Filipinos do not deserve to wade through floods & be stranded on rooftops. We do not deserve to see entire communities swallowed whole. No one does. These storms are not “natural” disasters. They are caused by the fossil fuel industry & the profit-oriented global system. The Philippine national government is not doing enough to ensure proactive pro-people adaptation and structural resilience. We cannot have bandaid solution after bandaid solution. We need to put a stop to the imperialist plunder caused by environmentally destructive projects.

Severe tropical storm #PaengPH is devastating the entire Philippines. Over 97,000 families have already been affected, floods and landslides have taken the lives of many, & it is expected to worsen.

World leaders need to take the climate crisis seriously!
rappler.com/nation/weather… We need to ensure that our national leaders focus on the needs of the Filipino people, especially those most marginalized! We need to stop environmentally destructive projects, invest in and prioritize pro-people adaptation, and protect environmental defenders and activists!

Ilang linggo na lang, eleksyon na! Vote for # 16 @ColmenaresPH for Senator!!!
#WeWantNeri

In the time of the climate crisis, we need policy makers who have a track record of prioritizing the people & the planet!

Thread of a few of the things Neri has pushed for the environment: (either as a lawmaker or as an activist)

🌏 NDRRMC texts - I've been talking to a lot of communities, especially in the provinces and islands and they said this has helped them so much to know when to prepare and evacuate, especially since ABS-CBN got shut down.

#LetTheEarthBreath & #ClimateCrisis are trending because of the #ScientistProtest but people are saying that the answer to the climate crisis = deleting emails & unplugging electronics.
Individual change will never be enough while we're in this imperialist, profit-oriented system 1. Only 100 companies are responsible for over 70% carbon emissions driving the climate crisis.

This means that multinational companies, especially the fossil fuel industry, need to be stopped. They have the biggest responsibility & need to be held accountable for their actions.

We must be very careful with our messaging to make sure that we don't add to the narrative that it's "scarier" that privileged people are the ones who are unsafe.

Be concrete and clear with our narrative: climate justice means NO ONE is left behind, especially the marginalized.

https://twitter.com/chilledasad100/status/1417057965727703042

I get why it feels scarier for Global North people. It's because it's finally the people in your bubble of privilege. But that's the point, when we use the "no one is safe anymore" narrative to jolt people awake, it adds to the narrative that you should be more afraid & care more

The "crisis" nature of climate change isn't just about extreme weather events, floods, droughts, typhoons, fires, etc; which are all pretty bad already. A bigger part of it is how most of impacted communities cannot / can barely recover & bounce back and aren't prepared for it It's about how we don't have mechanisms in place to adapt & develop with climate change in mind, especially for those most economically marginalized (often tied to other socio-economic crises) and about how how we're systemically kept from having these mechanisms.

The climate crisis is here, there's never been a doubt about that. Now we see it in the Global North too. Here are some thoughts and fears that came out with the recent news of the climate crisis impacting industrialized countries historically responsible for the climate crisis: time to come together, as one community and fight for climate justice alongside each other, letting the most marginalized sectors of every country, community, and of our society lead the way

Remember:

1. These events aren't "natural," someone is to blame: the Global North leaders, fossil fuel industry, & multinational companies
2. The US military industrial complex is the single largest producer of ghg in the world (watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/fil…)
3. To avoid these events,

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1386042740136349700

3. those historically responsible, the US, EU & the Global North need to drastically reduce emissions TODAY
4. Most Affected Areas and Peoples (like BIPOC communities and the Global South) are experiencing hell TODAY and will be impacted the most despite contributing the least

9 thoughts on @seaspiracy: a🧵

many problematic things, some scientists said data presented was questionable, call to action was HORRIBLE
do I still recommend? maybe, only for the part where they showed large companies & colonialism (but there are others that expose this better) 1. it's SO white saviory*
it portrays overexploited communities as helpless or evil, from the music choice, to how this white man risks his life to go to communities, to the people interviewed. why did you not talk to local activists who have the strongest stories of resistance?