#climatefailure — Public Fediverse posts

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Little bribes?🤨

"Carney's budget needs 2 more votes. Here's the local funding that could get it passed
Opposition MPs will have to decide if the sweeteners merit letting the budget through"

#Cdnpoli #Canada #ClimateFailure

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-budget-carrots-votes-9.6968331

🚨 BREAKING: The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport @bmdv gets a ticket for sluggish climate action! Here's what happened and why 👇#HowMuchMore #COP28 @ScientistRebellion

Six Scientists have pasted posters on the @bmdv building with declarations by past governments to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a promise constantly and neglectfully postponed. #HowMuchMore broken promises will we witness? All of them have been arrested by the police. Fighting against climate failure is criminalised, whilst continued profiteering of the #FossilMadness is subsidised. 🤯

Additionally, 100 Scientists 🥼 marched and protested 📣 against #ClimateFailure. Again and again the government failed at delivering results and excelled at delaying the phase out of fossil fuel subsidies.

The coalition contract states: "We want to gain additional budgetary leeway by reducing superfluous, ineffective and environmentally and climate-damaging subsidies and expenditure in the budget." – BUT:

Aviation is shamefully subsidised by tax-free kerosene and VAT-free international flights with 12.4 billion euros a year. 🤯

Highly inefficient and resource-intensive individual transportation 🚗🚗🚗 without fuel-saving speed limitation is promoted over transitioning to a climate-neutral public transportation system 🚎.

Emission reductions in the transportation sector are promised, but targets are missed and the pathways towards the stated goals are clearly inadequate! #UniteAgainstClimateFailure @AufstandLastGen @xrgermany

Since 2009 at the G20 meeting, German governments have repetitively pledged to phase out fossil and environmentally damaging subsidies. Germany still spends 65 billion euros in environmentally harmful subsidies each year!

🌍 #HowMuchMore failure can we take? Today's action is part of SR global campaign: follow for more updates this week, and donate to our campaign if you want to support us! 🙏 https://opencollective.com/scientist-rebellion/contribute/how-much-more-campaign-and-actions-crowdfunding-68461

"... the United Kingdom is turning its back on a global leadership position while the United States and the European Union are using the transition to climate resilience as an opportunity to lead." #Sunak #ClimateFailure #FoolOrScoundrel?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03057-8

Pulling the fire alarm to protest climate inaction—excellent action logic. Could see it spreading:

“We would like to draw particular attention to the #climatefailure of the German government and demand urgent safety measures from it.

“That's why we interrupted Chancellor Scholz's #WHS2022 opening speech several times by the #fire alarm going off in the building.”

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/109179470877361757

Recalls Walter Benjamin: “ #Marx says that #revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train — namely, the human race — to activate the emergency brake.” cf. Michael Löwy’s _Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’” #StillFiguringOutThisApp

Pulling the fire alarm to protest climate inaction—excellent action logic. Could see it spreading:

“We would like to draw particular attention to the #climatefailure of the German government and demand urgent safety measures from it.

“That's why we interrupted Chancellor Scholz's #WHS2022 opening speech several times by the #fire alarm going off in the building.”

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/109179470877361757

Recalls Walter Benjamin: “ #Marx says that #revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train — namely, the human race — to activate the emergency brake.” cf. Michael Löwy’s _Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’” #StillFiguringOutThisApp

Pulling the fire alarm to protest climate inaction—excellent action logic. Could see it spreading:

“We would like to draw particular attention to the #climatefailure of the German government and demand urgent safety measures from it.

“That's why we interrupted Chancellor Scholz's #WHS2022 opening speech several times by the #fire alarm going off in the building.”

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/109179470877361757

Recalls Walter Benjamin: “ #Marx says that #revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train — namely, the human race — to activate the emergency brake.” cf. Michael Löwy’s _Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’” #StillFiguringOutThisApp

Pulling the fire alarm to protest climate inaction—excellent action logic. Could see it spreading:

“We would like to draw particular attention to the #climatefailure of the German government and demand urgent safety measures from it.

“That's why we interrupted Chancellor Scholz's #WHS2022 opening speech several times by the #fire alarm going off in the building.”

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/109179470877361757

Recalls Walter Benjamin: “ #Marx says that #revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train — namely, the human race — to activate the emergency brake.” cf. Michael Löwy’s _Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’” #StillFiguringOutThisApp

[Personal feelings disclaimer] The world is very much on fire, but a few trends in the last few months fill me with mental strength and courage. These include:
- Increasingly frequent conversations with colleagues about #degrowth that don't involve explaining *why* degrowth is good
- Increasing number of people recognizing #federated and #horizontal organizing can be great #SocialEcology
- Increasing number of scientists willing to risk arrest to call out #ClimateFailure. #activism

If you've been following our #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign, please consider making a one time donation to help us cover legal costs and continue to unite academia and demand governments put an end to #ClimateFailure! (19/end )
https://opencollective.com/scientist-rebellion/donate

+++UPDATE+++

All scientists protesting this morning in Munich have been taken to the police station.

To help us with legal costs and the fight against #ClimateFailure, please consider donating at https://opencollective.com/scientist-rebellion/donate

If you've been following our #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign, please consider making a one time donation to help us cover legal costs and continue to unite academia and demand governments put an end to #ClimateFailure! (10/10)

https://opencollective.com/scientist-rebellion/donate

We demand the German government publicly admit climate failure and that we will not limit warming to 1.5ºC - people's lives are at risk, and the government must admit #ClimateFailure. (3/10)

If you've been following our #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign, please consider making a one time donation to help us cover legal costs and continue to unite academia and demand governments put an end to #ClimateFailure! (10/10)
https://t.co/ifrE8yVMtr https://t.co/X9Q3xwZTym

We demand the German government publicly admit climate failure and that we will not limit warming to 1.5ºC - people's lives are at risk, and the government must admit #ClimateFailure. (3/10) https://t.co/eSTEMkjFff

+++UPDATE+++

After overnight custody, the scientists arrested yesterday have been freed!

However, #UniteAgainstClimateFailure demands have not been met. Until Governments listen to the dire warnings of science, Scientists will protest and call for an end to #ClimateFailure https://t.co/m9pUoHnOBQ

Scientist Rebellion demands the German government publicly admit climate failure and that we will not limit warming to 1.5ºC - people's lives are at risk, and the government must admit #ClimateFailure. (3/7)

If you've been following our #UniteAgainstClimateFailure campaign in Germany and around the world, please consider making a one time donation to help us continue to unite academia and demand governments put an end to #ClimateFailure!
https://t.co/ifrE8zdVHz https://t.co/9POOk2UMtJ

At the same time as our actions in Germany today, in front of the German Embassy in Kinshasa DRC, Scientist Rebellion demanded that the German government admit #ClimateFailure and the cancelation of the debt owed by the Global South!
#UniteAgainstClimateFailure https://t.co/3xhIMdtXmH

Scientist Rebellion demands the German government publicly accepts climate failure and that we will not limit warming to 1.5ºC -  German people's lives are at risk, and the government must admit #ClimateFailure .

Scientist Rebellion demands the German government publicly accepts climate failure and that we will not limit warming to 1.5ºC -  German people's lives are at risk, and the government must #LevelWithUs. (alt: must admit #ClimateFailure)

The insufficient climate protection measures of the transport sector in Germany contribute significantly to the partial failure of the #ParisAgreement on a national level.

There is a real possibility of global catastrophe. #ClimateFailure

We would like to draw particular attention to the #climatefailure of the German government and demand urgent safety measures from it.

That's why we interrupted Chancellor Scholz's #WHS2022 opening speech several times by the #fire alarm going off in the building.