Etienne Stott MBE π
@EtienneStott
London 2012 canoe slalom gold medallist. Taking action to keep our planet & all that live on it aliveππ Member of @XRebellionUK + @Champions4Earth
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15-08-2012 09:55:41
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I am pretty sure that the Science Museum don't want everyone to know that they're in the pocket of the world's biggest coal producer and have allowed them (incredibly perversely) to sponsor an exhibition on climate change (which that company is knowingly accelerating).
Great article. So many narratives around sport are just recycled, dull (& often unhealthy) ideas around winning, domination & suffering, when sport can be about so much more. It's refreshing to know these cultures already exist in pockets. Good story telling Cath Bishop!!
#HappyBirthday to the displacer of communities, destroyer of environments, and profiteer of the #climatecrisis .
Here's to the supervillain that you are! The end of your reign of terror is nigh.
#stopeacop #ENDFOSSILFUELS #KICKTOTALOUT !
Itβs not just Thames: the whole of the English water industry is environmentally insolvent taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/03/2β¦ There is much fuss about Thames Water right now. but none of the UK's water companies have a hope of meeting their obligations to supply clean water, rivers andβ¦
This story really got meπ’
Simply #CeasefireNOW
BBC News - Israel-Gaza war: The 12-year-old Gazan girl who lost her whole family overnight
bbc.co.uk/news/world-midβ¦
Great blog from TheGreenRunners about #Sportwash .
thegreenrunners.com/sportswashing-β¦
It's a betrayal of sporting values for high carbon sponsors to use sport to polish their image.
Sport stands for youth, progress and life.
Fossil fuels stand against these.
These three ideas helped me perform at a gold medal level at #London2012 and they are useful to me every day as I face challenges beyond the realms of sport.
See what you thinkπ€
βοΈπ¨ 'Dirty Snow' - our new report with New Weather Sverige calculates the climate impacts of high-carbon sponsors in winter sports. β·οΈ
These polluting companies are melting the snow on which these sports depend. Here's what we found π§π§΅
Full report: badverts.org/latest/polluteβ¦
Important and powerful piece about the westβs complicity with atrocities in Gaza and our βmoral collapseβ in the face of unimaginable horror. βWe find ourselves in an unprecedented situation. Never before have so many witnessed an industrial-scale slaughter in real time.ββ¦