How to stop freaking out in 2024 and tackle climate change 🌎 ⬇️

Step 1: Ditch the shame
Step 2: Focus on systems, not yourself
Step 3: Join an effective group
Step 4: Define your role
Step 5: Know what you are fighting for, not just what you are fighting against

🧵 Step 1: Ditch the shame.

As long as we are competing for the title of “greener than thou,” or are paralyzed by shame, we aren’t fighting the powerful companies and governments that are the real problem.

➡️And that’s exactly the way they like it.

♥️ I always make time for friends & family - even while balancing school, travel, and climate work

These are my tips to help you make time for your loved ones: ⬇️ 1. Prioritize your relationships:
Make your relationships with friends and family a priority in your life. This means carving out time in your schedule for socializing, and treating it with the same level of importance as other commitments such as work or exercise.

🔥 The train derailment and chemical spill in Ohio was the culmination of a long trend of cost-cutting in the rail industry

Thread ⬇️ This type of rail disaster does have precedent. The East Palestine derailment is not even the first vinyl chloride spill. In 2012, a train derailed and leaked 23,000 gallons of vinyl chloride into the creek in Paulsboro, New Jersey.

🛑 Trains are becoming less safe!

🧵 Why the Ohio derailment disaster could happen more often ⬇️ In 2013, a train derailment and subsequent fire in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killed 47 people and required all but three downtown buildings to be demolished for safety reasons.

🚨 This map shows the massive number of oil and gas pipeline spills across the United States 🧵 🗺 The map shows gas distribution spills, gas transmission spills, and oil spills since 2010

🚨 This is one of the deadliest environmental emergencies in decades and no one is talking about it

Thread ⬇️ Vinyl chloride is not only flammable, but it's also a brain, lung, blood, and liver carcinogen.

Authorities decided to burn hundreds of thousands of gallons of this chemical after a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio.

🚨 Iranian Environmental Defender - Niloufar Bayani - has been suffering in jail for 5 years Taking note of the pardons recently issued by the Iranian authorities, the United Nations Environment Programme calls for the safe return home of Ms. Bayani, and all the environmental conservationists imprisoned in Iran

⭐️ Top 10 Fully-funded Global Fellowships for Social Impact Leaders

Thread ⬇️ 1. Westerwelle Young Founders Programme 2023 (Fully-funded to Germany)
Details: bit.ly/3HaRKZW
Deadline: February 15

2. Savvy Global Fellowship 2023 for Aspiring and Early-Stage Entrepreneurs (Fully-funded)
Details: bit.ly/40B3eh6
Deadline: Rolling

🚨 Exxon is quietly killing its most heavily publicized climate solution After advertising its efforts to produce environmentally friendly fuels from algae for over a decade, Exxon is stopping the program

FREE Sustainability Courses from the United Nations 🇺🇳

Thread ⬇️ 1. My Sustainable Living Challenge: lnkd.in/exai6_yU

2. Sustainable Lifestyles: lnkd.in/es_ksmNU

3. Digital Sustainability Learning Path: lnkd.in/e3Vu_842

At 20 years old, I’m the youngest United Nations advisor

Here’s what I do ⬇️ Attend meetings with UN officers and country ambassadors to exchange ideas on how the United Nations can drive climate ambition and action to steer the planet to a path of sustainability by keeping global warming under 1.5°C