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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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.
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"
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.
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."
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!
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
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
@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"