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5⃣CLIMATE DISASTER:
This is a disaster for the climate - as everyone from the International Energy Agency to the UN, to the IPCC, and the CCC has told us, with global warming spiralling to a catastrophic 3C if every country follows this approach.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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"At a time when the #climatecrisis is intensifying, it is concerning to see the UK expand oil and gas drilling in the North Sea.
The UK should be focused on investing in renewable energy not doubling-down on fossil fuels."
- Gwen Hines, @SaveCEO_UK
savethechildren.org.uk/news/…
Ellen Pirie retweeted
Today @grantshapps said no to science, no to climate action, no to sanity
He has given in to a political wing of luddite billionaire pricks who value profits over a liveable planet
These actions will significantly worsen human & planetary health
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis
Today we are saying no to @JustStop_Oil and their political wing the Labour Party
We will power ahead with new oil and gas because it’s in the best interests of the British people, of our economy and of our national security
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.@GoodwinMJ falls in to the trap of thinking ordinary people should pay for the transition to net zero. Wrong. The cost should, will fall on oil companies who knowingly kept drilling despite their own evidence they were doing would cause the #ClimateCrisis
And herein lies the tension that will now shape politics for decades ...
Introduce climate policies even if brings costs for ordinary ppl = 27%
Introduce climate policies only if NO costs for ordinary ppl = 55%
Don't Introduce them at all = 5%
Middle-class break 32/50
Working class break 20/57
Net Zero is always popular until you spell out the consequences ...
Data YouGov
Ellen Pirie retweeted
I've said it before and I'll inevitably be forced to say it again. Every Tory #PrimeMinister is the worst ever - until the next one comes along. Johnson was a lying cheat, but Sunak doesn't care if the planet burns. #GlobalBoiling #ToryGaslighting
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Translation: CONservatives ARE in hoc to their fossil-fuel donors 💰and their network of think thanks, and have chosen extinction #ClimateAction 🌏 All for greed.
#ClimateEmergency
#GlobalBoiling
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Honestly what is the point in anything #GlobalBoiling #ClimateEmergency Rishi Sunak defends granting new North Sea oil and gas licences bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-6…
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@ChrisGPackham great 👍 interview on @SkyNews today. Clear and logical facts with regards to the ridiculous & stupid announcement by @RishiSunak regarding #oilandgas to keep his #BigOil paymasters happy. Well done that man. @carolvorders @bobbyllew #GlobalBoiling
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Wildlife expert @ChrisGPackham says the PMs assertion that we are "on track" to meet our net zero target by 2050 is "a lie".
"We are not in line to meet any of these targets," he adds.
trib.al/3PyZINZ
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Ellen Pirie retweeted
As proven during the recent local elections, tactical voting WORKS very effectively, so here's a select few Conservative MPs where if everyone locally votes tactically the Tory will be OUT of Westminster!
#TakeOutATory #GTTO
Who would be daft enough to believe a Tory promise about anything? @lisanandy
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Absolutely. When I made a series called Who Made Britain Fat for Channel 4 we were promised controls on junk food advertising by 2022.. still waiting
GPs to offer NHS patients Wegovy weight-loss jab. I feel it would be better if the govt looked at the actual cause of the obesity problem Why not start with banning the advertising of junk food to children @RishiSunak @HenryDimbleby bbc.co.uk/news/health-658214…
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🧵Here's 6 reasons why no new oil & gas in the North Sea is a good thing:
1. New oil & gas fields won't do anything to lower our energy bills.
The government admits this - the companies with licences own the oil & gas, not us. They either export it or sell it to us at profit.
Ellen Pirie retweeted
Y'all forgot the biggest threat of all--the #climatecrisis
Artificial intelligence leaders warn the A.I. technology poses the "risk of extinction," like pandemics and nuclear war. @trevorlault has more. gma.abc/3WISP0Z
Ellen Pirie retweeted
How can you determine whether something is “unambiguously irrelevant” if you aren’t actually in possession of it?
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🚨The UK government is going all-out for a dangerous axing of our environmental protections at a scale never seen before.
Join me and sign the @friends_earth petition to say no to deregulation before it's too late🚨 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/…
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Interesting !
How a Parliament could look like under a #ProportionalRepresentation voting system when all votes count & #SeatsMatchVotes
#GetPRDone 👇🏽
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How about a corresponding #DemocraticMission based on #ProportionalRepresentation so that everyone's vote is valued and Britain's democracy thrives?
Now that really would mean doing things differently!
#GetPRDone
Labour’s economic mission demands that every part of Britain thrives and that we value the contribution of everyone.
It also means doing things differently.
Today I set how Labour will do that, with a new business model for Britain.
labourtogether.uk/report/new…
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A case study on what is wrong with tabloid journalism in Britain: This Daily Mail story reports that a Lib Dem council in Surrey is close to collapse due to massive overspending. Fact: the Lib Dems are only recently in control, all the overspending happened under a Tory council.
