Ayisha Siddiqa
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"Our revolution is not a public speaking tournament.
Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, codewords, as a foil for their own display
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I still don’t think people understand what it means for 33 million people to be displaced. That’s 6 times more people than those internally displaced in Ukraine from war, that’s roughly 90% of the population of Canada.
That’s how many people are internally homeless right now
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Parts of Pakistan are over
122 ℉/ 50 ℃ right now. Let me break it down;
Our bodies maintain an average 97-99.5 ℉ temperature in heat and cold. When the outside environment gets so hot that your body can not sweat to maintain equilibrium it starts going into shock
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They are burning the land they claim to be indigenous to, because "if Israel can't have it no one can." This is violence, this is vandalism, this is occupation by dirty warfare.
Last night, Israeli settlers from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma’on set fire to hay bails in the Palestinian village of Tuba, in the South Hebron Hills.
This is what occupation looks like.
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And they'll make museums about it, people will write their thesis dissertations on Palestine, there will be entire departments dedicated to "posT-colonial studies" or "Apartheid in the 21st century" and suffering will be cited in Human Rights classes. For shame. For shame. shame.
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If you hate property damage so much wait 'till you hear about climate change.
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We are not responsible for Climate change the way the USA, China, Russia and Europe is. Pakistan may look like a distant reality right now, but what is happening on our soil is the future of the rest of the world if we don’t stop burning fossil fuels. Wake up.
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That’s more than the entire population of Australia, and 3 times that of Portugal.
And the United States with its $30 million dollar donation has given less than $1/ person to the people displaced. That’s not even a drop, it’s an insult.
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For a country with co2 emission of 0.98%/capita and which has contributed to the climate crisis less than 0.5%, we’re being thrown crumbs at, and told to be grateful.
Imagine if for all you lost, you were given $1
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Not to mention the amount of disease that looms and thrives under extreme temperatures. The climate crisis is causing painful deaths, THAT CAN BE PREVENTED. That should be prevented.
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Canada which contributes an annual 15.5 metric tons of carbon, meaning it is actively setting the earth on fire has given us $5 million in aid. That dear readers in less than 50 cents/ person. That’s the global north’s idea of reparations
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Of the 33 million people people displaced due to the floods in Pakistan, many are living In shanty towns, their only belongings; sacks of clothes. They are being forced to survive on 2-3 cups of tea a day. It's so painful to know that it hasn't even been a week & the world forgot
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I delivered this poem at the 11th hour of the conference of parties. Loss and damage means unbelievable loss. We can not come back from the loss of culture. There will come a time when no amount of dollars will be able to bring back what we’ve lost and broken.
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Heatwaves of course affect rural and poor communities the most because people don’t have access to Air conditioning. In a country like Pakistan where energy shortages are another part of reality, it also means you don’t have a working fan
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France’s hijab ban is not just obviously Islamaphobic, it’s also policing of women’s bodies and minor’s bodies. It’s a violation of basic self determination and stems from a larger issue of the over sexualization of women and girls.
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Calling this charity is a hyperbole, even the average person has more decency than to open their purse only to give a displaced person a penny
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Once your body reaches 104 ℉ it goes into heat stroke, you begin vomiting, expirencing nausea. As the body gets hotter, you
sweat more and excess release of salt and moisture from your body can can cause your muscles to spasm and cramp
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The people of Pakistan can’t seem to get a break and international news seems not to care. After months of heatwaves with temperatures reaching 50+ C, the country is enduring record breaking monsoon floods, due to climate change.
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Twitter is not the best platform for a nuanced convo, therefore I want to share that adding the point about Ukraine was not in any way to diminish the suffering of those facing war. These numbers are so huge it’s hard to quantify them especially when there isn’t coverage
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your blood vessels expand to cool you and your heart rate increases and can cause you to into cardiac arrest.
At 107 ℉ your organs begin to fail. Your kidneys shut down as does your brain. And you can die.
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You want to know why I got into climate activism, it wasn't because I wanted to protect the environment (although that is a very valid reason). I became involved b/c the West slaughtered, bombed and starved my people to death in the name of oil. And no one talks about it.
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There is no sugar coated way to say this, but it so hard for me to care about anything not immediately related to protecting humanity because compared to the enormity of the issue of climate change, it is all trite and insignificant. The 9-5, the homework, the meetings etc etc.
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I am of a matriarchal bloodline, I know fierce like the cradle of my grandmother. The women in my family have created all that we have with sheer grit; despite living as tribal/rural woman in one of the most patriarchal and violent countries against women in the world; Pakistan
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BREAKING: People are occupying New York City Hall until the police budget deadline (June 30th) to demand defunding of NYPD budget by $1 billion. We need all hands on deck. People, food, water, etc. Please share!
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Update from day 2 of
#cop26
The silencing and removal of black & brown youth activists, at three major events occurred yesterday.
we are not wanted in this conference, we are made to feel like we should be thankful, like people are doing us a favor by acknowledging our existence
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The question I am asked so often: Ayisha how can we solve the climate crisis, what is the best solution?
The answer I want to say in the most blunt way possible: end capitalism. Transition away from market based exploitive economies. It not working.
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today I woke up. turned on my computer and just stared at it for an hour because it hit me, again, the magnitude of what is at stake and frankly I feel insane . I am thinking about the year 2050, I will be 51 years old and we'll have a 40 million dead body count.
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Taking wet bulb into account (which is the temperature measurement that includes moisture in the air) & is lower than the dry bulb temp mentioned above, Pakistan is experiencing intervals of wet bulb temps reaching 35 C/ 99 F, which is the absolute limit of human tolerance
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YOU CAN NOT NEGOTIATE WITH NATURE.
YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH NATURE.
YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH NATURE.
#COP26
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Colonialism has been explicitly and unequivocally interlinked with climate change in this IPCC impact report. Vulnerable communities are vulnerable precisely because of colonial history. Climate change is a residual effect of years of inequality and destruction
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I was invited to the World Economic Forum this year to share more on how the youth movement is using tools like climate litigation to help fill the compliance gap on climate pledges
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For clarification the “y’all” being referred to here is media and climate activists.
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If you’re wondering “what can I do?” as the ocean catches fire in Gulf of Mexico, as the clouds in British Columbia are raging with embers, I recommend you help us bring an end to fossil fuel companies once and for all.
#pollutersoutnow
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People in Pakistan spent Eid in 116°F / 47°C temperatures in April. My family celebrated being able to drink water after a month of fasting.
This past month of March has been the hottest in the country since 1961 and Pakistan’s glacier ice is melting at an unprecedented speed
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I’ve had to keep silent these past few days to ensure the safety of my dear friend Disha Ravi, and it has been the most difficult silence of my life. I watched the arrest and defamation of one of the most gentle souls to live among us, and I can't tell you how disappointed I am
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the ice cream in question, just in case you think im exaggerating
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If you want to understand why we are in a climate crisis look to
#COP26
. it has replicated capitalism, white supremacy and elitism to the t. Lol the status quo keeps saying we need system change, while literally being the system!
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I had the honor to deliver the opening speech at the youth climate protest this Friday, I was extremely nervous but no one could’ve have prepared me for all the tears I saw in the crowd in response to the pain of the earth.
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The fight for climate justice at its core a fight for love, it comes from a place of deep deep love for humanity. For without humanity love ceases to exist, laughter ceases to exist. Every little twig that has created our collective concept of this nest we call home, disappears.
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I don’t know how else to say this but my people are dying, and greed enabled climate crisis is to blame!
Jacobabad, Pakistan is now the hottest city in the world, with temp reaching 125.6 F
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The citizens of unstable govs tend to receive the least funding during natural disasters b/c the gov in power can’t be trusted. The irony is citizens of such corrupt governments end up suffering the most. The situation in Pakistan is a prime example. This is what you need to know
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while completely ignoring the death and destruction it caused and then appropriating the term indigenous to suggest oil infrastructure in the UK was her company’s right. The whole panel was a hodge podge of lies and greenwashing.
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You can not negotiate time with nature and science. Every minute lost to thinking we can defeat nature will kill us.
But loss and damage is the last last resort. The first and foremost step is to end our dependence on fossil fuel. To phase it ALL out completely.
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Today marks the anniversary the biggest protest against climate change. Unfortunately I write today with the same message; we are in big trouble and nothing has changed. The world is still on fire and we’re running out of time.
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I think we’ve forgotten that it took one person to contract COVID-19 for the whole world to shut down for over over a year.
We need to help India immediately before there is a second wave all over the continent. Most of the world does not have vaccines.
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Campaigning works! The UNFCCC is requiring all attendees of the COP to disclose their affiliations on their badges, meaning fossil fuel lobbyist will have to identify themselves. This is a big win for the youth who have fighting for a conflict of interest agreement since 2019
I am here at SB58, a conference that is commonly known as the pre-cop where the agenda of negotiations is determined and transitional commities on topic of mitigation, adaptation etc convenene. This year the pre-cop is vested with polluters interest
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The UN Secretary General says he has never seen climate catastrophe of such capacity, and the world is ignoring the extent of human suffering occurring right now, because refugees are sleeping under the bare sun in 41C (106F) temps
I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan.
As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt.
This is a global crisis. It demands a global response.
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So
@British_Airways
lost my baggage with all my traditional clothes and sacred jewelry, so that I have nothing to wear for COP.
when I called them they said to file a claim for refunds and I’m only allowed to buy “essentials”
but how are you going to replace 180 year old items?
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Today at her hearing Disha said “If highlighting the farmers’ protest globally is sedition, then “I am better (off) in jail”
It’s a privilege to call yourself an activist. It is a privilege to organize strikes and then get invited to panels with government officials.
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@Limefield
What’s unfair my people are paying in dead bodies because of the consumption of wealthy nations. And for all that we feed, clothe and sustain places like the UK, all we get are thoughts and prayers. All the major news outlets are run by UK and US groups
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Those of us who come from war affected countries know very well the price humans and the planet pay for the white mans greed. Just because the climate movement refuses to acknowledge the links between the war for oil & millions who've suffered, doesn't mean we are unaware.
You want to know why I got into climate activism, it wasn't because I wanted to protect the environment (although that is a very valid reason). I became involved b/c the West slaughtered, bombed and starved my people to death in the name of oil. And no one talks about it.
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I want to take a moment to thank the
@IPCC_CH
and the many amazing scientists who year after year, keep reminding us of the truth. Who are consistently researching a way out of climate catastrophe. I, we, the youth, appreciate you and your work more than we can express.
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death toll is up to 38, global north the inevitable is finally at your doors
Horrific flooding in Germany today. At least 19 reported dead. The climate emergency is here, now.
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The action
@TEDTalks
made headlines. The next morning Queen Elizabeth gave a statement on climate change the first time. We were applauded, thanked and boo’d. What most people don’t realize is, what Ted took a year to plan we had to respond to in less than 12 hours.
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Every major news station even formally colonized states (including Pakistan) has dedicated constant coverage over the death of a monarch whose throne, if sold, could single handily end poverty in half a dozen countries, but not the ever increasing emergency in Pakistan
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I’ve dedicated the past 2 years to exposing the money behind the Conference of the Parties (the most important event regarding climate)
This month in particular, I’ll be sharing info & education about what is happening at the global level, until Nov when
#COP26
begins.
-UNFCC & COP was formed in the 80's to fight climate change
-COP is funded & sponsored by fossil fuels
- We haven't solved the climate crisis in fact we're even more screwed
- We need to kick
#pollutersout
of COP because they're actively preventing progress
#DEFUNDCOP
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The world that I've known for most of my life is one of immense suffering, of wildfires and melting glaciers, its beauty dissipating and its people so desensitized that they do not care. How do you not expect me and kids my age not to be anxious, horrified and lost.
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I dont care to get into debates about respecting a monarch who sat in jewels stolen from my country, I care that we all keep eating up the false realties and irrelevant headlines they feed us. Our world is collapsing before our eyes, due to climate change,
#PakistanIsOurStory
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Posing who is reprensible for Climate crisis as a debate actually comes from a heightened seat of privilege, because you ignore historical, statistical and scientific data and blame poor black and black people for their own suffering.
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Below are weather readings from today April 28, 2022 of four cities in Pakistan; Sibi, Jacobabad, Nawabshah and DG Kahn. Temperatures are only expected to increase as the week progresses. The country and its people are broiling.
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Update from
#COP26
day 3 as negotiators occur:
Today Jeff Bezos held a panel about the climate crisis. Jeffery BAEZOS, the surrogate father of modern day capitalism. The word justice is literally a joke here because nothing about COP is just.
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I think because climate activists are up against such an urgent matter we’ve been duped into believing that organizing and movement building is also supposed to be lighting speed fast- to catch up with the problem we’re trying to solve but
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We are marching and protesting for climate justice on Sept 25th in NYC and we need everyone to show up. Our world is on fire we need a Green new Deal and we need to sign a binding agreement with the Paris Climate Accord!
This was the sky tonight in California. There’s no filter on this photo. This is earth in 2020. This is not good.
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I hope this message reaches the attendees of the UNGA, the politicians (Pakistani gov included) who time and time again decide who lives and who dies. Whose addiction to oil and power is killing us alive.
#pakistanisourstory
Thankyou
@jaeminard
for recording and editing!
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I was sick and tired of the climate movement stifling voices of the global South and the empty decisions being made in the global north, so I started a coalition movement with youth from over 50 counties and 50 movements to remove the fossil fuel industry from the U.N. Join US!!!
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Remember when Notre-Dame was one fire? Remember how billions came pouring in?
Al-Aqsa is older than Notre-Dame
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The doomsday glacier is collapsing,
It is 60 degrees Fahrenheit in Alaska and parts of the Northeast in December !!!!
AND COLORADO IS ON FIRE.
How much more data, evidence, death do we need to realize that life as we know it is at risk? Everything we love, our homes,
These images are devastating from the wildfires in Boulder County, CO north of Denver. Images from FOX 31
#marshallfire
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Nothing will matter then, not your college degree, not your accolades, nothing but the people you love and time with them. We are running out of time, something we can never ever ever get back.
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Update from the last day of
#cop26
, after the UN presented its negotiations and constituency statements were made, civil society walked out of the blue zone in protest of all that has been compromised including a 1.5 C target
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Really exited to share with you, my first academic article on climate anxiety, a deeper analysis on why it is not necessarily a bad thing. The piece is an accumulation of research and the experiences of activists. Check it out below!
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Pakistani's can not preach about liberation of the Palestinian people without acknowledging the extrajudicial murder happening against the Baloch people on our own soil. I stand in firm solidarity with
@MahrangBaloch_
#MarchAgainstBalochGenocide
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This year, at climate events I DO NOT want to hear white people get on stage, take up space and then say “we should be listening to black, brown and indigenous folk.” At this point, i refuse to be the thing you use to convince the world that you have a moral compass.
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Some updates from
#COP26
1. They have amped up security to the max, me thinks it’s because of the embarrassment COP faced in 2019 with all the youth and indigenous protests when they threatened to take badges away
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Hello! To all the new friends, and blessings to all the friends who have been with me for the past years. I wanted to use this opportunity to introduce myself, my name is Ayisha Siddiqa. My family comes from northern Punjab, Pakistan: the tribal lands of Moochiwala & Mhasan.
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The way school, work, and so many people in professional spaces have treated this work as a side gig, a passion, a hobby has in turn made the fear, grief, frustration I am feeling irrational.
Once and for all, I am not passionate about humanity reaching extinction!
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The World Health Organization has estimated global mortality from climate will change from 150,000 deaths/year to 250,000 deaths/year by 2030. however these deaths will compound and proceed to exponentially increase. Business-as-usual will release 40 billion tons of CO2 by 2050
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Moderation, phasing out, false net zeros and working within capitalism is what will eventually kill us. We have less than 7 years before we reach a point of no return.
Abolish fossil fuels.
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Just like the physical damage of the climate crisis is endured disproportionately by BIPOC, so are the mental health consequences. We’re about to see a mental health crisis in Pakistan, one that will physically alter the brains of children and adults alike.
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The regions facing the highest threats are Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, according to the IEP.
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Sometimes "climate-anxiety" feels too palatable of a phrase. Knowing that we are 5 years away from hitting 1.5 degrees of warming & irrevocable consequences is causing a sense of doom, watching people ignore the destruction of life as we know it- is beyond frustrating
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It doesn’t matter if your a climate activist or not, if your an Indian citizen or not, Disha’s rights to freedom of speech are being contested with and we can not allow that to happen.
#StandWithDishaRavi
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And although Pakistan’s textile industry literally clothes the rest of the world, we produce less than 1% of GHG emmisson yet we pay in dead bodies time and time again. Pakistan is ranked the 5th most affected country in THE world to climate change.
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The victory on a loss and damage fund has been incredible to watch, I applaud the island nations, the youth who day and day out campaigned, indigenous peoples and everyone who refused to take no for an answer.
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Over 300 children have died, tens of thousands have become displaced & entire states have lost access to internet. Flooding destroyed roads and pathways leaving ppl trying to escape stranded. Balochistan experienced some of the worst affects of these floods with hundreds dead
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The earth is not dead matter. The soil is not commodity. The land is not property. It is life. It is life. It is life.
#FarmersProtest
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being a POC is not the same as being black in America. We have a great deal of anti-blackness in our communities, and we are not exempt from holding our own accountable. We too need to actively be anti-racist.
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I am here at SB58, a conference that is commonly known as the pre-cop where the agenda of negotiations is determined and transitional commities on topic of mitigation, adaptation etc convenene. This year the pre-cop is vested with polluters interest
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psa: cyberbullying is okay when it's towards the fossil fuel industry
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I’ve been told that I’m soft spoken and its something that I embrace. I have no desire to be loud. But the amount of times I’ve been cut off my men, or louder people on panels, in meetings is just ridiculous. Why must we rush, enlarge everything until it is reduced to nothing?
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MENA and South Asia didn’t fall apart overnight. It happened after the West industrialized and needed fossil fuel to function. Oil companies, share holders and governments affiliated with oil companies have the blood of millions on their hands.
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And before you say its more nuanced than that, that there are a great deal of political actors in play, I ask "who do you think is responsible for aiding, funding and escalating political instability in those regions? Who benefited from the spoils?
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Delighted to share that I will be joining the 2nd cohort of the UN General Secretary
@antonioguterres
group of youth advisors. I hope to use this opportunity to ensure that the rights of present and future generations & human rights are at the center of climate Justice
Meet the new cohort of the Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change (
@YAGClimate
) 👏🇺🇳
Appointed by
@antonioguterres
, these 7 inspiring young
#ClimateAction
advocates will share their expertise & recommendations to guide the
@UN
's work on
#ClimateAction
👉
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The BLM movement has served as a rude but imperative awakening for the climate movement b/c it has shown us what protest actually looks like. When you are a credible threat to power, you don't get to make a brand out of pain, or attain permits & permission to take to the streets.
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I’m seeing a lot of people celebrating the shutting down of the Dakota Access pipeline, with platitudes like “activism works” without acknowledging that indigenous people have led this fight and won this fight. It is their struggle which has led to this victory.
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Disha has every right to peaceful protest and assembly, I condemn her detention and stand in complete solidarity with my friend.
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The 1.5 degrees compromise made in Paris is no longer on the negotiations table. The nations that make up the UN, at COP26 literally said ‘we don’t care of you die, we’re going to keep colluding with fossil fuel and prioritizing profit’.
#Pollutersout
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When I say
#cop26
is inequitable, I mean it’s a money making Coachella for governments.
Every day flight tickets are increasing, hotels are charging criminal amounts of money for lodging. It really is a simulation for the world coming to an end & poor people getting fucked over.
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This is THE MOST IMPORTANT decade in human history. The governments in power are the last institutions that can put in place policies that might allow us to stay alive. Anyone who is telling you to be grateful for where we are right now in regards to climate is lying to you.
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