Earth-based filmmaker & entrepreneur // weaving a new climate narrative.
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Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
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Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬
Great line from the eminent @JohnJCrace:
"It’s a sign of how far we’ve fallen as a country that a promise not to make everyone worse off provokes an outburst of gratitude from voters. Tears of relief that we won’t all become destitute."
theguardian.com/politics/art…
Dear academics - #canihazpdfplease if that is still a thing 🙏
doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/978…
Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
The decision at #COP28 to finally recognize that the climate crisis is, at its heart, a fossil fuel crisis is an important milestone. But it is also the bare minimum we need and is long overdue. The influence of petrostates is still evident in the half measures and loopholes included in the final agreement.
Fossil fuel interests went all out to control the outcome, but the passionate work of millions of climate activists around the world inspired and motivated delegates from many nations to loosen the industry’s grip.
Whether this is a turning point that truly marks the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era depends on the actions that come next and the mobilization of finance required to achieve them.
We must ask ourselves how much longer will the world have wait before all nations summon the political will to overcome these narrow special interests and act on behalf of the future of humanity. It is up to all of us to hold our leaders accountable to their promise to transition away from fossil fuels once and for all.
How to be a pretrostate at #COP28:
1. Lobby for deliberately outrageous text in draft, gaslighting progressives.
2. Remove said text, leaving all loopholes in place.
3. Congratulate selves for "major progress on climate."
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Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is “Of the Petrostates, By the Petrostates and For the Petrostates.” It is deeply offensive to all who have taken this process seriously. There are 24 hours left to show whose side the world is on: the side that wants to protect humanity’s future by kickstarting the orderly phase out of fossil fuels or the side of the petrostates and the leaders of the oil and gas companies that are fueling the historic climate catastrophe. In order to prevent COP28 from being the most embarrassing and dismal failure in 28 years of international climate negotiations, the final text must include clear language on phasing out fossil fuels. Anything else is a massive step backwards from where the world needs to be to truly address the climate crisis and make sure the 1.5°C goal doesn’t die in Dubai.
So lets get this straight:
The UK's #climatechange minister is *leaving COP early* to scurry home and vote on @RishiSunak's *racist Rawanda bill*?
It's racist towards refugees, its racist to the Global South, its a derriliction of duty. Its sickening.
theguardian.com/environment/…
Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
question for people who have experienced long dark depressive periods in the past and are mostly better now: how did that happen?
Hey @channel4earth, saw this and thought of you! An amazing resource for employee #climate action from @ClimateVoiceOrg:
climatevoice.org/employee-cl…
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Plastics Rebelion has written an open letter to Ed Balls, asking him not to speak at this year’s British Plastics Federation Annual Dinner. A thread: 🧵🪡 – at Godalming, England
Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
What can you even say about this?
How many animals get slaughtered for meat every day?
My new @OurWorldInData article is now online:
ourworldindata.org/how-many-…
Tristan Copley Smith retweeted
This is the very moment an oil tank catches fire after a lightning strike.
It happened at Calcasieu Refining Co. in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on June 3, 2023
[read more: buff.ly/3MS6XR]
Dear @fionaharvey,
*What role should the media play in educating the public about carbon markets and CDR?*
I posed this question in @carbongap's brilliant #carbonremoval webinar today, but it did not get a proper answer from you.
Will you answer it now?
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The media is a power centre like any other.
As @Guardian’s Environment Editor, will you use that power to educate the public on CDR? Because these incorrect public perceptions are hurting this communities efforts to solve the #climatecrisis.
3/4
(For more on the state carbon dioxide removal and mitigation deterrance see @carbongap's awesome new report: carbongap.org/how-to-avoid-m…)
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Reassuring not to feel alone in these resonant observations about the modern era. Thank you, @NaomiAKlein.
cc @dr___kitkat
To Know Yourself, Consider Your Doppelgänger
nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opini…
Rishi Sunak's policies are totally incompatible with climate action. Our government are making a genocidal mistake. That's why we have to stand up and stop them.
Join me in signing this petition!
actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
#ClimateActionNow #ClimateAction #JustStopSunak
