#Elsevier, the publisher of The Lancet @Cell and many more journals, continues to subsidise climate breakdown through data services, exhibition hosting and political lobbying supporting coal, oil, and gas exploration and extraction. A thread 1/n 🧵

Today @scientistsX were in front of Elsevier’s offices (Health & Science publisher) in solidarity with Union of Concerned Scientists & Scientists for Global Responsibility‘s petition tinyurl.com/4n6h7jkn We were reminded by one of their top executives of a few points for consideration. See 🧵below

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Often, I have been asked why people do not collect and make money from the plastic in the river, I tell them it is a hard & expensive task to do . Yesterday, I challenged myself- got into the water for one hour to see how much of the recyclable plastic waste I’d be able to gather

MEGA new report from WWF UK finds that adopting healthy, sustainable diets could deliver a 36% reduction in GHGs and a 20% reduction in biodiversity loss compared to the average UK diet today - while also supporting a transition to agroecology and regenerative farming. 🥳

Frederika Mourot GNS Science Te Pū Ao & Alex Macmillan University of Otago presented their research on the impact of climate change on groundwater and health to MPs at the Speaker’s Science Forum last night. 🚰🌏 ⚕️ Thanks to host @bennett4np & partners @science_nz, @UniversitiesNZ & Rob Whitney

End-stage capitalism is upon the neo-liberal academy

Read it and weep, fossil fuels. A dose of much-needed good news about the rise of cheap solar. There is so much to take hopeful action about. Perhaps things feel the darkest when we're closest to positive tipping points? theconversationuk.createsend1.com/t/r-e-ttjiuyut…

As floods & fires rise, oceans boil & ice melts, and "safe" temperatures are breached, something momentous just happened in the heart of the EU. No one has heard about it: journalists were present, but their editors refused to publish 🤯. 🧵, please RT. #BeyondGrowth2023 1/

Today marks 17 years since the Lumpur Lapindo mud volcano was caused by gas drilling. It has been erupting continuously ever since. The world's worst mud volcano disaster permanently displaced 40000 people, buried 7 km2 of a city and is a massive greenhouse gas emitter. Thread.

On this day in 1959 the Auckland Harbour Bridge was opened without the proposed walking and cycling lanes included in one of the original designs. It’s been the key date for many demonstrations calling for walking and cycling access.

A complete shutdown of cold water ocean upwelling off the coast of Peru is the sign of a strong impending El Niño... It was along this coast that the phrase was first coined by colonial Spanish fishermen. This is a huge anomaly.

American cars are uniquely big, expensive, and inefficient. Here's the best-selling car in America last year (right) vs. the best-seller in Europe (left). So why are American cars so big? 🧵

Couldn’t be more different. It costs around $200,000NZD+ to purchase an average car in Singapore when you include the taxes and the Certificate of Entitlement. That’s even before the charges if it’s a petrol engine. Car ownership is 11% in Singapore vs 88% in NZ.

“The idea of parliament ‘defining the Treaty’, an agreement made between the Crown and the rangatira of the hapū in 1840, is a breach of Te Tiriti itself.” — Catherine Delahunty Catherine Delahunty e-tangata.co.nz/reflections/th…

#Calltoaction for Pākehā / Tauiwi from Tāmaki Treaty Workers - hope to see you there.

NZ, fresh from the ludicrous decision to overturn anti-smoking legislation, our new government is causing us further international embarrassment. We are #FossilOfTheDay!

"NZ made a brief appearance in yesterday’s fossil fuel debate. It won the first Fossil of the Day award of this COP for the National-led govt’s promise to revoke the previous govt’s ban on offshore oil exploration beyond Taranaki’s coastal waters." 😬🇳🇿 newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/04/nz-…