34 years ago today, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated in a French-backed coup. He aspired to an egalitarian, feminist society, and an economy built on self-sufficiency, ecological regeneration, and independence from Western powers.

If your economy requires people to produce and consume things they don't need or even want, and to do more of it each year than the year before, just in order to keep the whole edifice from collapsing, then you need a different economy.

Join the urgent call for a new #NurembergTribunal to investigate #Putin and his cronies for the international crime of #aggression. #StandWithUkraine Sign & RT: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/pr…

BREAKING: simultaneous freakish heat in the Arctic and Antarctic described as 'impossible' and 'unthinkable' by scientists as abrupt climate change accelerates wildly 🧵

Tell the UK government it must NOT betray animals suffering for fur and foie gras! #DontBetrayAnimals - Sign the Petition! chng.it/HJVCsvPf via Change.org UK

Nationalise Bulb 💡 (instead of the taxpayer paying Octopus £1 billion to buy it) Now is the perfect time to set up a state owned energy supplier (like EDF in France which has kept bill rises to only 4%) #NationaliseBulb weownit.org.uk/act-now/nation…

⚠️😡Make no mistake, we are angry. This Government has today launched an attack on nature. We don’t use the words that follow lightly. We are entering uncharted territory. Please read this thread. 1/13

This is hugely significant - Govt has massively under-estimated opposition to its environmental vandalism - and this is just the start👇

I wonder when the rich will realise they can’t survive climate change either #HurricaneIan

This is what greenwashing looks like. Plastics are made of fossil fuels and Coca-Cola is the world's biggest plastic polluter. Now they are sponsoring the world's most important climate event.

We need to do better. There is no planet B. This one is all we've got. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #nature #GreenNewDeal

"Green capitalism" means turning the global South into a giant sacrifice zone so rich folks in the US and Europe can drive electric SUVs.

10 arguments against climate change people sent me today* and 10 Global Weirding episodes I made years ago that debunk them: A fun thread * yes, literally today.

Here’s where I think we now stand, and how we should respond. A thread. 1. There is a global trend towards political impunity. In many nations, politicians are testing the limits of constitutional power, and discovering they can get away with almost anything. 🧵

George Monbiot Handy infographic for those who think the animals ending up on their plates peacefully die of old age.

The UK has a “historic responsibility” to combat climate change Greta Thunberg explains how our "political systems are failing us" and why the most powerful voices in this world are “the ones who are set on destroying it.” newstatesman.com/environment/20…

WE QUIT! Our #NewYearsResolution is to halt our tactics of public disruption. Instead, we call on everyone to help us disrupt our corrupt government. #ChooseYourFuture & join us: 21 April, Parliament.

Happy new year to everyone who didn’t play a leading role in breaking Britain (Location: Chatham)

The world’s 1st octopus farm would cram a MILLION of these smart and sensitive creatures into tiny tanks before painfully freezing them to death – but a massive public outcry can help stop it. Sign and share now! #BanOctopusFarming fb.avaaz.org/campaign/en/ba…

The sound of the air conditioning unit in a digital advertising screen working overtime in the blazing sun in order to display an ExxonMobil/Esso greenwash campaign to associate cycling with buying fossil fuels