Andrew Macdonald | A PhD study of youth climate activism, anxiety & how 16-24 year olds view their futures | Based at @UoYSociology DM me to participate.
Sociology, University of York
Joined November 2020
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I have had my first peer reviewed article published looking at the how child led protest such as the 2019 school strikes have been historically marginalised. Am happy/horrified inn equal measure. Thanks to all at WRoCAH Journal. You can read it here: bit.ly/3yyOfa3
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A vote for this bill is a vote for a liveable future & I urge every single MP to join me in passing this historic piece of legislation. Those who vote against must look to their consciences & ask why they're prepared to squander this historic opportunity
theguardian.com/environment/…
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1🧵@Labour scuppers the Climate and Nature Bill in a move that makes it ever clearer that our current politics is completely incapable of protecting future generations by taking appropriate and adequate action on the climate health emergency - tinyurl.com/29uyd3nd
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Government whips brutally cut down the CAN Bill via ugly parliamentary chicanery, bullying Labour MPs who back the #CANBill and cynically talking it out. Their ‘commitments’ to climate and nature are skin deep. Let’s remember how they let us down. Let’s demand better.
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Just putting my children to bed thinking about how the UK’s Prime Minister has zero regard for their future.
ALT Guardian article: Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits
BBCMewscast?! DOH. #bbcnewscast take a look at this.
I have tweeted about Project 25 and the executive orders several times but the media, at least here in the UK, seem to have forgotten about Project 25. #Newsnight #C4News #r4today #bbcmewscast
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The UK is being battered by yet another record breaking storm made worse by climate breakdown.
Meanwhile, oil giants like @equinor are expanding oil and gas production, pouring more fuel on the fire.
We must Stop Rosebank #StormÉowyn
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...and thank you to @Clifford_Chance's security for this wonderfully choreographed piece of performance art 🤣
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Quick reminder that 355 huge aristocratic estates benefit from a *different* inheritance tax break for 'heritage assets', separate to APR
This rewards them for owning ecologically damaging grouse moors & pheasant shoots
Let's close this loophole:
theguardian.com/money/2024/o…
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WHY IS NO ONE TAKING NOTICE OF AMOC - the worst news for UK industry, society and the state in the last 10,000 years? WHY?
It's fucking physics - when/if AMOC goes, it ABSOLUTELY WILL be catastrophic. Resulting in permanent inability to grow food at scale and thus mass migration and/or starvation.
As any conservative social Darwinist knows - a society only survives if it can respond and adapt effectively to existential threats.
"They show how particularly northern Europe from Britain to Scandinavia would suffer devastating impacts, such as a cooling of winter temperatures by between 10°C and 30°C occurring within a century, leading to a completely different climate within a decade or two… We will continue to ignore this risk at our peril.” Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, Head Of Earth System Analysis at Potsdam Institute and Professor of the Oceans at Potsdam University. realclimate.org/index.php/ar…
“A full #AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster” tells PIK scientist @rahmstorf the @NewYorker. “We really want to prevent this from happening.” Interesting article on the fate of #Greenland & what it means for the rest of the Earth.
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11 October 2024 - @PIK_Climate
“A full #AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster” tells PIK scientist @rahmstorf the @NewYorker. “We really want to prevent this from happening.” Interesting article on the fate of #Greenland & what it means for the rest of the Earth.
newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…
#C4News just did a feature on Claudette Colvin who protested months before Rosa Parks but was forgotten due to being a child. This is something I wrote about in an article which you can read here from page 38 onwards:
journal.wrocah.ac.uk/wp-cont…
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Climate change isn’t a tragedy, it’s a crime.
In the 1970s, Exxon scientists predicted global warming with “shocking accuracy,” but the company went on to spend millions lobbying against climate action.
Now we’re all paying the price.
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BIG MISTAKE! Labour commits £22bn to fund carbon capture & storage projects
This tech is problematic. It will perpetuate oil & gas
Labour should put the £22bn into renewable energy & home/workplace insulation. It's CHEAPER & would stop MUCH MORE carbon
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Read the full open letter here👇
stopcambo.org.uk/updates/doc…
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Together with these 250 orgs & individuals - including doctors, farmers, bishops, & academics - we're calling on the UK to:
❌ Reject Rosebank
✅ End new oil & gas
✊ Back a properly funded just transition
🔆 Focus on the real solutions to Britain’s broken energy system
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BREAKING 🚨: 250 orgs + individuals are calling on the UK govt to #StopRosebank
Rosebank WON’T lower bills or make our energy more secure. But burning its oil would produce more CO2 than the 28 poorest countries do in a year 🤯
The UK needs to reject Rosebank & all new fields.
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“When maximum sentence for chaining yourself to railings is more than twice maximum sentence for racially aggravated assault, anyone who cares about justice should be appalled”. Spot on @GeorgeMonbiot - Labour should repeal these draconian laws now👇 theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Thanks to @BBCQuestionTime for having me on this evening. We discussed crucial issues facing the UK, including the proposed cuts to winter fuel payments. I argued that what looks like savings in the short term might be a cost in the long term. Cutting support to vulnerable communities is not the path to growth.
Read our recent letter in @FT where we build on this point: The UK Government has an opportunity to break the cycle of underinvestment ➡️ ft.com/content/a8fcf263-8506…
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Worth reading: Carbon Capture Is Mostly An Oil & Gas Industry Shell Game — Masala Flavored cleantechnica.com/2024/09/16… via @cleantechnica
The latest installment of the ongoing seminar series on global decarbonization that I’m leading for India’s utility professionals under the auspices of the India Smart Grid Forum was on carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). It’s an overly hyped, overly hoped for solution that isn’t and won’t scale remotely economically. When you are at the bottom of a hole digging, the first solution is to stop digging, not to have teaspoons of dirt thrown into the hole by someone else. Transcript, slides, and embedded webinar are here for those who like to listen-listen or read-read
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I know exactly how a lot of people like to / manage to dismiss these JSO activists in some way
But what if… just what if… they are in fact the absolutely best of us all.
Acting bravely logically & with great discernment. Because they’ve accurately seen where we’re headed? 🙀
