Julia Steinberger
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Back on twitter. Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics in 🇨🇭. She/her. Opinions my own.
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Our leaders have demonstrated for months that they are unmoved by the slaughter of innocents. Indeed, they fund & cheer it on. This is not about them.
This is about us: how we organise & become powerful enough to stop them.
Stop appealing to power.
Start organising to counter it.
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MY GOD.
MY GOD.
MY GOD.
Germany is banning entire LANGUAGES other than English and German at protests.
How is this not fascism. How. And all to support far-right Islamophobic violent settler-state. The shame.
The Berlin police have banned people from speaking languages other than English or German at public events, in a racist attempt to crack down on Arabic. I’ll be at the Bundestag tomorrow using what I can remember of my Leaving Cert Irish to protest this. Join if you can!
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I really need everyone to tell me how Israel destroying the mosques in Gaza is so very different & moral than Nazi Germany destroying the synagogues during Kristallnacht.
Explain it to me like I am the granddaughter of a Cantor and Hebrew teacher who worked in one of them.
Blessed Friday from Rafah in southern Gaza, where residents and displaced people are performing the Friday prayers on the ruins of a mosque bombed by Israel
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It's becoming clear to me how generalised Western Islamophobia has prevented "us" (media, politicians, public...) from truly understanding the violent, extreme Zionism that rules Israel. For instance:
1⃣ we recognise indoctrination of children by ISIS, but not by Zionist orgs.
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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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The Columbia student activists are NOT targeting Jewish students FFS. THEY ARE ALSO JEWISH STUDENTS. The White House lies and lies and lies, here putting non-violent students futures, health and lives at risk. The biggest megaphone in the USA just called them violent antisemites.
BREAKING: White House statement on anti-Israel protests at Columbia University:
“While every American has the right to peaceful protect, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students and the Jewish community are blatantly Antisemitic, unconscionable, and
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I need everyone, esp in academia, to watch this clip and understand what
@mayaywind
is saying when she says that Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the Gaza genocide. Hebrew Uni is helping define targets. Tel Aviv Uni is developing arguments against human rights.
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"In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy" but they are "a central pillar of Israel's regime of oppression against Palestinians," says
@mayaywind
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The owner of this website, the largest (dis)information platform on the planet, is a climate denier both in terms of causes and consequences.
@elonmusk
is a climate denier. Plain and simple. End of.
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Not only is Anne Irfan not Palestinian, she is married to an Israeli former IDF soldier who celebrates the attack on Gaza and stands against ceasefire (see replies to this tweet for receipts). This is not scholarship, it's coloniser apologia. It's complicit.
.
@simonschusterUK
has signed A Short History of The Gaza Strip by historian
@Anne_Irfan
, 'an illuminating and necessary primer for anyone who wants the context to the current war'
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I can't get over this. The Chinese paddlefish survived for 190 MILLION YEARS. It survived the mass extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. It had existed on Earth for almost one thousand times longer than Homo Sapiens - yet we destroyed it, forever.
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Honestly it is hard to do any kind of work right now, between the accelerating of planetary destabilisation and the breakdown of any pretence of international law and human rights.
It's hard to breathe, even.
There has to be a way of working towards good. There has to be.
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I have something unformed to say, but basically it comes down to hiding or refusing to face reality being, at their very core, evil.
Israel is determined to kill-expel every single man, woman and child in Gaza. 99% of their actions and words point clearly that way, since Oct.
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The
@derspiegel
hit piece on
@GretaThunberg
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Not only did Germany physically deport him, after hours of interrogation, they told him that if he connected by videoconf, he'd be breaking German law and face jail term????
In an exclusive interview with Middle East Eye, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British-Palestinian doctor who has become known for his work in Gaza, detailed how he was detained at an airport in Germany and subsequently denied entry. Abu Sittah wanted to attend a conference where he would
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As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯.
🧵, please RT.
#BeyondGrowth2023
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As gunboats attack Rafah, as the ghetto is liquidated, it is horrific to know that basic human principles, upheld by millions upon millions around the world, were not enough. It is even more horrific to know there are those whose voice could have mattered who were silent.
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Ok listen up. some people in replies are saying that a port is better than airdrops of aid. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS CON.
There are 1000s of trucks full of aid waiting outside Gaza. Israel is the one stopping them. If they can let trucks in to construct a port, they bloody well...
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Some predictions I am willing to make.
1. This infrastructure will be used for drilling and extracting fossil fuels for Western companies.
2. This infrastructure will be used for colonising Gaza with Israeli-US military and settlements.
3. Very little humanitarian aid ...
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A reminder that even in the very worst and most urgent crises, your most progressive politicians will still lag behind public opinion rather than lead it.
Never forget this lesson. Politicians are not leaders, they are followers. This means it's up to everyone else to lead.
A majority of Americans now believe that — due to the horrific humanitarian disaster in Gaza — the U.S. should block new arms shipments to Israel.
I agree.
There should be no more U.S. money for the Netanyahu war machine.
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We're barrelling head first into a cataclysmic climate disaster of planetary scale, and our governments and economies are COMPLETELY disregarding the emergency exit that would spare us. We're not going to make it, and it's not because "solutions" don't exist.
A 🧵, I guess.
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Random thought that I wish people realised more: capitalism doesn't collapse. It fractures and hardens, with ever more dystopian violence and inequality. We have to build solidarity alternatives while there is still time, right now.
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I am finding it hard to put into words. It is not just the knowledge of deliberate mass death and atrocities being committed: it is the realisation that our goverments are brazenly, proudly, supporting it.
Switzerland cancelled funding for human right NGOs last week ffs.
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Dear Journalists covering tomorrow's IPCC report release,
First of all, THANK YOU.
Second of all, here are a couple of questions you should not be asking climate scientists, ever ever ever.
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"You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that will enable you to carry on like before. Like now. And those answers don’t exist any more. Because you did not act in time." I am thankful for
@GretaThunberg
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And the lesson here is clear for all: if you are undesirable by any force within this hegemony, you will be brutally erased from the face of the earth, swiftly, without a murmur of protest or a hint of recourse.
Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century.
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Much more than before, this feels like the multiple walls of hegemony closing in: military and police force, propaganda, economic and cultural spheres all aligned, with little to no political opposition, except on the very margins.
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France banning demonstrations (Switzerland had previously as well). The UK & US proudly supporting, funding, arming Israel. People being threatened, fired, forced to resign for simply standing up for human rights. Media dehumanising Palestinians, across the spectrum.
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But Zionist organisations teach children false history and indoctrinate them into violence against Palestinians and Arabs more generally.
2⃣ we recognise violent terrorism as 'belonging' to Islam, but we fail to recognise the long patterns of violent terrorism ...
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By latest count, the Greens have almost 9x more seats than UKIP. I expect to see them on the
@BBC
& other news outlets 9x more often than Farage & far-right co.
PS I know that will not happen, but we have to keep pointing out this is bias & not normal.
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I cannot fathom a world where a 96 yo woman staying dead for a week is still front page news, while 99% of the world's media is studiously ignoring the planetary scale fraud + deception perpetuated by the fossil fuel industry uncovered by the US Congress the past few days.🤡🤡🤡
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I am proud to say I hated Tarantino before it was cool. What a pathetic, abusive, crappy excuse for a human being.
American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino visits an Israeli military base near the Lebanese border, stating his support for Israel.
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A few words about decoupling of CO2 emissions from GDP. Lots of people are sharing this plot as evidence that economic growth is universally compatible with emissions reductions. And let's be clear: emissions reductions here are real AND good news. However ...
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Biden "I can't possibly convince Israel to let aid trucks through." 😢
Also Biden "Here are a bunch of trucks I convinced Israel to let through. No aid though!" 🤡
Let the starving children eat a [totally unnecessary] sea corridor, basically.
Trucks entered Gaza, however, not to extract the wounded & martyrs from under the rubble. No, Families are left to unbury their dead barehanded.
This machinery is mean to implement America’s sea corridor and impose an American-Israeli military base. 🧵
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Because here is the thing. Every. Single. Journalist. who was there (and there were many, from major outlets all over Europe and the world) that I spoke to, said "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
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#BeyondGrowth2023
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Do not mistake this for a war of religion, a regional skirmish, a particular historical blip. The powers that rule us are trying something out, and it spells out a very dangerous future for all of us - unless we successfully organise an international resistance.
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associated with Zionism, including Nakba(s), domestic & international assassinations, harassment, participation in various conflicts.
3⃣ we understand how extreme factions in the Muslim world can take over entire societies and control them by propaganda, fear, ...
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Here are some rules of this new hegemonic world order:
1. If you are on the wrong side of a border you want to cross, you & all yours will be shot and massacred.
2. If you & all yours are on a piece of land that someone else wants, your cities & villages will be destroyed, ...
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Not going to lie. Things are WAY worse in 2022 than I expected they would be. It doesn't mean all is lost, far from, but it should cause a big old rethink among all who care. Because the fault is not in our stars, or in ourselves, but in our comprehension. A Sunday morning 🧵.
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I am sure there are other examples. My point is that our pervasive Islamophobic framework of Muslim = violent, backwards, indoctrinated, fanatic, and Jewish = liberal, educated, democratic, progressive, advanced, misleads us in understanding what is happening within Israel.
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and violence (Iran, Afghanistan ...), but for Israel, we assume that it is a liberal, progressive democracy, without recognising the very same aspects of anti-democratic extremist violence and coercion at play.
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Another Public Service Announcement: you don't have to approve of this action or think it's helpful. I'm not sure I do.
However, you DO have to stand up for the rights and safety of super fucking brave youth activists doing non-violent civil resistance. Which this is.
“What is worth more, art or life? … are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people?”
@JustStop_Oil
’s activists explain their action
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
@JoeBiden
is working harder to secure Israel's genocide of Palestinians than he is to secure his own second term as president.
Gobsmacking.
The US just issued its 3rd veto in 137 days of genocide to continue it.
Against the will of 153 states which invoked Uniting for Peace twice.
Against the extraordinary invocation of Art 99 by the UNSG.
Against the ICJ ruling finding plausible genocide & a duty to prevent it
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you and yours will be killed, imprisoned, displaced.
3. If you dare protest and criticize the hegemon, you will lose everything: work, reputation, protection.
4. At every turn, you will be forced to chose sides: stay part of the hegemon ...
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Some predictions I am willing to make.
1. This infrastructure will be used for drilling and extracting fossil fuels for Western companies.
2. This infrastructure will be used for colonising Gaza with Israeli-US military and settlements.
3. Very little humanitarian aid ...
Trucks entered Gaza, however, not to extract the wounded & martyrs from under the rubble. No, Families are left to unbury their dead barehanded.
This machinery is mean to implement America’s sea corridor and impose an American-Israeli military base. 🧵
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Not entirely comfortable doing this, but Twitter is where I think my thoughts out loud, and I recently read (*) "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" by Andreas Malm, and I have ... thoughts. A 🧵, obviously.
😍 First of all, I LOVED it, which I was not expecting. It is a thoughtful ...
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This occurred to me in seeing how absolutely fanatical & glibly, triumphantly anti-human so many Israeli accounts on here are. It reminded me of the worst corners of far-right neo-Nazis, Trump & Putin supporters. These are people who sound as though they are indoctrinated ...
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If you are more upset by the left hand side than the right hand side, you might want to rethink your priorities a tad.
Just a thought.
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and align yourself with destruction, inequality, atrocities - or lose everything, become an unperson, with no power to protect those you love. At every stage, the circle of unpersons will become larger, and the pressure to conform to the hegemon more intense.
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into a cult of absolute fanaticism and violence. And my conclusion is that they *are* indoctrinated, that mainstream Zionism is such a violent fanatic ideology, but that somehow the Western world is incapable of recognising it as such because of our knee-jerk Islamophobia.
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At first, when I read these words from the Colombian President
@petrogustavo
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Global South voices - here the President of Colombia - read in the European/US support of the genocide in Gaza a blueprint, an experiment for ecofascism that 'treats us as disposable lives'.
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@ukhomeoffice
@SuellaBraverman
Once again, my father, child refugee from Nazi Germany, arrived on a boat. Criminal, shameful, anti-human by the UK government and
@SuellaBraverman
are acting squarely on the side of human-rights abusers. The worst of humanity. This is not pro-UK. This is anti-human.
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I feel like I am losing my mind. Israel clearly stated its intent to stop food, water and electricity from entering Gaza on Oct 8. How are news outlets putting "dies of starvation" in quotes in early March? I mean this is not a fucking mystery. Cause, meet consequence.
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chunk of their lives working to figure this out: with what support, with what organisations?
Anyway. Free Palestine, and may the violent blot of Zionism be lifted from everyone in our lifetimes.
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Let's be frank. Coverage of the IPCC's report on climate impacts is not what it should be. The horrors of Russia's war on Ukraine are (rightfully) sucking all the oxygen out of the room. But we need to ensure the report's messages get heard, not just today, but for days to come.
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I am almost never afraid for my physical safety. But I know being an outspoken critic of Israel is the most dangerous thing I do under my own (white, Jewish) name. Zionists are just super violent, as a normal tactic, on purpose. If they do this to Jews, imagine to Palestinians.
An Israeli photographer was assaulted by Israeli settlers after he took videos of them burning Palestinian homes.
“There were 20 or 30 of them who beat me as I shouted for help, hoping that soldiers would hear me. But they were the soldiers…”
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Just so we're clear:
1⃣ The oil, gas, coal and meat industries are proceeding full tilt with their plan of making our planet unliveable for billions, pushing our climate out of the "human niche" where we can simply exist. Our governments are complicit.
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So much sustainability research is using long fancy words to dance around the fact that the scale of global industrial society needs to be halved, and that for this to happen without mass hardship, the rich and powerful need to be confronted.
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I have been thinking about this tweet during 1 more sleepless night. "We need to act like the cavalry is not coming." - I can't think of truer words. This is true for all of us, everywhere, right now, and for coming years. What does it mean to act like the cavalry is not coming?
By the way, this freakin NYC Mayor- his lack of planning, notice or prep for extreme weather events poses a real threat - we invite you to
@UPROSE
to join in our climate adaptation planning because we need to act like the cavalry is not coming 🌻
#climatechange
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But this world order selects for selfishness, ruthlessness, sacrifice of others. So the ruling elite have nothing: no ethics, no compassion, no principles at all. Just a self-justifying belief that they got to the top by merit and violence, and that others deserve to suffer.
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And because our media and politicians are incapable of recognizing mainstream Zionism as a violent, fanatic cult, with a long history of indoctrination, terrorism and social control, they follow along and are (almost) all complicit in genocide.
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@JulesEvans11
@derspiegel
@GretaThunberg
Newsflash: Greta is an individual. She follows her own conscience, insists on always speaking freely, and has no ambitions of being the leader of anything. That role was thrust upon her. She stays the same.
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Presumably, by the same token,
@derspiegel
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@sarahnadav
@fascinatorfun
That's right, the Nazis thought that Jews were perfectly benign and lovely people and never spread wild conspiracy theories about them. This is 200% correct.
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Please don't take this the wrong way, but we are at the doorstep of absolute ecological and social disaster if we don't massively transform all our production-consumption systems & economies. Please, do not come to me with any more research projects tinkering at the margins.
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Some recent pro-Palestinian tweets went viral, so I got to be exposed to pro-Israeli accounts, some real people, some trolls. And they exhibit behaviour I remember from the good (not good) days of Holocaust denial in Europe in the 1980s. A short 🧵 which will please no one.
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The inescapable conclusion is that Israel is deliberately destroying the conditions for Palestinian life in Gaza: agriculture, fishing, water, electricity, grain storage, bakeries, health infrastructure, doctors, paramedics, aid & food delivery, and the journalists who would ...
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While
@derspiegel
minimizes and glosses over the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza as "civilians are suffering and dying", it at the same time accuses those who support Palestinian rights of "ignoring" the Oct 7 Hamas massacre "because the victims were Jewish". 🤯🤯🤯
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I should add that as a half Jewish child, with Israeli family friends, I was exposed to some of this (land without a people for a people without a land, some children's books, etc). It took contact and friendship with Palestinians to learn that this was not, by far, ....
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I have family who were murdered in the Holocaust. Now Israel's government is claiming that our dead would WANT them to keep raining death & oppression on Palestinians.
I cannot describe how awful this is.
This is over. Israel can never anymore claim to stand for Jews. Anywhere.
The grief and trauma of our people are being weaponized to justify mass murder and war crimes.
This is a desecration.
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For 3 full days the EU parliament hosted thousands of scientists, activists and policy-makers charting a future beyond growth. The talks & discussions were recorded and are now available to all. Thousands attended, thousands more followed online.
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Pretending otherwise, paying attention to the 1% words, deflection, Holocaust-washing and symbolic actions designed to draw attention away from a thorough and deliberate genocide, is evil. Because it gives protection to the genocide and the genocidaires.
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Hi. This is not true. Like seriously enormously not true. It's cute letting a celebrity billionaire be your climate policy figurehead [editor's note: it's really not], but this is straight up shouting predatory delay using the US govt as a megaphone.
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Bill Gates on climate: 'Using just today's technologies won't allow us to meet our ambitious goals'
About 45% of the carbon emissions reductions needed will come from technology that hasn't been developed yet, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo says.
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I wrote this in fucking October and every day just makes it more and more obvious how true it is. All those weapons, all those tactics, every piece and bit of it will be used against us. And then some.
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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As usual, I am probably slow in figuring this stuff out. But it's why history of different Jewish movements, the violent history of Israel, and the takeover of what is now mainstream Zionism matter so much. They are the reality. Nothing is so dangerous to a cult as reality.
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as a witness on your road to hell. There is not enough contempt in the world, not enough wise words about 'banality of evil', to accommodate the gulf between the intensity of suffering of the innocent and the cushy silent complicity of those who could have made a difference.
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Goddamn I hate having to teach university students we are dependent on plants and the biosphere to live. We should learn this in infancy. FFS what a culture. If we don't teach the basis of life as the most important topic, how do we expect to protect it?
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I had an experience that really shook me up today [and no, it wasn't a certain politician trying to discredit my whole career because of my politics 🤣, that's not even surprising any more] so I wrote about it here 👇
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the whole story. Many people here are learning a different history, but it is still not being communicated or acted upon by (most of) our media or politicians.
And another question no one dares to ask: what happens to millions of indoctrinated Zionists? What deradicalisation
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Using our genocided relatives to justify another genocide. There are no levels of hell deep enough.
This Holocaust Remembrance Day, we mourn the six million Jews who were killed by the Nazis during one of the darkest chapters in human history.
And we recommit to heeding the lessons of the Shoah and realizing the responsibility of “Never Again.”
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Hi all, woke up in the middle of the night full of climate/ecocide/world war/refugee etc angst, and decided to make lemonade, in this case a pretty diagram of my "10 basic facts for human & planetary survival." I hope you like it.
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Greece and Libya, days apart. Entire areas devastated, city neighbourhoods obliterated, agriculture production gone. But tell me again how climate scientists are "alarmist". Go on.
I honestly cannot describe how angry I am at this ENTIRELY PREVENTABLE devastation and suffering.
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program could possibly work at that scale? These are people joyfully convinced & complicit in the worst violence. Facing reality would shatter their selves, their ways of life, the foundations of their existence. Many former Zionists will have to spend a considerable ...
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This is insane verging on criminal and shows the dangerous ideology of economic growth as our secular religion, completely blinding us to the possible economic alternatives that could preserve a liveable planet. But it is the current reality.
So please. I am not good at this.
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1⃣ "Do you think this report will help people act?"
You, as media, informing citizens, inspiring activists, & holding politicians and business to account will "help people to act." Stop passing the buck to scientists, the worst communicators on 🌍, and take some responsibility.
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Topics covered planetary boundaries, trade, finance, fiscal policy, global South, decolonisation, gender, justice, well-being, social policies. Every panel included major advances in understanding. Together, the conference represents a monumental coming of age of post-growth.
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Then they decide to revive the big lie that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction ... in order to complain about leftist neglect of Israel in the past?
I kid you not.
Using imaginary weapons to make up a fake grievance to bolster demented accusations of antisemitism.
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I don't know why people are trying to make a huge fuss about whether or not 1.5 degrees is still within reach or not. It makes ZERO difference to what we need to do, which is cancel fossil fuels and animal-based agriculture ASAP.
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Ah, sorry, my mistake.
@derspiegel
actually mentions Palestinian civilians TWICE. The second time is ... in a quote by Bernd Riexinger, a lone sane voice in German politics.
@derspiegel
is quick to reassure us this sane view is quite marginal in Germany. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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We know some of you. Respectable high level academics and politicians, pundits and media darlings. In years to come, perhaps, you will remember you know us too, and try to come cry on our shoulders about how complicated it all was.
May every child who dies tonight stand...
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At some level, I always knew some people can become genocidal. This is not particularly rare in our history. What I didn't realise was how many more people would twist themselves into knots to facilitate the actions of the genocidaires. Like those knots were their real shape.
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Let that sink in.
Rather than forcing their ally Israel to
1. let aid in &
2. abide by international law,
the US is forcing Palestinians to
1. receive less aid &
2. give up on international law.
Truly depraved, no return, levels of evil. The US means nothing but oppression.
The bill Congress just passed:
–Cuts funding to UNRWA
–Sends Israel another $3.8 billion
–Limits aid to the Palestinian Authority if "the Palestinians" initiate or support an International Criminal Court investigation against Israel "for alleged crimes against Palestinians"
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One thing that upsets me almost more than all others: when discussing food shortages as part of climate impacts, no media ever says the obvious: we feed 1/2 of the human-edible calories we grow to livestock.
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The words of a friend ring in my ears. They used to work in extreme conflict zones, now they work with billionaires to try to make them aware of the climate crisis. "It's a world of the most extreme violence" is what my friend told me, "I have seen nothing like it before."
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3. And yes, of course Israel is well on its way to committing wholesale genocide in Gaza as multiple actual experts in international law and human rights have explained. One of those 6 journalists could even have picked up the phone to call them?
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I don't know how to state it more simply: The planet we could live on safely and stably is dying in more & more cataclysmic ways all around us, and the only way to stop it is to end fossil fuels, meat and deforestation.
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And I haven't even gotten into any of their petty and just mean-spirited maligning of Greta Thunberg herself, including ablism, accusing her of being simultaneously shallow and gullible AND machiavelian and overly influential. It's just ugh.
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My mom wanted me to share this New Yorker cartoon by Maddie Dai with yall.
Caption: “You four have been iconic, but we’ve found a guy who can do it in half the time and at half the cost.”
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No words.
#WaterCrisis
“40% of India’s population will have no access to drinking water by 2030, the report said.”
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2⃣ "Is it too late to act on climate? When will it be too late to act on climate?"
It will never be too late to act, as the incomparable
@ClimateAdam
put it, in the same way it will never be too late to stop punching ourselves in the face.
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Yet this pretence is what so many of our politicians, commentators and journalists see as their full-time job, since the start. And it is pure evil.
There is no way to look at the balance of evidence, the words and actions that matter in terms of actions on the ground ...
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Hi. Waves. It has come to my attention that some economists are going around saying 3 degrees warming is optimal. This is :
1) Genocidal. IPCC WG2 says that 2 degrees is already beyond adaptation FFS. 3 degrees is mass death for sure.
2) Extremely bad science ...
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