My first post here may also be my last thread on the bird app:

I can’t help but see the parallels between a billionaire destroying our digital world here on Twitter and billionaires doing the same thing to our planet. Possibly my last 🧵 here?

I first heard of Twitter when climate activists were using it to organize & communicate at the UN climate summit COP 13 in Bali, Indonesia in 2007. To tweet with your phone at the time you had to send a text, the reason for the 140 character limit.

When I joined twitter in 2009, my first tweet was about a report we'd just published at
the Council of Canadians on why the #JustTransition needs to be Green, Decent, & Public. For me & many others this has always been an important space for organizing for peace, ecology, and human rights.

And now, Twitter is breaking down before our eyes as climate progress is being blocked by billionaires and corporations at the latest round of UN climate talks. Our digital and offline worlds are on fire and the 1% keeps fanning the flames.

At every turn since the billionaire grifter took over, Twitter engineers have said Twitter can't survive without this system, as he dismantled each one. Just as scientists and Indigenous knowledge holders have said of the many ecological systems billionaires are setting ablaze.

It may be too late to save Twitter, but it's not too late to save the world and win a future for our species and countless others that's free of the whims of billionaires and the injustices of this system.

I hope if nothing else, the end of Twitter is the beginning of the end of billionaires and the unjust system that gave rise to them. Together, let's keep organizing to win a just transition and a Green New Deal. Let's abolish billionaires so they can't Twitter the climate.

If you're looking for a way to get involved, here's one place you can start https://canadians.org/justtransition/

#AbolishBillionaires #GreenNewDeal #JustTransition #RIPTwitter #ClimateCrisis #COP27