XR Calgary is a group of concerned and hopeful Calgarians who aim to use civil disobedience and non-violent action to protest climate breakdown.
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#EcoGrief support lines are open!
Feel free to DM us 🌱 💛
Literally none of my NY friends have their Twitter locked down, while nearly all my closest #Ableg friends do.
Especially women.😔
Sending strength & love to all of you fighting the real fight in Alberta. The place is not normal. Stay strong. Stay safe. Take time if you need it.
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"Stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than that, pretend they don't believe in climate change for their own self-interest." Harrison Ford
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate
#climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal #cop28
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The UCP needs to stop lying about what is driving up power prices. It isn’t renewables or coal phase out.
Economists and the market surveillance administrator have both concluded it is economic withholding- companies bidding power in way over cost + reasonable profit
1/ #AbLeg
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🚨 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Christmas Carol Outside Keir Starmer's House
🎵 9 Just Stop Oil supporters have been threatened with arrest for singing climate criminal carols, and ordered not to return to his house for 3 months.
🚔 @metpoliceuk is carol singing illegal now?
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FYI @GretaThunberg
When you were in Vancouver BC in October 2019, you stood with the youth who are suing the federal government for not doing enough on climate.
The case is now moving forward.
#ThursdayMorning Reading: #Youth4Climate - "The lawsuit asks the Federal Court of Canada to declare that the government’s conduct violates the Charter and the government’s public trust duties..." Case moves forward with ruling. Statement from @youthvgov
ourchildrenstrust.org/canada
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Indigenous people comprise 6.2% of the world population, but they are negatively affected in 34% of documented environmental conflicts due to industrial-extractive expansion.
Research in Science, by my colleagues at @ICTA_UAB: science.org/doi/full/10.1126…
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Despite the agreement at COP28, Wet’suwet’en people have known all along that a historic (and pervasive) driving force of climate change, decimation of land & human health is the colonization of lands for oil & gas.
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1. .@ClimateHuman Peter Kalmus, NASA climate scientist.
"We could lose everything."
"Time is not on our side."
juststopoil.org/get-involved…
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“We need to scale down civilisation, before it collapses under its own weight. Degrowth is a principle, not a technology. It involves no investors, job creation, green new deals or fancy EVs. It is a sacrifice, which cannot be and should not be sugar-coated” #ClimateCrisis
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Dairy is the food most likely to be disrupted in the coming years.
So we've just published a new 'living report' that we'll update as new evidence surfaces on the state of environmental impacts from dairy including a 🧵here of the 5 top facts to consider:
plantbaseddata.org/post/stat…
ALT The Coronado Dairy on Kansas Settlement Road in the southeast corner of Arizona. Riverview LLP, a Minnesota-based dairy, has been buying up land and drilling new wells to grow feed for its cattle | Lucas Foglia
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ICYMI: Climate experts incl. Dr. James Hansen are suing EPA demanding it regulate GHG emissions under the TSCA 👇
Climate Scientists and Experts Take Legal Action Against EPA to Compel Climate Action Under Chemical Statute - Climate in the Courts climateinthecourts.com/1/pos…
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“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” scoop.me/housing-first-finla…
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This article was written 110 years ago. 110 years and we still aren't doing what we need to do to address the climate crisis.
No time to wait. Let's make 2023 the year we #ActOnClimate
#Climate #energy #ClimateEmergency #renewables #GreenNewDeal.
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"On Friday, council approved a city budget in which CPS asked for a boost of $34 million — along with an additional $77 million for capital projects that include a new $10-million gun range."
cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/c…
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Join us and the @ClimateHubYYC this Saturday in a friendly game of volleyball as part of a global day of action demanding that world leaders at #COP27 take appropriate action to address the climate crisis and ensure environmental justice for all.
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BREAKING: Following our complaint, @CompBureau has launched an investigation into #fossilfuel industry #greenwashing. This is the first investigation into the gas industry's advertising in #Canada.
Read more 👀 cape.ca/press_release/canada…
#COP27 #climateemergency #canpoli
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❓ What will end the disruption?
❌ High Court injunctions
❌ Preemptive arrests
❌ Reactive arrests
✅ The Government halting all new oil and gas licences and projects
🖋 Sign up for arrestable direct action at bit.ly/JSOaction
#COP27 #COP27Egypt #M25 #JustStopOil
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Do radical protests turn the public away from a cause? No, despite what people say on social media.
Do radical protests bring attention to that cause? Absolutely.
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Another $34.8 million to the Calgary Police Service, which already has a documented annual budget of over $450 million. And your property taxes are paying for it.
ALT Largely owing to increases in property tax revenue, the city is projecting its operating revenue could reach $323 million by 2026. Under the plan, various departments would receive a boost in funding: Police services would see increased funding of $34.8 million, which the city said would be used to "continue the transformation and reform of policing" in Calgary, and lead to an increase in staffing and police technology.