Good morning to everyone who is going to troll an oil company today
The goal of bullying Big Oil companies over their climate tweets isn’t just to educate people about corporate hypocrisy. It’s to unite activists around the goal of taking away their social license to operate.
Oil majors have admitted to investors that their business would be in deep trouble without broad public support. They’ve also admitted the biggest threat to maintaining social license is public anger over climate change.
Oil companies could remedy this threat by winding down their fossil fuel operations, and investing heavily in renewable energy. But for the most part, they’ve chosen to combat public anger over climate change by investing in strategic communication.This consistent choice of empty climate words over meaningful climate action is why several Shell executives quit the company this week—and it’s why Heglar says social media call-outs are increasingly powerful.
This is what I told a very well-meaning Facebook friend who posted this image and told everyone to stop using plastic bags.
Thank you for sharing this and speaking out. We are in a desperate situation.
Even if every single person decided to cut disposable plastics out of their lives, the Earth would still be doomed. The fact is, 63% of the industrial carbon pollution released into the atmosphere since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution can be traced to just under 100 companies.
If we do not hold these major companies (Chevron, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, British Petroleum, Gazprom, Shell, the National Iranian Oil Company, etc.) accountable, future generations will be left with a barely habitable planet.
Also, major meat and dairy companies have become some of the world’s biggest polluters.
We need a complete overhaul of our current society. Yes, please avoid plastic bags and disposable cutlery when possible, but also support organizations that work to end climate change. Share the work of researchers who study climate change. Vote for politicians who take climate change seriously (our sitting president believes climate change is a hoax). Consider consuming less meat (especially since Americans already eat too much meat and dairy than is normal or healthy). Attend a climate march.
We all need to take action—we only have one planet and it is being destroyed.
The most known effect of Climate Change is the gradient of temperature and the fact that the ice of the poles melts but what are sideeffects of this gradient?
The rising of temperature effects the activities of animals, their obsolescence and their reproduction. Their ability of rivalry and their trophicrelation. Furthermore animals will leave their old habitat and search for a new one because they aren’t adapted to their old one and an adaption is needed to survive.
Of course, the ice will melt too and their habitat gets smaller and smaller wich is also a cause to leave it. Besides the number of rainfall will change and the sea level will rise. And the absence of ice will lead to erosion of the coasts.
But what will happen to the animals? Let’s have a closer look at an example.
This is krill, the most important organism in the polare seas. It’s nutriment to most nearly every creature in the antarctica, dircetly or indirectly.
Krill eats phytoplankton which lives under massive ice. If the ice melts there will be a a big leck in the offer of nutriment for the krill wich will lead to a high number of deaths of the krill. Furthermore the rising absorption of carbon dioxide will make the oceans acid. The shell of krill is made of calcium wich is the reason why the acid sea can destroy the shells easier and baby krill die more often because their shells can’t be build.
The missing of krill has an huge effect of every creature on the antarctica. Orcas eat seals. Seals eats cods. Cods eat herrings. Herrings eat krill. And there isn’t enough krill out there. So ther won’t be enough herrings. Consequently there won’t be enough cods. Consequently there won’t be enough seals. Consequently there won’t be enough Orcas. Huge networks of nutriment will collapse and the ecosystem will be destroyed.
Climate Change has an huge impact of the life of millions out there. It isn’t just bad for humans but it will be the decline of millions of millions of organism.
What should humans do?
make laws about fishing in polare seas
use environmentally friendly methodes of fishing which don’t destroy the habitats
don’t use routes which lead through habitats directly
avoid harvaries (yes, nobody does it intentional)
avoid tourism in arctic zones because people will detroy habitats, disturb animals, destroy organism and bring in different creatures to the habitats wich will have an negative impacts on it
create ‘nationalpark’ zones to protect the nature
stop Climate change
What shoul you do?
eat less fish (which was caught near the antarctica)
reduce the waste of plastics
try different methodes to stop Climate Change like saving energy or stop pollution
spreadthe message by sharing this post, telling your friends or posting about the climate crisis too
Ecosystems around the globe need us to save them because we are the ones who will kill them slowly.
I keep reading things like this and i keep hearing things like “we have to save the planet” and “humans are destroying our planet” but guess what? Nobody wants to do it.
Nobody wants to use less palm oil, plastics and so on. Nobody wants to do something different than liking posts on Instagram and keep telling how good all the anti climate change protests are.
And it fucks me up because we need to do something. And everyone is we.
I’ve got friends who tell me how bad the use if palm oil is and that we need to stop to cut down the rainforest and those friends are eating Nutella at the same time.
I’ve got friends who tell me how great Friday For Future is and how important this idea is but guess what, those friends are wearing the lastest clothes and do absolutly nothing but talk about how evil humans are.
I do not want to say i am a better person but i keep trying and i want to make a change.
And so can you. Everybody is able to help our planet. Everybody can save it!!! Stop talking and start doing it.
(Same time ago i posted about how you can help our planet.)
Stop being someone who says “the humans are destroying the earth” and start recognizing that we are destroying the earth - but we can change it. There is still hope.
The demonstracions which take place every friday are a good idea to make sure more people weak up and start caring about climate change. Greta Thunberg is a role model to many young children and her goals are really remarkable.
But many teenager just think it is ’cool’ to be a part of the movement but totally forget this is about politics.
Many of them wear the latest fashion and constantly get new stuff. They use make up which is filled with micro particlesandpalm oil. This has a great impact on the nature too.
When you demonstrate for something you should totally agree with it and start doing something against it instead of joining a movement without even knowing what’s going on.
To do something against climate change you could eat less meat, don’t buy palm oil products anymore, save water, use less plastics, try to waste less paper and plastic and so on.
So if you think about joining Fridays For Future you should think first what this movement is about and what you can do as a person to stop climate change.
It is extremely important that networks connect climate change to extreme heat and extreme weather in general. The science linking climate change and extreme heat is very strong, and climate change has increased the frequency, size, and duration of extreme heat events.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther’s got it exactly right: climate change is real and it’s affecting communities around the world. Even one year later, news outlets are not giving climate change the attention it deserves. Media need to stop neglecting to inform the public about how the climate crisis is connected to extreme weather and so much else.
Climate activists are calling on the Democratic National Committee to make climate change the sole focus of at least one of its 12 planned presidential primary debates, and activists will be presenting petition signatures to the DNC headquarters this Wednesday.
On May 6, the United Nations released a summary of a major new report warning that human destruction of the natural world, including through climate change, now threatens up to a million species with extinction. May 6 was also the day that royal baby Archie was born.
This cartoon has nine panels, arranged in a three by three grid, with a small “kicker” panel under the bottom of the cartoon.
Panel 1
We see two people on the train tracks. They are not tied to the tracks, but they are tied together, so neither one could move without the other. One person has black hair in a pony tail; the other has wavy hair and is wearing capri pants. Ponytail has a panicked expression, while Capri looks wryly amused.
PONYTAIL: I can’t believe we’re tied together on the train tracks.
CAPRI: Are we sure these are train tracks?
Panel 2
Ponytail turns her head back towards Capri to urgently suggest a plan.
PONYTAIL: If we work together, we can crawl off before a train comes.
CAPRI: There’s no evidence any train is coming.
Panel 3
Ponytail shouts a bit, angry, and Capri laughs.
PONYTAIL: The train comes at this time every day!
CAPRI: HA! What’s happened in the past can’t predict the future.
Panel 4
Ponytail panics, yelling, and Capri responds with amused dismissal.
PONYTAIL: The tracks are shaking!
CAPRI: it’s natural shaking. Haven’t you heard of earthquakes.
Panel 5
Ponytail angrily yells, and Capri sneers. (It’s a mix of a grin and a sneer).
PONYTAIL: LISTEN TO ME! I’m a train engineer, and
CAPRI: Pfft! “Engineers” are just in it for the money.
Panel 6
A close up of their heads. Ponytail is terrified now, sweat droplets flying off her. Capri remains amused.
PONYTAIL: Let’s get off the tracks, just in case! HURRY!
CAPRI: Expend all that effort over what might be nothing?
Panel 7
Ponytail yells, her eyes as big as dessert plates.
PONYTAIL: I CAN SEE THE TRAIN! WE’RE GONNA DIE!
CAPRI: You’re being hysterical.
Panel 8
This panel contains only a sound effect, in big overlapping letters, with stars flying around: CRASH
Panel 9
The same two characters are hovering in the sky, in angel outfits, including wings and halos. Capri is shrugging but still smiling; Ponytail is yelling angrily.
CAPRI ANGEL: Okay, maybe there was a train.
PONYTAIL ANGEL: WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?
Small kicker panel under the bottom of the cartoon.
A bald guy talks to a fat guy with a ponytail and glasses (i.e., me, the cartoonist).
BALD GUY: Cute cartoon, but what if some readers don’t get that it’s a metaphor for global warming denial?
BARRY: I’ll find some subtle way to let them know!
