Climate activist. Mum. Certified Passive House Designer and Sustainable Building Advisor. Mars sucks. #followbackclimate Founder, @affectingchange
Toronto, Canada
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Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
We all know climate anxiety isn't a disorder but a normal, rational reaction to a devastating threat
By extension, surely not being anxious about the threat is the mental health issue to be concerned about?
I worry about those who aren't worried
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
The Seven Stages of climate denial:
1. It's not real
2. It's not us
3. It's not that bad
4. Do you want us to live in caves!
5. It's too expensive to fix
6. Here's a fake solution
7. It's too late: why didn't you tell us?
@COP28 denies reality of #ClimateChange
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
what billionaires and the very rich are doing in essence is stealing life force that was not meant for them from other humans, and other species, from the past, present, and future.
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
1. This is the only radiator in our house. We haven't turned it on yet, or used any other heating source. Yet we are always warm. Why? Because this house (which we rent) was built almost to passive house standards. Our bodies/cooking/appliances are sufficient to heat it. 🧵
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
We know why: it's because data and models all look backwards, at the way things have been. They're consistently failing to account for how an extra 10 zetajoules of heat per year are powering stronger + more dangerous storms that intensify faster. cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-o…
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see.
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Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Matthew Perry portrayed one of the most well-known characters of all time but also helped others. He used his celebrity status to lobby Congress for more drug court funding and opened a rehab centre at his former mansion. What a remarkable legacy to leave behind. #MatthewPerry
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
I want to leave Matthew Perry’s own words here as the way we remember him. There will never be another like him- he lit up so many hearts in so many ways. Godspeed to Paradise!
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
We need to stop regarding the climate emergency as a stand-alone environmental problem. Global heating, although ruinous, is not the sole symptom of our present struggling on Earth. See our climate emergency paper. Think overshoot. doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab0…… cartoon- P. A.Jansen
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Becoming Paris would mean taking an area like this and having pretty much ALL of it become 6-8 storey apartment blocks.
We have single detached houses with front and backyards within a 15-minute walk of King and Bay…
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Ok, just for fun, three maps:
1) The outline of Paris, within the Périphérique, overlaid on central Toronto.
2) Toronto subway lines and stations within that area (including Crosstown).
3) Paris Métro lines (1-14) and stations within that same area.
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Here is fossil fuel companies' new defense in lawsuits accusing them of deceiving the public about climate change:
They perpetrated no deception, they say, because the "alleged impact of fossil fuel use on the global climate has been ‘open and obvious’ for decades."
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Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
‘Our world hangs by a thread’: Indigenous activist asks US agri giant @Cargill to stop destroying Amazon rainforest @standearth theguardian.com/environment/…
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Falmouth Uni Painted in Third Day of Student Resistance
🦺 Holly just sprayed orange paint over the Vice Chancellor's office at Falmouth University, calling on students and staff to unite against criminal new oil and gas.
🖋️ Sign up: juststopoil.org/students
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Since the beginning of 2023, Canada has had:
🔥6,500 wildfires
🔥over 18 million hectares scorched — the most in recorded history
🔥over 355 megatonnes of carbon emissions released – double the previous emissions record for fires
📽️@simplymichael2u of #Osoyoos fire
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
Hoping to retire and ignore the #ClimateCrisis? Bad news:
"Pension funds are risking the retirement savings of millions of people by relying on economic research that ignores critical scientific evidence on financial risks embedded in a warming climate."
carbontracker.org/reports/lo…
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
14 dead, over 100 missing, in just one disaster, during the hottest year in recorded history and all the media talks about is the morals of interrupting a fucking musical.
theguardian.com/world/2023/o…
Sandra Leigh Lester retweeted
TO seniors, people w disabilities, child'n & other people who live below the poverty line including in "🆕" bldgs must hv housing+honeycomb 🪟 blinds, thermal curtains, 🪟 film, ceiling+portable fans, dehumidifiers, portable A/C, now autumn/23 B4 spring/24 & in case of 🔌 outages