Robin Boardman
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@ExtinctionR Cofounder ~ Telling The Truth and Acting On It ~ Turn on Notifications for News and Action👇 Sign Up on my Website for Insights & Stories
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I visited @RogerHallamCS21 in prison today. He’s serving a 5-year prison sentence for organising a peaceful protest against climate collapse. That’s the longest sentence for nonviolent action since WW2. After working through the cold halls and sniffer dogs, I found him in the
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This is how the Government treats those who tell the truth.
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The web of life is crumbling - we’re losing species 5,000 times faster than normal.
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We called it Extinction Rebellion for a reason. The extinction is here - so where's the rebellion?
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A chief world scientist says we’re on track for 3-5C of warming. That's an uninhabitable world.
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The average resident of Mali has the same carbon footprint as a British kettle 🍵 .The average resident of Nigeria has a smaller carboon footprint than an American fridge 🧊 . Africa has contributed so little to climate disruption, yet suffers so much. @dwallacewells nails it 👇
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🚨 25,000 people are blocking a Dutch motorway demanding end to fossil fuel subsidies. 👇 This is what civil resistance to the climate crisis looks like.
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It's time for the hyper-consumption of our society to die. The endless grasping for more, more, more is exhausting the human spirit. We are so much more than what we consume—the cars, the gadgets, the clothes. They are all symptoms of the loneliness capitalism instils in us. We
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It’s simple: polluters must pay for the destruction they’re causing.
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A new mini ice age is coming for northern Europe, with winter temperatures dropping by 10°C to 30°C within a century. Crops will fail, and famine will grow. Why is no one talking about this?
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The average resident of Mali has the same carbon footprint as a British kettle 🍵 .The average resident of Nigeria has a smaller carboon footprint than an American fridge 🧊 . Africa has contributed so little to climate disruption, yet suffers so much. @dwallacewells nails it 👇
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Iran is reaching the limit of human survival as temperatures hit 66C (152F) 💀. This is what the Extinction in Extinction Rebellion means. If temperatures increase above 5C globally, we face an existential risk. Everyone gone. Forever. Don't let it happen. Rebel for Life.
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The Dutch Rebellion continues! 🇳🇱. Water cannons will not stop their resistance 🚿. It will be a tale to tell to all their children. What will you tell yours?. (They are putting bags on their lower backs to protect from kidney damage 🎒).
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Britain will be The Day After Tomorrow - frozen and fucked! Why is no one talking about this?
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Reform UK isn’t a party. It’s a gateway to fossil fuel fascism.
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Climate protestors are in jail because the billionaire media demanded changes to the law. Shadowy think tanks, funded by fossil fuels, drafted that law. Corrupt politicians passed it. Then judges gave jail sentences without allowing a defence. This is not a democracy.
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Another friend sentenced to prison today. Pat and I have organised together for years - doorknocking and raising local awareness of climate collapse. A doctor by day and a community champion by night. Now he’s been sentenced to a year in prison for disrupting an Esso petrol
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This hothouse earth will quickly break tipping points into 4C and 5C. That's civilisation's end game, and we're bang on track for it. How will you live your life in these last moments? In community and resistance or individual nihilism? That's the choice.
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"Imagine a Fire broke out in the Corner of the Studio" 🔥. @OwenJones84 brilliantly confronts @GMB on its reporting of the world's hottest ever week and @JustStop_Oil. It's time for the Corporate Media to step up and Tell the Truth. We need system change. Now.
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"I don't want to know what I can do to reduce my estimated 0.00000005 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions. 👣 . I want to know what's Big Oil doing to phase out the 73 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that they empower." 🛢️ .
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In Gaza a heatwave has exceeded the seasonal norm by as much as 13°C. 1.5m people are living in inhumane conditions, staying in tents which “feel like greenhouses,” that risk being bombed at any minute. This is hell on earth.
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This is mass murder, but don't worry, the Guardian has a nice picture of fountains for a hot day.
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Day 25 of relentless courage in the Dutch Rebellion! 🇳🇱 . The heroes march forward, undeterred by water cannons or violence, in our fight to end fossil fuel subsidies. They are paving the way for a liveable future. Thank them with a Retweet! 🙌.
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Day 23 in the Hague 🇳🇱. They cannot be stopped, but fossil subsidies can.
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"Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed. This out of control. Join the rebellion.
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“On our current path, civilisation as we know it will disappear” says former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government.
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My friend Sue upholds her moral duty to protect life—so naturally, the system tries to silence her. In a society that puts profit over people, standing for justice comes with a price.
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Yes. Temperature drops of 10 to 30C this century. Say goodbye to our crops.
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Judge Herir sentenced my friends to years in prison for peaceful protest. Now it’s time to put him on trial.
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📢 BREAKING: Five more @JustStop_Oil supporters jailed for up to three years. After the 21-year collective sentence for the #WholeTruthFive, this is a huge deal. How did this happen? Let's break it down.🧵
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The Wall of Wildfires in Argentina 🔥. How shocking must the images be before we stop burning fossil fuels?.
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This has to be our top priority. “We have reached what I call a saturation point where we hit the ceiling of the biophysical capacity of the Earth system to remain in its stable state. We are approaching tipping points". - Prof Johan Rockström .
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Over 100 dead in Mexico from sweltering heatwave of 50C (120F) 🌡️. This is going to be a hard summer.
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The Dutch Rebellion has formed a motorway blockade between Parliament and the so-called Minstry of Green Growth to protest Fossil Fuel Subsidies. This is civil resistance!
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The average resident of Mali has the same carbon footprint as a British kettle 🍵 .The average resident of Nigeria has a smaller carboon footprint than an American fridge 🧊 . Africa has contributed so little to climate disruption, yet suffers so much. @dwallacewells nails it 👇
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The world is on the brink of multiple disastrous tipping points. Either we #rebelforlife or fall into a death spiral.
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Radical Suggestion: Don’t jail peaceful protestors.
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I rallied thousands today to rebel for life. My legs shook as I spoke of species loss, friends in prison, and environmental protectors being murdered. Then the crowd gave me strength. Their rebellion of love and passion can overcome the genocidal forces destroying our planet.
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It's the HOTTEST DAY EVER for the 4th day in a row! 🌡️ . This is chaos. Politics has failed. Only nonviolent direct action can change our course 🕊️ . Today, we blocked an illegal coal mine in the UK ⛔ . What will you do?
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“It is important that institutions like the British Museum do not give Big Oil the opportunity to look like a force for good in society; denying them this platform is important.” 🚫 .- Ahdaf Soueif, who resigned as a museum trustee in protest.
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Providing insurance to fossil fuel companies while denying coverage for climate disasters is murder. We’ll resist until they Insure Our Survival!
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Record low levels of sea ice in Antarctica could transform from it from Earth's refrigerator to radiator 🥵. Meanwhile Rishi Sunak is backing down on Net Zero and skipping the UN's climate crisis summit 😮💨 . This Government is sending us young people to an early grave.
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UK grain harvests are down 13% because our Government fails to cut emissions. Plates will go empty and people will demand a revolution. This is another domino in motion.
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Smoking is harmful. Increasing emissions is a death sentence.
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"Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed. This out of control. Join the rebellion.
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🧑🔬Scientists like @ClimateHuman have been ignored for decades. ☠️They're now telling us that heatwaves could kill millions in days. What's the global elite response?.Fossil fuels, fossil fuels, fossil fuels🛢️. What's our response?.Civil resistance! ✊.
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This article should not exist. I can't believe my eyes. Top scientists now say that a billion lives are on the line. That's an evil beyond any human project ever - equivalent to 166 holocausts. And yet, this is my generation's future - unless we act.
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This isn't just a dry policy. It's the foundation of a democratic revolution.
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Burma just recorded its hottest ever April at 48.2C (118F) 🌡️. 1000s of schools across Southeast Asia have closed. By 2100, 3 to 6 billion could live in unhabitable regions. It's either a revolution against the carbon regime or the slow extinction of our species. You choose.
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This has to be our top priority. “We have reached what I call a saturation point where we hit the ceiling of the biophysical capacity of the Earth system to remain in its stable state. We are approaching tipping points". - Prof Johan Rockström .
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1 million views in 4hrs. People are outraged. We’re looking at front pages all across the UK tomorrow. We will not go down without a fight.
I've just been sentenced to 5 years in prison. The longest ever for nonviolent action. The 'crime'?. Giving a talk on civil disobedience as an effective, evidence-based method for stopping the elite from putting enough carbon in the atmosphere to send us to extinction. I have
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Yes, we’re at war - but not with wildfires. We’re at war with the carbon elite who are fuelling the fires and leaving us dead in their wake.
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“So many bodies of casualties of the heat have arrived at the mortuary that its capacity has been exceeded”.
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A new report from the US Gov warns that climate change could impose “substantial financial costs”. A no-brainer.but until recently most economists had been arguing that a growing economy would outpace any damage. Now reality is starting to hit home 📉 .
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It's civil disobedience now or running for our lives later.
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Rather than slowly braking towards net zero, we need to be aiming for a net negative📉. We need to slam on the brakes as quickly as possible and then use all our carbon sinks, like forests, oceans and wetlands, to bring those concentrations back down to safe levels 🌲.
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Here are the facts:. 1. The Amazon rainforest historically, has never burned-it's too wet and humid. 2. So far this year, an area the size of Italy has burned in Brazil. (These fires are mostly started by locals wanting to clear land to raise cattle to supply China, the US, and.
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@Keir_Starmer No - millions dying from air pollution and heatwaves is outrageous. Something your pathetic, power pandering party will only continue.
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FUCK YES!. This is how change works 👇. Retweet to thank the Dutch for a month of tirelessly action 👏.
💥 Protests suspended: Civil resistance works!. In The Hague @NLRebellion has been blocking a highway for weeks. The demand: Stop the fossil fuel subsidies!. ✊ Because of the protests, on Tuesday there will be a vote in the House of Representatives on the end of the subsidies.
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This hothouse earth will quickly break tipping points into 4C and 5C. That's civilisation's end game, and we're bang on track for it. How will you live your life in these last moments? In community and resistance or individual nihilism? That's the choice.
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“I’m reminded of the topsy-turvy world we’re in. It should not be the grandmothers on trial, it should be the oil industry, it should be those people who are making massive profits off the destruction of all of our futures.” .@ExtinctionNZ .
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Imprisoned for Marching!. What has this nation come to?.
⛓️ PHOEBE PLUMMER GIVEN 6 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR MARCHING. 🧡 Phoebe, 22, has just been remanded to prison until 16.05.2024. Their crime? Marching in protest against new oil and gas. 🧑⚖️ Phoebe is one of six Just Stop Oil supporters imprisoned in the last 14 days. When asked by
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💨 33 million are choking in India. Air pollution kills 8 million people annually. In Delhi, it has shortened lives by an average of 10 years. Across the world it has shortened the average life by a year. When will the smoke stop? .When we rise up against fossil fuels.
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This is my friend Pat - another resistor who faces losing their job for telling the truth. How many more good people will Starmer’s Britain purge?
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This is how neoliberal politicians stab you in the back. One year, they say they will champion your cause and you elect them as the lesser of two evils,. Then they pander to Big Business and turn on you. Remember this was the man who spoke out in support of Extinction
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A wave of student action is breaking out across the UK 🇬🇧. Bristol, Oxford, Exeter and now Falmouth. Don't miss out on the drama it's all leading up to. Sign up below👇.
🚨 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:
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Prisons too full for criminals? No problem—just fast-track those nonviolent protesters instead.
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BREAKING: @RogerHallamCS21 & @IndigoRumbelow were arrested at 6am this morning by @metpoliceuk for "Conspiracy to Cause a Public Nuisance" 🚓. Indigo was also charged with not attending her "voluntary" police interview🤦♂️. Both are regular spokespeople for @JustStop_Oil 🙊.
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Yet they are still turning out on force for day 15! 🇳🇱. They will disrupt everyday until the Dutch Government end it's €3billion subsidies for fossil fuels 🛢️. This is how change happens!
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Stride into your Thursday with Dutch courage🍻. Out for Day 26! 😯. They can't be stopped but fossil fuel subsidies can.
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2023 is going to break the 1.5C Paris Agreement. We're royally fucked. Governments have failed to protect us. It's time for a nonviolent revolution.
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"The extremes, which can be fatal to healthy people within six hours, could affect hundreds of millions of people unused to such conditions.". Read that again. It's mass death like we've never seen before ☠️ . The way to stop it?.Civil resistance✊ .
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Would you put a flat-earther on live TV @SkyNews?. No? Then why platform this #ClimateScam conspiracist?.
💀 In a real life Don't Look Up, @SkyNews are platforming genocidal cheerleaders now. ❌ Just Stop Oil will not enter into any “debates” about agreed climate science. 🦺 Join us in civil resistance — ➡️
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🪧Criminalisation of Climate Protest . 🇬🇧 Years in Prison.🇳🇱 Sedition .🇩🇪 Bank accounts and Websites seized .🇮🇹 Anti-Mafia Police Unit used .🇫🇷 Groups banned .🇸🇪 A month in prison for roadblocks . All countries have failed to keep us under 1.5C. Where is the justice? ⚖️
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Beijing suffers its hottest June day EVER at 41C 🌡️. Meanwhile two environmentalists were assassinated in Mexico and Earth Uprising have been outlawed in France. This is where the world is heading. Only nonviolent revolution can turn it around.
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Without its ice cooling the planet, Antarctica could transform from Earth's refrigerator to a radiator 🥵. How a story with such dire global implications falls under the Brand drama is startling.
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"Terrifying, uncharted territory" - US Ambassador on Climate 😨 . The consequences of world's hottest week are innumerable. What we do know:.- 50 died in Pakistan mudslides 🌊 .- 18 Indians died in torrential rains ⛈️ . Join the rebellion before this spirals out of control.
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Rather than slowly braking towards zero emmissions, we need to be aiming for a net negative. We need to slam on the brakes as quickly as possible and then use all our carbon sinks, like forests, oceans and wetlands, to bring those concentrations back down to safe levels 🍀.
A 🧵on why UK emissions targets are far from sufficient for 1.5°C, or anything close. The media is focused on the Delivery Gap, but we really need to talk about the #AmbitionGap whilst there's still time to close it. 1/
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"It's death at the scale of the holocaust every single year" .- @DWallaceWells. 10 million deaths from air pollution ☠️.The key culprit? Fossil fuels.
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2023 will the Hottest in 125,000 Years 🌡️ . October records have been shattered. Today, flooding displaced 300,000 in Somalia. 43,000 died from the drought there last year. Meanwhile, Big Oil is pumping away ☠️ . It's War on Humanity. Resist. Before your're the next statistic.
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Crush peaceful protest at home, back atrocities abroad — what has the UK become?
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If there are only two words on my gravestone, I want them to be "We Tried"🪦.
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500 wildfires blaze across Canada 🔥 .1/3rd of the US is under an air pollution alert ⚠️ .100 million are also under heat warnings 🥵 . When will the media step up and start connecting this to the climate crisis? . It's time to @EndClimtSilence 🙊
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Big Oil is getting filthy rich on our planet’s demise. How about you?
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🌡️ We just broke 2C. 🌊 130+ died in the Horn of Africa from "Once in Century" Floods. 🏚️ 750,000 people have been displaced. 🔥 "Unprecedented" Wildfires sweep across Bolivia. This is just the beginning. Rebel. Before it's too late.
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This is how change happens!🎊.
What a WIN!! After 27 days of A12 blockades and more than 9,000 arrests, the Lower House asks the cabinet for a phase-out plan for fossil fuel subsidies. Civil disobedience works! We will stay sharp and are ready for new actions. #StopFossilFuelSubsidies.
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Imagine that during the London blitz, the British debated whether the country was at war. Imagine those who called for resistance being labelled alarmists who depressed the public. This is climate emergency. Let's act like it. - @XRRebel.
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