Due to hundreds of uncontrolled wildfires across Canada, New York City looks like a post-apocalyptic hellscape.
If you want a prelude of what the world is going to look like if we do not address man-made climate change — this is it.
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On Christmas Eve, unusually warm weather melted the most ice across the continent of Antarctica in a single day out of any day in recorded history:
15% of the continent's surface melted, temporarily.
We are in a
#climate
emergency.
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BAM! People for the win! After 18 days of massive blockades & protests, the Gov't of Ecuador & the Indigenous peoples reached an agreement to stop govt plans to increase oil , gas and mining expansion in the Amazon.
Big victory for mother earth.
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35,000 evacuated in British Columbia
30,000 more on evacuation alert
20,000 in Yellowknife evacuated
26,000 evacuated in Spain.
Historic heat, historic floods, historic wildfires.
How many more signs do we need before we
#ActOnClimate
?
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#wildfires
France’s longest river, the Loire, is running dry due to a 'historic drought'. More than 100 towns don't have access to drinking water. The Loire is also the source of cooling water for 12 nuclear power plants.
How many more 'historic events' before we
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?
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In Turkey they're using wind from passing busses to rotate wind vanes and
#solar
panels creating electricity to power 20,000 homes.
We have the solutions to the
#climate
crisis. The only thing missing is the political will to implement them
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#COP24
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MASSIVE! Look at all the people out in New Zealand! 1623 places, 119 countries, and counting!
Young people standing up to demand we act on the growing climate crisis.
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.
#FridaysForFuture
#ClimateStrike
16-year-old climate activist
@GretaThunberg
says she “has nothing to say” to people who don’t believe in climate change - including President Trump.
There is no time to waste, there is no planet B.
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#GreenNewDeal
Paris is working to become a '15-minute city' where everything you need is located locally within 15 mins. Every street will have a bike lane, 60,000 parking spots are being removed & replaced with parks. They aren't alone.
We have the solutions implement them.
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Horryfying footage showing the current scale of the forest fire that hit Alberta, Canada. 10,000 hectares of trees involved. Forest fire season is occuring earlier, and lasting longer. There is nothing normal about what's happening.
No time to wait.
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Reminder: A
#BombCyclone
occurs when excess heat from other areas of the planet pushes on the artic cap forcing that cold air to be displaced somewhere else.
Unmitigated global warming will make them more likely and intense.
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It took 96 weeks and thousands of volunteers to clean up Versova Beach in Mumbai, India. The payoff? Hundreds of thousands of seaturtles hatching for the first time in decades. Anything can be cleaned!
We have the solutions.
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#plasticpollution
‘I was arrested for civil disobedience … I turned 82 in jail!’ — Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the need for ‘bold action’ on the climate crisis.
There's no time to wait. This planet is all we've got. Defend it.
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#ClimateEmergency
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In 3 yrs this
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installation at a high school in Arkansas turned the district budget from a $250K deficit to a $1.8 million surplus. They're using the surplus to increase teacher salaries.
We have the solutions. Implement them.
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#energy
#renewables
Germany 🇩🇪 is launching the most environmentally friendly trains in the world. They are powered by hydrogen and oxygen. The only waste they produce is water.
We have the solutions. Time to ditch fossil fuels and implement them.
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In South Korea, they've covered this protected bike lane with solar panels - cyclists are protected from the sun, isolated from traffic, and it produces clean energy.
We have so many solutions. Implement them.
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#renewables
#GreenNewDeal
Los Angeles voted 12-0 to ban new drilling and to close all 5,000 existing oil and gas wells in the city. This is a historic victory by
@STAND_LA
and all citizens over the oil industry and environmental racism.
IT CAN BE DONE! Who's next?
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Greece wildfire declared largest ever recorded in EU: . Record wildfires in Europe, in Canada, record low arctic ice, record high global temps...
How many more records do we need to break before we
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#energy
#renewables
It took 96 weeks and thousands of volunteers to clean up Versova Beach in Mumbai, India. The payoff? Hundreds of thousands of seaturtles hatching for the first time in decades. Anything can be cleaned!
We have the solutions.
#ActOnClimate
#climate
#nature
#plasticpollution
‘I was arrested for civil disobedience … I turned 82 in jail!’ — Actor and activist Jane Fonda sounding the alarm about the need for ‘bold action’ on the climate crisis.
There's no time to wait. This planet is all we've got. Defend it.
#ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency
#climate
In 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise. Imagine if we had listened to him them.
No time to wait.
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Tomorrow, men in Alberta will get in trucks to confront a 16-year girl for stating science.
Q. Why do you think grown-ups in powerful positions are so afraid of you?
A. I think because they think their worldview is threatened. We should take that as a compliment.
@GretaThunberg
Keep in mind, the heatwaves, wildfires, droughts happening across the world are within "safe" climate change of 1.2°C warming. We are on course to double that.
There is no time to waste. Break free from fossil fuels.
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#climate
#energy
Paris is working to become a '15-minute city' where everything you need is located locally within 15 mins. Every street will have a bike lane, 60,000 parking spots are being removed & replaced with parks. They aren't done yet.
We have the solutions implement them.
#ActOnClimate