Award winning writer. βStraight Jacket' ('An essential read for every gay person on the planetβ Elton John). Former editor-in-chief of
@attitudemag
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The public donβt understand that the olive oil price is skyrocketing because crops in Europe have been devastated by extreme drought because of climate change, and that itβs going to get much worse - or that David Attenborough warns the collapse of the food system is on the
Most people I know in the media view this as hysteria. They simply will not face just how serious it is - which means itβs not reported with the adequate conviction or urgency, as if to do so would be a sign of weakness. The media is failing so spectacularly.
#ClimateCrisis
Itβs actually true that the popular media has interviewed people in βThe Queueβ more than they ever have given air time to climate scientists. Literally. Not an exaggeration. Think about that.
What the Republicans, Tories, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, Fox News, Murdoch, Putin, oil nations, the establishment, the banks, the super rich, the elite, do not want you to understand:
#JustStopOil
#ClimateEmergency
WE ARE NOT WINNING. Former Vice President of the USA says the people who run our world and economy are driving us towards global cataclysm. Where are our cultural and political leaders? They need to raise the alarm and demand action NOW
#ClimateEmergency
People do not understand that we are about to lose far more than any painting. Listen to the words of Sir David Attenborough. We are on course for the collapse of the liveable world. It is a nightmare that people canβt see this after 35 years of constant warnings
#VanGogh
This is what it feels like to be alive as we approach the end of the world as we know it. There is time to avoid the worst but it means every single one of us becoming activists. Leave it to other people and we are toast. Listen to David Attenborough who warned us time and again
Actual SCIENTISTS having water cannons turned on them as they demand we face the reality of climate change that threatens us all. What a state we are in.
Police water cannons are yet again turned on the scientists. Today an estimated 10,000 peaceful protestors in the Hague, are demonstrating against Dutch government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, totalling at least 37.5 billion euros a year.
Greenock, Scotland. Remember none of this is a major problem according to our politicians. Weβll all pretend itβs fine despite the fact itβs just the beginning - and governments plan to make it worse for another 30 years
Ah, itβs begun. The people who for years denied reality and criticised scientists and activists, costing us vital decades, have begun to understand the anger they will soon face for putting us all in unimaginable danger.
NYC right now. Rainfall intensity is increasing as the planet heats as scientists have warned. We are heading for irreversible breakdown as weβve been warned about for decades
Frankfurt. Remember when David Attenborough said the collapse
of civilisation was on the horizon? There is only so many times the insurance industry can cope
with these kind of eventsβ¦
You watched "The Hunger Games" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Star Wars" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "The Matrix" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "Divergent" and sided with the resistance.
You watched "V for Vendetta" and sided with
Strange times. Models showing 40C UK temperature for the first time ever. Most MPs uninterested in a climate change briefing from the UK Chief Scientist. On This Morning, Alison Hammond is on an indoor ski slope in Dubai. Our kids futures are disappearing. Strange times.
Still cannot get my head round the fact humanity is on the verge of destabilising the planet and there are hundreds of media punters telling us not to worry about it. It's proper end of days stuff if a society cannot accept scientific facts that have been understood for decades
Sometimes I get these moments where I just want to cry. Most people are oblivious to what is happening. Itβs a threat to their lives and mine. My safety too. Its personal as much as anything else. Itβs like being a passenger in a car driven by a drunk driver - and no one cares.
Porto, Portugal. The worlds climate is destabilising. Scientists are screaming at us that it threatens our ability to grow enough food and we may permanently collapse human civilisation. Please RT, educate your friends and family and demand action
when the climate collapse really starts killing huge numbers of people in the west, the media are going to say the scientists didnt make it clear. mark my words
NASA scientist
@climatehuman
βWE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO WARN YOU GUYS FOR SO MANY YEARS - WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS A FUCKING CATASTROPHE - AND WE ARE BEING IGNOREDβ
I wonβt shut up about this despite what people may think of me, because the media is wrong: This IS an emergency. We arenβt being hysterical. As David Attenborough says, we are heading towards the collapse of civilisation. This is Greece, for fucks sake:
Stop and think for a moment about this statement. Itβs true. From here to that destination is unimaginable violence, in our lifetimes, as our food systems are shaken. Why arenβt there millions of people protesting on the streets?
The media gets climate change wrong every day. The BBC just said Sunak not going to Cop27 is βdisappointing for climate activistsβ. Itβs like saying the Titanic hitting the iceberg was disappointing for boat enthusiasts
The worlds biggest plastic polluter has been allowed to sponsor the latest climate change conference. The whole system is totally corrupt. And people wonder why so many of us are so angry
Germany. What happens when itβs a family with 3 year old kids who get caught in this? Or an OAP? The public have no clue of of what is about to happen to us. Society has failed on a scale that is unfathomable
For those angry at the VanGogh
@JustStop_Oil
action, hereβs real scientists and doctors protesting outside Shells offices. It will get no media coverage at all. This is how itβs almost always been for the last 35 years since NASA warned we were dangerously heating the planet
Watching a huge macho farmer on Sky News holding back tears as he talks of the farming industry collapsing. The UK may not be able to feed itself for much longer. Honestly, Iβm way past wanting an election. I want trials.
Iβm staggered by the lack of reaction to the IPCC report. Thereβs almost no significant action. I donβt think we can get it until the media screams the full truth to the public & I see almost no one in the media who understands that this is true: New tactics needed urgently.
completely baffled why everyone in the media and every celebrity is not screaming for emergency action. They know this is going to likely kill us, right? Do they think David Attenborough is joking?
#ClimateAction
So many of my friends on Facebook have kids. I never see them posting about the planetary crisis. It's all trips and holidays on planes & family events. None of them seem to be aware of what is speeding towards their kids. Society is in a dysfunctional relationship with the truth
This is Kelowna, Canada. What do you tell your kids in this situation? Itβs not just a rhetorical question. Itβs something all parents are going to have to tell their kids as the fires, floods and famine reach their doors.
#ClimateEmergency
The media is covering climate more but they are still nervous of telling the full truth: we are gambling with our entire civilisation, as David Attenborough warns here. This is a full blown global emergency and we have to declare it and act like it
Dear parents not involved with activism in any way: why are you sitting doing nothing knowing your kids are unlikely to have safe futures? Iβd genuinely like to understand
Climate change is the biggest threat weβve faced in thousands of years, David Attenborough says, but outside of environmental specialists, thereβs not one mainstream media figure speaking out on the issue. The result is the public have no real clue about whatβs to happen to us
If the Guardian is the only paper to front page this then I canβt see how we can make it. People with influence need to urgently call out the Mail and The Sun and their suppression of the climate change reality - or the public will never demand whatβs necessary. This situation is
Youβre expected to continue through a pandemic, possibly long covid, you canβt get a mortgage or rent a flat, the price of food is through the roof, you canβt get a doctors appointment and the actual weathers broken, but itβs your fault if youβre not kicking your heels up on the
The desperation and bravery of these young people makes me weep. Where are the adults? Why canβt you show a fraction of this bravery? Why are you silently letting this happen, journalists and people with influence?
#GlobalBoiling
I just mustered up every ounce of courage to interrupt White House Press Secretary
@K_JeanPierre
and urge the Biden Administration to stop approving new coal, oil, and gas projects.
The climate crisis is here now.
@POTUS
, listen to Gen-Z, scientists, and frontline communities
BREAKING: The world is shifting towards a superheated climate not seen in the past 1m years, prior to human existence, because βwe are damned foolsβ according to James Hansen, the US scientist who alerted the world to the greenhouse effect in the 1980s.
βWEβVE BEEN TRYING TO WARN YOU FOR DECADES THAT WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS A FUCKING CATASTROPHE - AND SCIENTISTS ARE BEING IGNOREDβ Nasa scientist
@ClimateHuman
in tears as he risks arrest protesting fossil fuel financing
@Chase
bank
#ClimateCrisis
#DontLookUp
#protest
A growing number of scientists are willing to risk arrest in a desperate bid to get leaders to act on the climate crisis. Listen to climate scientist Peter Kalmus
@ClimateHuman
choke up as he and others at
@ScientistRebel1
block an entrance to
@Chase
in LA today.π· via organizers
OMG this made me cry. These climate activists disrupted a concert - and the conductor told the audience to be quiet and listen to what they had to say or he would leave the stage. We really are in danger. Why arenβt more famous people speaking out??
When youβre out and one of these hail stones that fell in Italy today hits you or your child on the head then youβll wish youβd paid attention and realized that recycling just isnβt enough. No one can say they werenβt warned:
#JustStopOil
Everyone needs to become a climate activist because what is happening in Maui, whatβs just happened in Rhodes, Norway, Sicily, China etc, is just the beginning. This graph is by the university of Reading. Itβs real. We really are in an unimaginable, unprecedented emergency π¨
This situation is intolerable; where those of us listening to the science are struggling to sleep, struggling with our mental health, whilst most people are blissfully in denial because 99% of the media doesnβt understand the full implications of what is happening.
#DontLookUp
If people understood what happens when carbon dioxide levels go up - whether its natural or from burning fossil fuels - everyone would be on the streets. When the UN warns we are committing collective suicide, itβs not an exaggeration
Itβs hellish. I have 5% of my timeline full of intelligent people explaining why most of us might all be dead within a decade, 20% is scientists saying we can avert the worst if we act, which weβre not, and 75% completely oblivious that any of its happening at all.
#climate
#2023
When the penny drops for you and you wonder how the hell we got here, in large part itβs because arrogant news journalists and radio hosts believed they knew better than David Attenborough and the worlds leading scientists, and didnβt believe this could possibly be true:
These are both scientists. π¨Over the next year the world is going to go into unprecedented shock. When I say the media have failed us itβs because these developments should be headline news. The public have no idea whatβs about to happen. The media must be held to account.
Thereβs too much superficial worshipping of David Attenborough and not enough focus on what he is saying. Heβs warning our lives are in danger! The future is not what most people think it is. We all have to peacefully rise up and protest and demand systemic global action
So let me get this right: Europeβs on fire, Miami ocean temperatureβs are at 100F, a new study says a vital part of our planet might stall and collapse the world in 18 months, and the biggest story is Nigel Farageβs banking affairs?
Sooner or later weβre going to have to face the reality that conservatism and capitalism is killing us. Itβs not a debate. Itβs a fact. Itβs literally happening right now in front of our eyes. If you canβt see it you either donβt understand it, or you are intentionally lying to
This is horrifying. This poor woman is in distress because she wants a future. Remember: thousands of scientists warn governments are pushing us towards the collapse of our food and water supply and of civilisation itself. Listen to David Attenborough
Yes! This is what we need. Celebrities getting off their arses and fighting for us all. There is strength in numbers!
#ClimateCrisis
Thank you Olivia Coleman! Thank you Richard Curtis!
#ObliviaCoalmine
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@MMMoneyMatter
Consider the panic of scientists over this weekend about various shocking stats. I donβt think Iβve seen one major U.K. news media outlet cover it. Even Taiwan TV has, but not
@bbcnews
@skynews
@itvnews
Politicians are still prioritising attacking protesters. Incredible.
The public are sick of Just Stop Oilβs planned programme of deliberate disruptions to daily lives. Iβve just signed an SI to change the law, giving Police power to stop protests causing more than a βminor hindranceβ to a journey. This comes into effect at midnight tonight.
Italian friend just sent me these - barrow full of dead birds hit by tennis ball size hail. This what you get when oil companies boil a planet. Itβs barely started.
You know this is just the beginning, donβt you? Talked to some famous people last night who didnβt understand that almost all climate scientists agree, and what eventually comes is crop failure which leads to civil unrest and widespread violence. Watch Breaking Boundaries asap
For 15 years iβve been talking to other journalists and trying to pitch the story of how Exxon Mobil & others have covered up the climate crisis, said it was the biggest corporate crime in history. None were interested. Most still arenβt. Now:
#Bigoilvtheworld
.
@BBCnews
just did a devastating report on the record Greek wildfires. Not one mention of climate change. The worlds leading scientists says the record wildfires around the world are exactly what climate change causes. To omit this is reckless insanity. It endangers us all.
Regular reminder that David Attenborough isnβt just a nice old national treasure, he wants us to hear and act upon his urgent warnings THAT WE ARE FACING THE INCREASING POSSIBILITY OF MASS DEATH & COLLAPSE IN THE LIFETIME OF KIDS ALIVE TODAY. Sorry, but itβs true.
#WildIsles
Grateful that Al Gore continues to tell the truth. Contempt for all those people in positions of power - politicians, media, celebrities - who are refusing to fully sound the alarm
#ClimateEmergency
We are in a planetary emergency.
It is not an exaggeration. There is no one left to warn us. Everyone should be using whatever platform they have to raise the alarm.
#heatwave
Please understand how hugely fucking serious our predicament is. Our deranged leaders are sitting back as fossil fuel use and land management for meat etc, is destabilising the conditions that make this planet habitable for us. π¨
βThis period may be a rare moment for us to reflect on who we are and who we want to beβ. The media is in total denial of what is happening to this planet and what is about to happen to us all
Sorry to go on. I'm just really really frightened. There is almost no reporting in the mainstream media of the insane conditions that are occurring across the planet. Journalists just don't seem to think it's important...
This is climate change. The worst heatwave in China in 60 years is ongoing.
The most populated region of the most populated nation on the planet is one of the hottest places on the planet.
Industries shut down. Power cut to millions. Drinking water shortage. Drought.
Just think: journalists like
@carolecadwalla
have been telling us Russian disinformation was influencing global democracy for years,
@GeorgeMonbiot
warning the planet was collapsing, both were right. Most major journalists were focused on gender neutral toys and Harry and Meghan
I often wonder what parents will tell their kids as they become teens and adults. The honest answer is mostly that they pretended it wasnβt happening because doing something would have meant time, effort and activism. There again, most younger people are mostly ignoring it too
Millions of fish dead as parts of Australia experience record temperatures. Im not suprised lots of people canβt accept climate change. Itβs worse than your worst nightmare. Itβs too horrific to truly comprehend