#Hamburg am Freitag 15:30 Uhr auf dem Rathausmarkt.
#gegenrechts

Für unsere Freunde.
Für die Nachbarn von gegenüber.
Für die am Ende der Straße.
Für den Paketboten.
Für meinen Frisör.
Für den Busfahrer von eben gerade.
Für die Kellnerin von vorhin.
Für die Eltern der Freundinnen meiner Kinder.
Für unseren Platzwart.
Für alle.
Für uns.

#hh1901

They knew. They lied. They need to pay for this.
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"Oil Giant Shell Knew About Climate Impacts Even Earlier"

Following explosive revelations about what ExxonMobil knew about fossil fuels driving global heating, investigations in 2017 and 2018 uncovered that Shell Oil's scientists privately warned about the impact of its products in the 1980s.

However, newly unveiled records show that "Shell began collecting knowledge about climate change in the 1960s. The company not only kept well abreast of climate science, but also funded research. As a result, Shell already knew in the 1970s that burning fossil fuels could lead to alarming climate change."

Faced with a global oil crisis, rather than using its climate information to publicly sound the alarm and shift to cleaner practices, the company "focused instead on a nonsustainable profit model."

The following year, a study Shell was involved with warned that "increases in the CO2 content of the atmosphere could lead to the so-called greenhouse effect... which would be enough to induce major climatic changes." Three years later, another report warned that "the continued burning of fossil fuels will lead to a manifold increase in the atmospheric CO2 concentration."

Duncan Meisel, executive director of the campaign Clean Creatives, which targets advertising and public relations firms that work for fossil fuel companies, declared Monday that "what these new documents show is incredibly disturbing."

"In the 1980s, Shell scientists laid out two pathways for the planet: one where energy companies undertook a smooth transition to clean energy and one where fossil fuel demand continued to rise, creating 'more storms, more droughts, more deluges,'" he summarized. "Since the publication of that forecast, Shell has pushed at every turn to create more fossil fuel demand, creating exactly the devastating outcomes they predicted."

The Center for Climate Integrity said the records provide the world "more damning evidence" that the company knew its business model was having disastrous impacts on the world and its people. As the group put it: "They knew. They lied. They need to pay."
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FULL STORY -- https://www.commondreams.org/news/shell-fossil-fuels-climate-1970s

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Shell

If you only use social media accounts to share terrible news stories about terrible people doing terrible things, you're missing out on a fantastic opportunity to finally be happy.

There's also a strong probability that you're shouting into the void because you've been blocked or muted.

Don't let the bad aspects of the world destroy your opportunity to be cheerful on #Mastodon for once.

You don't need to be a bot for the news corporations.

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https://t.co/KCeLPnGs1G

The difference between Scott Adams and Charles Schulz :

“I believe that our greatest strength lies always in the protection of our smallest minorities.”

— C. Schulz (1970)

#scottadams #dilbert #cartoon #comics #BlackHistoryMonth #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #humanrights #activism #Monday #SilentSunday #quotes #politics #news #love #hate

Hello Mastodon art people! I’m Julia, an illustrator and naturalist from Germany. I’ve quit all social media a few years ago because addictive algorithms, ads, infinite scrolling and tracking surveillance were killing my creativity.
Mastodon is likely the last social media experiment I’ll try. Here are some birds for you, because although I’ve left Twitter, I love drawing birds.

Edit: Since this post, I've made my home here. :-)

#introduction
#illustration #birds #watercolor #art #birb