Trying everything to give my children a future. Except violence.
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Just compiling some twitter threads I've put together recently.
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Joe Taylor retweeted
@JohnHealey_MP I am livid about Jackdaw - More emissions! Shell pays little/no UK taxes, UK taxpayers have funded their new gas rig & the new Adura structure shields future profits. Few jobs, 2-6% of our gas needs. Who benefits? SHELL! NO ROSEBANK @StopCambo @AlisonJThompson
Joe Taylor retweeted
Jackdaw is justified because we'll use the gas in the UK. Rosebank is justified because we'll export the oil. And our children's future is being destroyed.
Ministers are considering approving the Rosebank oilfield as it won’t breach the UK’s targets - the emissions will all be abroad
Who knew the atmosphere respected national borders? Perhaps we can solve the climate crisis by outsourcing the entire thing
theguardian.com/environment/…
Joe Taylor retweeted
How did these two giant boulders end up atop a 15m cliff in Eleuthera, Bahamas?
One theory: superstorms caused by an AMOC disruption at the end of the last interglacial.
We're entering another AMOC disruption now - with unfathomable consequences.
ALT The photo shows the boulders knowns as the “cow," left, and the “bull” on top a 50-foot cliff on the Bahamian Island of Eleuthera. (Alessio Rovere, MARUM and ZMT)
Joe Taylor retweeted
Plants feed the world while animal farming destroys it.
Livestock uses about 80% of the world’s farmland but provides only 17% of our calories and just over a third of our protein. Pathetic.
Imagine what we could do with even a fraction of that land back.
ALT factory farmed cows
Joe Taylor retweeted
My first piece for the Guardian on why the Serbian student movement should be studied accross the globe:
"The WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange once told an interviewer in Belgrade that Serbia was “a country where the future happens first”."
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Joe Taylor retweeted
Sorry, but this is absolute nonsense. The reason people haven’t acted on climate change is because the massive amount of disinformation being pumped out from most of the media that for decades has said it’s probably not true.
The opposite is true. This woolly false hope forced positivity mentality is exactly why people don’t understand it’s the existential life-and-death-billions-of-us-at-risk crisis that it is.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Joe Taylor retweeted
All Brazilians need to see this.
If the Brazilian Amazon gets much smaller, its whole system will tip and much of it will become savannah. Catastrophic for Brasil and the whole world.
In other words, if Bolsonaro Jr wins the election, the Brazilian Amazon is doomed.
ALT Graph of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon under different presidents
Joe Taylor retweeted
After the Southport stabbings, imam Adam Kelwick took burgers and chips to a crowd outside his Liverpool mosque and ended up hugging one of them. Since then he’s taken protesters’ families and Muslim families on the same coach trips.
Real connections between people beat hate.
ALT Imam Adam Kelwick hugs a protestor outside his mosque
Joe Taylor retweeted
This is Joel. He used be an airline pilot. First he gave up flying for his holidays but kept flying planes. Eventually, he couldn't deny the damage the aviation industry is causing anymore, so he quit his job.
If Joel can give up flying, so can you.
Joe Taylor retweeted
BREAKING: Amazon deforestation has fallen to its lowest levels since records began.
If Lula retains the presidency, the Amazon could be saved.
ALT BBC News: Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms A toucan flies from a tree trunk with lush greenery of the Brazilian Amazon in the background
Joe Taylor retweeted
Anyone wondering how to build better democracy in @TheGreenParty or more widely should read this.
@ZackPolanski @sianberry @carla_denyer @AdrianRamsay @rachelmillward @MothinAli
Joe Taylor retweeted
Even seasoned climate activists don't know about the very near term (1.5-2 degrees warming) tipping point risks of the AMOC collapse for Europe and the rest of the world. This fact is terrifying.
Joe Taylor retweeted
Speaking tomorrow at New Scientist Live with Profs Behrens & Seddon.
The Paris climate challenge is not a matter of urgency, but of emergency. Urgency seeks to accelerate change; emergency demands a fundamentally different policy & technology agenda.
live.newscientist.com/speake…
Joe Taylor retweeted
Did anyone see this amazing clip from DIGGER? #TomCruise
Joe Taylor retweeted
It's most important policy set by @TheGreenParty conference.
While Labour suggest stocking up on tins, Greens would start a Strategic Food Reserve - like all sensible governments. Plus fair minimum farmgate prices and the option of temporary price caps on essentials in a crisis.
ALT Switzerland's strategic food reserve
Joe Taylor retweeted
If you join @TheGreenParty, you can propose a new policy. If enough members support your motion, it will be debated at conference. If conference votes for it, it becomes Green Party policy.
It's not a perfect system but it's democratic, unlike other political parties.
ALT Zack Polanski at a lectern saying "BOLD POLITICS. The Green Party."
Joe Taylor retweeted
If Lula wins the Brazilian election, the Amazon might survive.
If Bolsonaro wins, it’s finished.
ALT Graph of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by year showing it fell massively under Lula then rose again under Bolsonaro
Joe Taylor retweeted
"RAF" Fairford is actually a USAF base. The US Airforce currently operates from 12 main bases and facilities officially titled under the RAF across the UK. Operational bases include Lakenheath & Mildenhall, the remainder are Intel bases- making England the prime target in Europe.
