Swedish authorities are threatening Greta Thunberg with a prison sentence — while the real criminals, the owners of the fossil fuel companies and the multinational corporations, are making 💵 millions of dollars 💵 every day by destroying the ecosphere that Greta Thunberg and others are trying to protect.
We cannot live sustainably within today’s economic system. Yet that is what we are constantly being told we can do.
We can buy sustainable cars, travel on sustainable motorways powered by sustainable petroleum. We can eat sustainable meat, and drink sustainable soft drinks out of sustainable plastic bottles. We can buy sustainable fast fashion and fly on sustainable airplanes using sustainable fuels. And, of course, we are going to meet our short- and long-term sustainable climate targets, too, without making the slightest effort.
“How?” you might ask. How can that be possible when we don’t yet have any technical solutions that can fix this crisis alone, and the option of stopping doing things is unacceptable from our current economic standpoint? What are we going to do?
Well, the answer is the same as always: we will cheat. We will use all the loopholes and all the creative accounting that we have conjured up in our climate frameworks since the very first conference of the parties, the 1995 COP1 in Berlin.
We will outsource our emissions along with our factories, we will use baseline manipulation and start counting our emissions reductions when it suits us best. We will burn trees, forests, and biomass, as those have been excluded from the official statistics. We will lock decades of emissions into fossil gas infrastructure and call it 'green' natural gas. And then we will offset the rest with vague afforestation projects – trees that might be lost to disease or fire – while we simultaneously cut down the last of our old-growth forests at a much higher speed.
Funny how since #GretaThunberg started talking about how the #ClimateCrsis is linked to the ills of #capitalism, and actually engaged in activism advocating for it's undoing, suddenly she's nowhere to be seen on TV, Davos, the UN etc etc.
There is not one sentence in this article that I disagree with. Once again, Thunberg shows us how it's done.
"The horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot in any way legitimise Israel’s ongoing war crimes. Genocide is not self-defence, nor is it in any way a proportionate response"
#GretaThunberg teilt und empfiehlt Accounts, die Hamas-Terror relativierten und sogar feierten. Jetzt setzte sie sich in Amsterdam dafür ein, dass eine Person auf einer Demo auf ihrer Bühne sprechen durfte, die #Hamas Massenmorde glorifiziert. Ein Mann entriss ihr das Mikrofon und sagte: "Ich bin wegen Klimaschutz hier, und nicht wegen ihrer politischen Ansichten!" Als jemand, der sich selbst zur Klimabewegung zählte und Greta Thunberg stets vor rechten Fake News verteidigt hat, muss ich heute sagen: Die #Klimabewegung sollte sich deutlich von ihr trennen. Ein Kommentar. https://www.volksverpetzer.de/aktuelles/naechster-greta-skandal-klimabewegung-reissleine/?utm_source=mstdn
Polémique assez ridicule: Les élus et cadres Renaissance du Sud Ouest reprennent une fake news de l'extrême-droite affirmant que Greta Thunberg serait venue manifester contre l'A69 en avion. C'est faux, l'activiste écolo s'est déplacée en train, comme à son habitude. Les macronistes empruntent l'autoroute du mensonge...
#GretaThunberg travelled to the UK today to protest against the exploitation of the #Rosebank#oil field, off the coast of #Scotland.
Rosebank is almost 3 times the size of #Cambo - the #oilfield that people coming together have successfully stopped in 2021.
Let's not sugar coat it: This COP was not a historic achievement. This COP was a historic failure.
That doesn't mean that climate summits are a lost cause. But we desperately need climate summits that are not beholden to fossil fuel lobbyists. #COP28
A London judge acquits climate activist Greta Thunberg of refusing to leave oil industry conference.
A judge in London has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to an oil and gas industry conference last year. #GretaThunberg#ClimateChange
Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) with an artful bit of understatement...
"Leaving capitalist consumerism and market economics as the dominant stewards of the only known civilization in the universe will most likely seem, in retrospect, to have been a terrible idea."
"Greta Thunberg and four co-defendants have been found not guilty of breaking the law when they refused to follow police instructions to move on during a #ClimateProtest.
"District Judge John Law threw out a public order charge due to 'no evidence' of any offence being committed adding police attempted to impose 'unlawful' conditions.
"The 21-year-old was arrested at a #ClimateCrisis demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair on 17 October.
"The judge said that the conditions imposed on protesters were 'so unclear that it is unlawful'.
"He added that it meant that 'anyone failing to comply were actually committing no offence'."
In 2018, a young Swedish girl skipped classes to protest climate inaction in front of the country’s parliament, sparking a world-wide wave of climate protests, galvanizing young people to champion the issue, and highlighting the impotence of politicians (‘blah, blah, blah’) in the face of this existential crisis.