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🌎"Leaders can't kick the can any further. We're out of road." 🤔How many more of these statements do we need to see before we realise these are not the leaders we need? 🗣️"A failure of #leadership, a betrayal of the vulnerable" - not just our children and next generations, that includes me and you. 🏡Planetary collapse is happening now. We need to "reverse course" now and "move away from polluting coal, oil and gas." Antonio Guterres commented yesterday. "#COP28 must set us up for dramatic climate action now." Now. The time is now. ❓Want to take action? Politicians attending COP need to see thousands of voters demanding change in their home countries. Call your representatives and join a climate justice march in your home city." "Action is the best antidote to despair." 📷@RTE News

❓Why did I spend last Sunday walking behind this horse-drawn coffin? Why did I allow a journalist to describe me having a breakdown in public? Truth be told, I don't think there's anything left to do but grieve the collapse of our 'civilisation'. There is nothing civilised about the atrocities we are witnessing globally. Nothing. 💡As a humanist and climate researcher I witness a lot of humanitarian breakdown -  we now have 43 countries in Famine or on the brink thereof according to the World Food Program, and we have a jaw-dropping 110 armed conflicts as reported by Geneva Academy of IHL (reminder: we only have ~200 countries globally). The speed of humanitarian collapse is terrifying, and it will continue unless we all take a stand against militaries. 💣 The US Department of Defense is "the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the world" and unsurprisingly, the world’s militaries refuse to declare their GHG emissions. Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) estimate that the industries providing military equipment create 6% of all global emissions in 2022, that's more than the entire country of Portugal's emissions in one year. So, the more conflicts we have, the quicker our biosphere collapses and life on this planet ceases for all of us. 💔 War is killing us all. To me, there are no binaries in any conflict - I stand with the innocent on all sides. This is history repeating itself and is exactly what happened to the Irish people by the British during our war. Has humanity learnt nothing? 🩸It was the blood-stained shoes and tiny shrowded body shapes which completely floored me on Sunday. No innocent civilian deserves to suffer under imperialist, colonial policies and all people sanctioning bloodshed need to be stopped. Now. Can we hold multiple truths at the same time — that both Israeli and Palestinian civilians are suffering greatly, and that those in power couldn't care less who dies? 🕯️President Pedro of Colombia's words haunt me - "we are going to barbarism if we do not change power. The life of humanity depends on the way in which humanity chooses the path to overcome the climate crisis produced by the wealth of the north. Gaza is just the first experiment in considering us all disposable." 🙄 Read that again. Disposable. Are you disposable? It's time we all take a stand for peace, and for eachother, irrespective of religion, race or national identity. Unless we ourselves want to be "disposed of" by the political elite and oligarchs of this broken world. Are you willing to demand cultures of care and compassion for your family, and all families? 🕊️ Peace demonstrations are happening throughout the globe this weekend for all innocent people, will you have the courage to show up and demand change?

Two Genocides for greed. Are we becoming heartless ? Their only crime is to be born in places where the powerful forces need to keep their power.

There are concerning reports that content posted by Palestinians and advocates of Palestinian rights are being subject to potentially discriminatory content moderation by social media platforms. As Israel intensifies its unprecedented bombardment and expansion of ground attacks of Gaza that has killed thousands, most of whom are civilians, we are extremely concerned by reports of partial blocking and removal, known as ‘shadow banning’, of content from advocates of Palestinian rights.

This is happening in the DRC right now. To my Alkebulan brothers and sisters on the continent and in the Diaspora this should be our focus ✨️ A capitalist war on the Alkebulan that no one is talking about. People are being displaced off their land right now as sponsored conflicts are happening to keep the locals running while they exploit the conflict to get access to the minerals. We cannot continue like this 😪 😔 Why do we have to make people suffer then exploit their misery 😔 😕 Why are there conflicts in our world? We are #Ubuntu "I am because you are, you are because I am". Seeing things like this carry on breaks my heart. Are we ever going to stop this? Or are they the collateral damage that no one cares about. 💔 😢 "Alkebulan" the face of suffering to feed the insatiable capitalist consumerism economy's and corporations. #Oladelesthougths #Africa #africadiaspora #electricvehicles #capitalism

Genocide is ongoing in Congo 🇨🇩 right now but we have no media coverage because the media decide on what we should give our attention to. This is what exploitation and occupation look like. They give no interest to anyone as far as it’s making the system which is creating hell on earth more powerful . Meanwhile the same time Félix Tshisekedi the president of the democratic republic of Congo 🇨🇩 is firmly standing with Israel 🇮🇱 in his aggression to Palestine 🇵🇸. Irony!!! The same country which has been torn apart and which is still bleeding 🩸 for the sake of imperialism is even completely forgot and left behind to its own fate by the world. Neocolonialism has no race, identity nor religion. It’s a ♟ game and that’s why the free people of the world need to come together to break it from the earth. We need to resist together to preserve humanity for the children of today and the next generation.

BREAKING AGAIN: Zoe has just been unsuspended. Thank you so much to the many many people who immediately stepped up on this issue in support of Zoe and contacted LinkedIn. Who knows what was going on behind the scenes. In any case let us hope this platform remains a place where professionals feel able to express views and deal with difficult and emotive issues. Heaven help us if it goes the way of Twitter. 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚 BREAKING: Prominent climate activist, with large following, removed from this platform without - it would seem - any explanation. Zoe Cohen is missing. Please help bring her back. She has, if I recall, a folllowing of some 30,000 people, reflective of her tireless efforts as a peaceful protestor to bring the perils of climate change and the need for urgent action to the attention of more people. I am honoured that Zoe is speaking on our panel for the next PTRC Fireside Chat I am chairing on 16 November which addresses climate action. When I posted on Monday about this event and went to tag Zoe, I couldn't find her. She had vanished from LinkedIn. How could this be? I have since been in touch with Zoe and learnt the following. When she tried to use LinkedIn on Sunday, she couldn’t get access and got a page saying “Your account has been temporarily restricted as a precaution" and asking for her to verify who she was by uploading ID. She was cautious of this in case of some sort of scam so did a bit of research before reluctantly uploading an image of her passport, hoping this would unlock her account. But actually all that happened was that she received an email from LinkedIn Customer Support saying the following: "We've deemed the activity in your account in violation of the LinkedIn User Agreement and Professional Community Policies. Your appeal has been denied and your account has been restricted permanently." Zoe is currently in a DM conversation with LinkedIn via Twitter. She has asked if others might be happy to post about this "as I have no voice or presence on there now". I follow(ed) Zoe - I find/found her posts informative, thought provoking and vitally important in relation to climate literacy and news about climate change developments and climate action efforts. I do not recall anything in her many posts and shares that I would have classed as problematic and warranting being permanently silenced. I find this development extremely alarming, raising questions about freedom of speech in a fragile era for humanity when populism and suppression seem to have become real threats. If you support Zoe can you please share this to signal your concern that she has gone missing. If you have any direct experience of account suspension and how to constructively resolve any misunderstandings in relation to this important professional platform please share this in comments below. If you are uncomfortable sharing anything publicly, please direct message me and I will pass information on to Zoe. #BringZoeBack

Climate change on its current trajectory is incompatible with the universal realization of human rights. People taking peaceful action to limit global warming are #HRDs. States should listen to them. https://lnkd.in/ePwKpPp8

Greta Thunberg has been arrested after joining hundreds of protesters who gathered at a five-star hotel in London this morning (Tuesday 17th October) to denounce a meeting branded “the Oscars of oil”. Footage showed the Swedish climate activist being bundled into the back of a van by police after taking part in protests blocking the entrances of the InterContinental on Park Lane, the venue for the Energy Intelligence Forum (EIF), which brings together fossil fuel executives and government ministers. Critics have called the event the “oily money conference”, in a nod to its previous name, the Oil & Money conference. Addressing journalists before joining the protest, Thunberg said: “Behind these closed doors at the oil and money conference, spineless politicians are making deals and compromises with lobbyists from destructive industries, the fossil fuel industry. +++ It should be clear to all that Governments have absolutely no intention of kicking the oil habit. We have had so many chances these past 50 years to move towards more renewable and sustainable energy sources. We have had so many chances to reduce our transport use. We have had so many chances to lower the environmental impact of our diets. In the end, it should be clear to all that we are being gaslighted by the majority of Governments. They have no intention of giving up business as usual. We see this better than most in the UK with new coal mines, new oil and gas fields, airport expansion. +++ It should not be Greta Thunberg being bundled into the back of a van by police... #climatecrisis #renewables #polycrisis #gretathunberg https://lnkd.in/eedS6wRa