Deputy director, Centre for Climate Change & Social Transformations @CAST_Centre (Tweets personal/unofficial)
#ActNow #ClimateEmergency
Jul 23, 2023 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
OK, let's get one thing very clear.
@grantshapps couldn't care less about @JustStop_Oil disruptions. He knows it's altogether minor and non-violent. Hell, there are loads of people in the current and former cabinets guilty of far worse.
No, what he sees is an *opportunity*...
... The Tories are hugely unpopular and rightly so. Their record and action on the climate crisis is pitiful. And by *pure coincidence* they have taken millions in party donations from oil and gas. But, hey, look over there: some orange-bibbed eco people! ...
Oct 23, 2022 • 37 tweets • 15 min read
Five of us scientists have had our case dismissed at Westminster magistrates court. Not even not guilty, simply no case to answer.
We were on trial for protesting UK govt’s rush for new oil & gas. Some background and context.
Long🧵1/ extinctionrebellion.uk/2022/10/21/bre…
In autumn of 2021, before COP26, 70 leading scientists including IPCC authors, wrote to the UK govt stating: “the science is clear on the need to end investment in new oil and gas development. Now is the time for bold political action.” 2/ independent.co.uk/climate-change…
