A thread
Twitter is full of comments such as “What will it take for people to take to the streets?” or “Just wait until the Brexit food shortages, then people will protest”.
The government relies on this. #3Point5Percent

Creeping normalisation of one appalling tragedy after another is a real thing. We shout and rage on here then, inevitably, another gross violation or calamity occurs and it starts again.
The government relies on this. #resist #revolt

With the #AlevelResults fiasco they’ve messed up and ruined too many lives too quickly. This is too big a disaster to go away. Result; instant street protest and huge, sustained anger. No need to wait for worse to come: it will arrive soon enough. #protest

If you read much of what I tweet you’ll know that, despite the noise from all the rest of the crises we face, the things that fill my life are the #ClimateEmergency #Ecocide and #ClimateJustice
These fill me with equal parts terror deep, sustained rage & hope for a better world.

So why am I not out protesting and campaigning every day. What could I possibly be waiting for? (I did go to the People’s Vote March and an XR protest but it’s not exactly “world-beating” campaigning)

In the last 12 months:
The Amazon burned. It’s burning again but Jair Bolsonaro closed the agency that told the world about it so now we don’t see it - this year it’s about 20% more destructive.

Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas with sustained winds of 185 mph. It was the strongest hurricane ever recorded to hit the islands.

Australia caught fire and burned for months. 34 people and nearly 3 billion animals died or were forcibly displaced by the fires.
photo: NASA

Severe flooding affected the UK throughout last winter. At least 11 people died.

More recently, flooding in Yemen washed away homes and other buildings that had stood for 1000 years.

Bangladesh is still largely underwater although you wouldn’t know it from the news coverage and in India, more catastrophic flooding has hit Jaipur.

A couple of weeks ago, the northern Hemisphere lost its last intact ice shelf when more than 40% of it broke away in a couple of days and glaciers are collapsing in the Alps.

I could go on about the Arctic heatwaves and crop failures in Russia etc. but I think I’ve made my point. Enough is enough.

My protest, my way starts on Thursday. I’ll let you know how it goes. #ClimateJustice

ps
Five minutes after I posted the thread this popped up. The #ClimateEmergency isn’t going away. https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/1294783752594481153?s=21 https://twitter.com/ericholthaus/status/1294783752594481153