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Mary Annaïse Heglar

@MaryHeglar

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Author of The World is Ours to Cherish (children's book) & Troubled Waters (novel). On IG (way more often): @mary .heglar 📚: @adamschear , 🗣️: @tuesdayagency

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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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When we’re “back to normal,” i want to open a bed and breakfast only for women suffering from burn out. I’m gonna call it Resting Bitch Place.
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can't stop thinking about how the national guard is out in Minnesota right now but wasn't at the Capitol in January
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3 months
Just watched a documentary on the Nuremberg trials and they talked about how the big game-changing moment was when they showed footage of nazi crimes. And I can’t stop thinking about how we now have a live-streamed genocide and the world continues to spin.
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Becoming very clear that by “peace” so many people mean “quiet”
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4 years
Has it occurred to anyone that the main reason people are having trouble working from home this week is because there’s a global pandemic and an economic meltdown all against the background of ecological collapse?
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3 years
It’s really fucking heartbreaking how the fossil fuel industry has framed us for our own murder
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5 years
My wish for 2020 is for people to stop asking climate activists what gives us hope and start asking “how can I help?”
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
2 months
The book you’re looking for is called Parable of the Sower and it’s by Octavia Butler.
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So when my coupled friends ask me how dating is going, is it appropriate for me to ask how their marriage/relationship is going or is that aggressive?
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5 years
There is only one way to properly thank a climate activist: join them.
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5 years
I don’t know what’s more disturbing: this guttural, primal instinct that everything is falling apart everywhere, that the world is literally on fire...or the fact that I woke up, got dressed, left for work and am now on a very normal train on a very normal day.
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One of the key hallmarks of a white-dominated work culture is when they don’t communicate your goals until they tell you that you didn’t meet them.
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So sick of hearing that government "inaction" brought about climate change. They acted: they subsidized fossil fuel companies, gave them leases, spouted their misinformation, criminalized protest. Nothing about that is passive.
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I want the genocide to end and I want Donald Trump to lose. These are not competing priorities.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
White men think everything is 1984. White women think everything is Handmaids Tale. It’s clearly Parable of the Sower.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
What y’all think Mississippi looks like vs what it actually looks like.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 months
I have to constantly remind people that Kyle Rittenhouse is GenZ. So are the kids from all over the world signing up to join the IDF.
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Charles W McKinney, Jr.
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All the people in this photo are the same generation - activists and segregationists. Stop saying youth automatically breeds enlightenment. It doesn't. Young people will not save us. Rather, they will choose whether or not to join what King called "the beautiful struggle.”
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
really can't believe "he hits you because he likes you" was ever an acceptable thing for an adult to say to a child
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
It’s not that are governments are “doing nothing about climate change.” It’s that our governments are “doing climate change.”
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
2 years
If you're worried that it's too late to do anything about climate change and we should all just give up, I have great news for you: that day is not coming in your lifetime. As long as you have breath in your body, you will have work to do.
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3 years
Someone is going to have to clean this up, and I promise they didn't deserve it.
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Climate activists are coming to dump over a dozen wheelbarrows of cow poop at the White House to protest Biden’s “bullshit” climate plan #EarthDay
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I know there's a lot going on right now, but this should be way, way, WAY bigger news
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Wanting a livable planet is not an ideology. It’s survival instinct.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
2 years
if you're gonna have a climate protest at a museum, I feel like it ought to be about returning stolen art/artifacts to colonized nations and pointing out the connections between climate change and colonialism, not... this...
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Activists with @JustStop_Oil have thrown tomato soup on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the national Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: climate defeatism is just as dangerous as climate denialism.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
Idk how I’m supposed to believe that it’s easier to turn mars into earth than it is to turn earth back into earth
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
There’s nothing radical about preserving a habitable planet. It’s literally the bare fucking minimum
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
2 years
for anyone who needs to hear it.... the problem is not a dependence on "foreign" oil. THE PROBLEM IS A DEPENDENCE ON OIL!!!!
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
Don’t worry about whether we’re doomed or not. Worry about what you stand for. And stand for it.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
Everyone saying they want to come: I hope you’re okay with staying a week after you’ve recovered to help take care of another burnt out woman!
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4 years
When white women say “we’re living through the Handmaid’s Tale” all I hear is “I haven’t read Parable of the Sower”
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Kinda worried about all the people who have already forgotten this happened
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@BP_plc Bitch what’s yours???
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
It’s not “wacky weather.” It’s the climate crisis, and media outlets should say so.
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2 years
You know who’s not watching the queens funeral? Anyone in Puerto Rico. You know why? Climate change. You know how we got climate change? Colonialism.
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"When we love the earth, we are able to love ourselves more fully."--bell hooks
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If you were wondering how badly we're doing on communicating the climate crisis to regular people, I talked to a woman yesterday who fully knew climate change was a clear and present danger and she turned to me and asked, in all sincerity, "so what do you think is causing it?"
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
2 years
As much as we talk shit about Twitter, it really is a space where people have been able to organize and build community and push the discourse around things like prison abolition and climate justice so... idk... maybe tanking it is the point?
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3 years
I'm getting real sick of this framing of climate change as the "challenge of our generation." Ain't gone be no more generations if we fuck this up. This is the challenge of our species.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
It’s fucking wild to me that the fossil fuel industry convinced folks that digging up FOSSILS and setting them on FIRE and POISONING people in the short and long term was cool, but getting energy from wind and the sun is just “too radical” and “too hard.”
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Every time I hear “but how do we message on climate change without being divisive” I hear “how do we win without fighting”
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
Yesterday my friend in California texted randomly to see how I was doing. She had no idea about the hurricane because she’d been preoccupied with the fires. This is climate change.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
Apparently people still need to hear this, so 🗣🗣🗣A PANDEMIC IS NOT A CLIMATE SOLUTION🗣🗣🗣
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
5 years
The time has come to switch support from Liz to Bernie. The hardest thing about this decision is knowing Liz deserved better. But I’m enthusiastic about Bernie and I feel great about this choice.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Hurricane Ida and Caldor Fire are not “previews of climate change.” They are the view.
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Reminder that everyone you interact with is hitting a pandemic wall all their own
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
It’s really disconcerting to see people going after each other in light of today’s awful climate news so I’d like to remind you that the earth is not “dying,” it’s being kill and the people doing it have named and address…and Twitter handles.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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The fact that I can say "I hate genocide" and people can hear "I love Trump" tells me RFK ain't the only one with brain worms out here
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
A lot of people are warning about my idea being stolen. People, this was a joke I thought of while I was finishing my coffee this morning. I’m not about to do this shit. If someone else wants to, all I ask is that you let me know so I can book a room.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
Y’all. It happened. I have arrived.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
5 years
For folks who think Bloomberg’s saving grace is that he’s “good on climate”...you can’t be good on climate and shitty on race. That’s not a thing.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
I think we need to talk about how all these compounding crises are affecting the aging process. Because every “elderly millennial” I know is in the throes of a midlife crisis.
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"Seeing" is supposed to be "believing." But that hasn't been true in our world for a long, long time. From climate change to election results to pandemics and, now, to genocide.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Raise your hand if you’re still pissed about this
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The Gulf of Mexico is literally on fire because a pipeline ruptured
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I just feel like the tone here is really missing the point of how tragic and terrifying this is….
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Wow! Check out the flood waters in Flagstaff dragging a car down the road! Source: Taylor Landy
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Every interaction is passive aggressive, not only because they’re averse to conflict but because they think you’re not smart enough to notice
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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The climate crisis is not our fault, but it is our responsibility.
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It has never made sense that the climate movement and the anti-war movement were separate things.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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I don’t know what to do other than raise awareness and cry
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a reminder that the amazon forest has been on fire for 3 weeks now and because of the lack of media coverage people don’t know about it. this is one of most important ecosystems on earth
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I want more of us to understand that the people standing in the way of climate action 1000 percent know that climate change is real
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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legit never been this happy to see an old white man get a promotion IN MY LIFE
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So were all clear: there already is a price on carbon. It’s just that the wrong people are paying it.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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To be clear: I am not going to work today because I want to escape the crisis or because I don't care. I'm going because, like presumably most of you, I have bills to pay and that doesn't disappear because the world is on fire. That, my friends, is where the absurdity lies.
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Escorted. By. The. Police.
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I think it’s good, actually, for media outlets to be biased in favor of a livable planet.
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@jack Great! Now can you get these fuck ass fossil fuel ads out my face?
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
4 years
Two big differences between today's protests and this summer's protests in DC.... 1. the police were way more violent this summer. 2. the protesters are way more armed today.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
I just want people to understand that the people who tell you a very clear injustice—from climate change to Israeli apartheid—is too complicated for you to understand are usually the people who benefit from your silence. It’s not complicated. They just want you complicit.
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“You’re so emotional” is not an insult. It’s a compliment. Why, yes I am in tune with my emotions. Yes, I have managed to resist societal pressure to sacrifice my humanity and become dead inside. Thank you for noticing.
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Anybody wishing 2020 would hurry up and end so we can get to 2021 has not been reading climate reports
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Not to mention the performative listening, where they “hear you” and they hen go do the exact same shit they were going to do but now they can tell everyone they “talked” to you before they did it
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5 years
Today is the not the anniversary of women’s suffrage. It is the anniversary of white women’s suffrage.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
As much as it’s fun to make fun of other people and to fancy yourself morally or intellectually superior, we are not still in this pandemic because of individual character flaws. We are here because of catastrophic systemic failures.
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Seaspiracy is such a frustrating documentary. Like how do you look at a systemic problem like plastics in the ocean and come to the bottom line of....everybody should go vegan?
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Sometimes I read tragic headline after tragic headline and I don’t know whether my heart is breaking or I am
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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The whole idea that climate change is more important that every other issue doesn’t make sense because climate change IS every other issue.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Y'all don't seem to realize that these kids only seem fearless because they're scared shitless.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Not sure everyone understands that a second Tr*mp term will not be like the first. It will be much, much worse.
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
3 years
Quiet as its kept, the global decline of democracy and the global increase in temperature are not unrelated
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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I suspect that people’s “shut down” around the climate crisis has less to do with the enormity and severity of the problem than with the overemphasis on personal responsibility for such a severe and enormous problem. Just a hunch.
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If you point out a clear problem (like being excluded from meetings or passed over for promotion), they respond with how they feel about you (we all like you and value you)
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Mary Annaïse Heglar
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Tom Steyer, sweetie, honey, pudding pop... if you want to “fight” for racial justice and climate justice, drop the fuck out and put your money to good use.
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And I’d like to remind you that those people in those blue counties have been told for literal decades that their vote didn’t matter cause they were in a red state. Lot of the time the Dem party doesn’t even run candidates down there. Imagine if that changed?
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How did the survival of life on earth become a partisan issue tho?
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One time, when my former boss found out where I went to college, she exclaimed “good for you! You broke that barrier!” And I had to tell her that I’m fifth generation college and both my parents had advanced degrees from Ivy League schools. I think about that a lot.
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Ladies, if he can’t appreciate your fruit jokes, you need to let that mango.
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Ladies, I’ve been trying this thing out where every time I’m about to say “sorry,” I correct it to “actually.” Instead of “sorry, I have a question,” I say “actually, I have a question.” Gotta say, it’s changing the game.
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I don't think we talk enough about how surreal it is for the planet to be on fire, everyone knows it's on fire, but the people in power can't be bothered to do anything meaningful about it
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The oil and gas industry is gaslighting you
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📊 What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions? #EnergyDebate
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Fossil fuel companies: literally turn the planet into a living hell Also fossil fuel companies: why🥺is 😢everyone 😭so 😢mean 😭to😭 me😭??
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Like, what’s the plan to un-brainwash half the fucking country?
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I have such a problem with this framing. There were teen climate activists BEFORE Greta. And, I cannot ignore that those activists were—AND ARE—largely young women of color. You can celebrate Greta without erasing them. It is very possible.
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Enough with the “children and grandchildren” trope. I don’t need a time machine to see climate change. All I need is a window.
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I just feel like the ocean being on fire should have been a bigger scandal
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@TheYoungScot @CaseyExplosion Can you open it somewhere far...far, far away?
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Climate deniers be like: I see you’re railing against fossil fuels, but typing on an iPhone. How quaint. Well, Charles, I notice that you breathe air and drink water, but could give a fuck about a livable planet. So...who’s the real hypocrite here?
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I hit 20k followers today and that feels like a lot. I assume at least some of y’all hit follow because you want to hear a black womans perspective on climate. If that’s you, I have great news for you: I’m not alone. Thread of other black climate ladies coming NOW!
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I met bell hooks in college. she had come to visit oberlin (where she had been writer in residence shortly before). when one of the students asked her why she left, she sighed and said "there was just nobody here i wanted to fuck!" she was hilarious and brilliant. RIP.
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You can't be a billionaire and a climate hero at the same time. That's not a thing.
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Raise your hand if you’re overwhelmed and feeling like you’re letting everyone down. 🙋🏽‍♀️
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