A few years later @lordstern1 candidly stated in an interview that “Looking back, I underestimated the risks... This is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly... These risks for many people are existential"

3/n
climatechangenews.com/2013/01/28/nic…
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