Founder of MakeTomorrow - helping organisations and individuals take bold climate action
London, England
Joined August 2011
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Gillian Benjamin retweeted
If you're fortunate enough not to be fighting for your physical or economic life in this broken system, and you're not obsessed with climate breakdown and reshaping your life to do what you can to halt it, then I'm sorry but you have no idea how bad it really is.
We’ve gathered some great visualisations here:
A five-part thread on animations that turn dry data sets into startling snapshots of our warming world🌍 We hope you enjoy!
1. Climate Spirals by @ed_hawkins. Windows screensaver meets climate meltdown in this clear-cut and unequivocal visual.👉bit.ly/38650e8 #climate
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We’ve compiled a great listing to deepen your climate understanding over this period:
Grab your headphones and have a listen to these stellar climate-related podcasts 🎧
1. Outrage and Optimism 👉bit.ly/2J00Bic
2. Sustainababble 👉bit.ly/2xJU6gW
3. TILclimate 👉bit.ly/2QqK62U
Get our full top ten listing here 👉bit.ly/2U49wp2
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Gillian Benjamin retweeted
A warm welcome to Mark Carney, the newly appointed Prime Minister's Finance Advisor for #COP26. @10DowningStreet
The @bankofengland Governor will advise the government on mobilising action within the financial sector to tackle #ClimateChange.
bit.ly/3akPA7J
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
UNEP: 1.5C climate target ‘slipping out of reach’ | @hausfath @robbie_andrew j.mp/2pQPnXg
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
Earth is warming but not the same everywhere. This #dataviz shows the warming since 1960 at different latitudes.
It shows that in 2016 the Arctic was already 3°C warmer than the 1961-1990 average,
The last decade is more than 2°C warmer!
#globalwarming #climatechange
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
"Politics bared of spiritual awareness always leads to violence and the abuse of power. Spirituality without political engagement resembles an escape from the world.”
Gundula Schatz
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
'Businesses just need to see what their #future customer wants – those seven million people who walked out and joined the #globalclimatestrike recently are your consumers, future markets, and future shareholders.' Farhana Yamin, environmental lawyer. ow.ly/JtI850wPBga
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
Typhoon #Hagibis made a direct hit on Tokyo, together with landslides, floods and an earthquake
-Most powerful storm for 60+ years
-Millions evacuating
-500mm of rain to fall on Tokyo in 24 hours, 700mm fell on Hakone in 48 hours
-Follows Typhoon Faxai which damaged 30,000 homes
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
See the problem here?
UK earnings & corporation tax paid:
Facebook £1.65bn
Tax: £28m
Amazon: £2.3bn
Tax: £14.7m
Google: £1.4bn
Tax: £66.8m
Apple: 1.2bn
Tax: £3.8m
Netflix: approx £700m
Tax: £51,000 REBATE
The public are being fleeced.
Public services are paying the price.
The new norm? BBC News - Hundreds of temperature records broken over summer bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
Since 2000, global
* Population has grown 25%
* GDP per capita has grown 52%
* Energy per unit GDP has improved 20%
* CO₂ per unit energy has remained flat
* CO₂ emissions have grown 50%
For global CO₂ emissions to go down, what has to change?
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
If you asked me: "which industry presents the greatest environmental threat, oil or media?", I would say "the media". Every day it misdirects us. Every day it tells us that issues of mind-numbing irrelevance are more important than the collapse of our life support systems.
At a time when emissions are supposed to peak and then rapidly decline..
Airlines’ CO2 emissions grew 4.9% within Europe last year, in contrast to the other EU emissions-trading sectors, which declined 3.9% overall. Carbon pollution from flying in Europe has risen 26.3% in the last 5 years – far above any other transport mode. transportenvironment.org/pre…
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Gillian Benjamin retweeted
Quote of the day: The scale of CO₂ removal is "several times larger than the current oil & gas industry...essentially we need to build an industry that’s 3 to 4 times the size of the current oil & gas industry just to clean up our waste"
axios.com/newsletters/axios-…
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
#IWD “My twenties were riddled with so much angst about what should I be doing with my life. I would say to my (younger) self just chill out, trust the process. You’re intelligent, you have the skills that you need. Go out there and follow your gut” bit.ly/2Tr8LYD
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
We have ZERO years left to take action. Ten years is (an overly conservative estimate of) when we cross into dangerous territory in the absence of immediate action on climate.
Thank you, @NancyPelosi.
We have 10 years left to plan and implement a Green New Deal before cataclysmic climate disaster.
Reinstating the Select Committee is exactly what we need to do.
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them and do nothing”. Following #RebellionDay from NZ and standing in solidarity.
This is what democracy looks like.
#ExtinctionRebellion
#RebellionDay
#RebelForLife
#ParliamentSquare
This is a #ClimateEmergency.
Gillian Benjamin retweeted
If an executive with three sexual misconduct allegations was interviewing for a senior leadership role in a company, he would be radioactive.
What does it mean that businesses have become more stringent judges of character than the federal government?
#KavanaughVote