As the #greenlash delivers a blow to environmental politics & policy across Europe, will the movement realise the harm from its adoption of corporatist ecomodern lies so as to avoid economic justice being the centrepiece of a serious green agenda? 🧵 In reality, to cope with & reduce ecological damage, & its already-apparent impacts on peoples lives, such as food prices, modern societies must power down & consume less, with the rich being made to go first. Anything other than that will be rejected in grossly unequal societies

This tweet won't be liked now but will age well. Like all past promises, future funds 4 #LossAndDamage won't appear, or be deducted from other development funds, or made as loans, & much of it will end up in the pockets of the rich in North & South #cop27 jembendell.com/2022/11/18/cap… That is NOT cynicism, but an extrapolation into the future based on empirical analysis of past rich world promises on adaptation & mitigation funding. It is NOT cynical to reject elite hype & uphold the critique of climate finance from the real grassroots ienearth.org/wp-content/upl…

Filling out a survey from #cop27 organisers & explaining why I didn't use their unethical & intrusive phone app. For @UNFCCC to consent to such behaviour by a host is a gross disregard of principles agreed by the UN since 2003 at @WSISprocess. There should be accountability in UN The UN's declaration of principles says "governments, and other stakeholders, should actively promote user education and awareness about online privacy and the means of protecting privacy" - so that's not accessing private data of attendees of UN events
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Don't blame #Putin or #Covid for your sky-high grocery bill. Blame the elites who collude with the biggest scam in history, involving #CentralBanks and their friends in finance, under the cover of the pandemic
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wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Responding_to_… Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, #CentralBanks in the West began pouring trillions into the coffers of large corporations, making their #stockmarket friends rich while making us poorer through high #inflation
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Dear #TradeUnion movement, New data from Israel shows Pfizer Vax protection may not last so won't prevent a future wave. We urgently need govts to change labour laws to empower symptomatic staff (prior to testing) to protect others by staying off work without loss of pay or job That doesn't mean a new lockdown, but empowering staff to make wise choices despite having poor job security or zero hour contracts. That may mean employers need support for the costs. Treating people like adults not idiots :-) #FreedomToCare

Crikey...
Time for a shift in strategy for the Autumn, to better protect the vulnerable & empower staff so when they're symptomatic (prior to testing) they protect others by staying away from work/crowds/enclosed spaces. Imagining vaccines are the answer may be a distraction

https://twitter.com/khoonseok/status/1426526706135826432

Although AZ, sinovac and sinopharm might not have as poor performance against new variants as does Pfizer. I'd like to see new info on that (not from the company initial effectiveness studies, but on current effectiveness against variants).

This screenshot of today's #Guardian shows headlines & pictures using 6 frames about the environment which suppress radical action. Can you spot them?
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m.facebook.com/story.php?stor… Framing 1: that the environmental crisis is about our children's future. Yes, it is. But the implicit message of focusing on that is that the environmental crisis is not about people's damaged and disrupted present.