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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · May 23

We're super excited to share that we've started a new Substack publication, where we'll dive deeper into ideas for a better future, how we can make it a reality, and more.

We've launched with a piece on the Overton Window and the need to push for radical change ⬇️

The Earthly | earthlyeducation | Substack

Earthly aims to drive systemic change on the climate and ecological crisis through building awareness and mobilising communities into tangible action. Click to read The Earthly, by earthlyeducation, a...

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 20d

Have you registered for the national day of celebrating Solar and Clean Energy on September 21?! Sun Day!! Find an event near you ⬇️🌞

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Together, we will change the future of climate change. Join the largest movement for climate action.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 20d

solar panels don’t cause massive oil spills. they don’t explode. they don’t poison drinking water. they don't cloud the air with deadly pollution. and they don't collapse the climate. they just sit there, quietly making light into life.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · 22d

when truth is suspect, power rests with whoever can shout the loudest, or spend the most.

Do not underestimate the role Big Oil played in much of humanity losing their minds

fossil fuels did not just overheat the planet, they destabilised democracies, rewired culture, & poisoned collective thought. dismantling big oil is not just a climate fight, it is a fight for sanity

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29d

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29d

Protestors in Nepal overthrew the government in less than 48 hours due to corruption. They refused a curfew, spread protests across all cities, fought police in roaming street battles, burnt down politicians' houses, stole military weapons, stormed the parliament & burnt it, forced the PM to resign.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 7

I think I would take reactionary centrists more seriously if they could cite one (1) example of progressives pushing for social change the *right* way -- using just the right slogans, supporting just the right policies, protesting in just the right fashion.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

critiqued by everyone across the political spectrum.. to then take a big breath and try to be better the next day.

send some love to those doing this work because it's needed

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

not sure if many people understand how difficult it is to try and effectively communicate the death of our living world, to millions of people, to then be ridiculed, mocked, violently threatened, digitally harassed, underpaid, chronically stressed, criticised and...

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

if even half of it happens, it will be one of the most historic clean energy surges ever, transforming development, cutting emissions, and showing what rapid renewable rollout can look like.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country, just announced a massive solar push, aiming to light up villages with small solar-and-battery microgrids alongside bigger solar farms.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

beautiful! an Australian NGO has released 147 brush-tailed bettongs! these squirrel-sized marsupials are vital ecosystem engineers, digging fungi and enriching soils. drawn from a thriving predator-free population of over 1,000, they’re now going “beyond the fence.”

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

"climate scientists are protesting as their research shows we are only years away from complete collapse" could be a headline every single day and yet the billionaire press continues to hide the truth. their silence is complicity.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

I'll never forget when the Climate Minister told me "I live in the real world, and we can't just make things happen overnight" and then a few weeks later his party passed a law, *overnight*, making climate activists face more severe punishments than someone committing real crimes

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

you can say whatever you want, but the reality is that without drastically reducing animal agriculture, our planet's climate will collapse

that's not some woke nonsense, that's the cold hard scientific fact

we are putting burgers ahead of our future

"most intelligent species" my ass

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

they produced and exported so much of the renewable infrastructure for other countries last year that they reduced the entire world's emissions by an entire percent

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

one of the more difficult things to come around to is that for my whole life, I have been told that it is China that is destroying the climate, and now, we are seeing China lead the world towards a rapid transition to clean energy

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pope Leo is turning out to be just as much of a green pope as Francis. Why do we care? Because he leads 1.4 billion Catholics and has nearly as big a platform as the anti-climate "president" of 340 million Americans.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

Should we send politicians to prison for climate crimes? New data shows the overwhelming majority of the public think so.

Should we send politicians to prison for climate crimes? The majority of the public think so.

72% of people in 18 G20 countries support making it a criminal offence for government or leaders to cause serious damage to nature and climate

www.thecanary.co

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

if your country is cracking down on activists whilst protecting corporations, please know that this is absolutely what the rise of fascism looks like and you should be doing all you can to remove them... or else one day, you will wake up and realise that you have become their next target.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 22

"I don't think corporations should be allowed to destroy our planet"

"ah, I don't do politics"

do you hear yourself?

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 20

"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping." - Hubert Reeves.

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 20

yet we act as if it’s disposable, dreaming of other worlds or heavens above while wrecking the only one that could ever truly be home

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 20

the statistical improbability of our planet - it's just the right distance from the sun, the perfect tilt for seasons, a protective atmosphere, the right chemical compositions, water in all its form - makes it the rarest treasure in the universe

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EarthlyEducation @earthlyeducation.bsky.social · Aug 20

I find the idea of heaven borderline offensive to the miracle planet beneath our feet

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