Up to 10,000 people feared dead after devastating #floods sweep #Libya
Yet Modi and his farright chums at the #G20 kicked the climate action can into the long grass.
How many more have to die to line the pockets of scum like Modi, Putin et al?
We needed to have stopped using fossil fuels years ago, we can’t carry on as if our planet wasn’t burning around us, trashing the only place we can survive.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChaos
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/libya-floods-thousands-feared-dead-derna-dams-collapse-rcna104576
“The Greenpeace action, in which demonstrators draped Rishi Sunak’s mansion in oil-black cloth, was greeted with predictable media hysteria.
The protestors are “zealots”, the press screamed.
In the Edwardian era, the same newspapers used precisely the same language – and worse – about suffragettes.”
#Resist #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
Back in 2021, the world’s most influential energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency, said there was no room for new oil and gas expansion anywhere in the world if the global energy system is to reach net-zero by 2050.
A study published in Nature in 2021 estimated that 60% of oil and gas reserves must remain in the ground if the world is to have half a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the ambition of the Paris Agreement.
One option left: #VoteGreen
It’s been the same throughout human history — a small minority of the wilfully thick end up causing wars, death and destruction.
This time round they might end up killing us all…and the planet.
Tourists flock to the Mediterranean as if the climate crisis isn't happening.
This year's heat and fire will force change 🤞