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Damian Carrington
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Damian Carrington
@dpcarrington
I'm Environment Editor at the Guardian | I don't read notifications but my DMs are open | Send info confidentially via this link👇
- THIS - 'Their outrage is justified': Sir David Attenborough backs school climate strikers - older generations have done terrible things to the planet and should listen to young people, he says Story by me #ClimateStrike #FridaysforFuture @GretaThunberg
- Climate experts were increasingly saying that keeping heating below 1.5C is near impossible, yet it remains the global goal. So I asked hundreds of top IPCC scientists what they thought. What they said shocked even me… 🧵 1/n #ClimateCrisis
- Plummeting insect numbers threaten 'catastrophic collapse of nature', finds first global review - rate of extinction is 8x faster than for vertebrates - data suggest they could vanish within a century Exclusive, by me theguardian.com/environment/20…
- Replying to @dpcarringtonHere’s one: “I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the global south. The world’s response to date is reprehensible – we live in an age of fools.” 6/n
- Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows - Detailed analysis finds plant diets lead to 75% less climate-heating emissions, water pollution and land use than meat-rich ones #climatecrisis Story by me
- Replying to @dpcarringtonBut what blew me away was the level of personal anguish among the experts who have dedicated their lives to climate research. Many used words like hopeless, broken, infuriated, scared, overwhelmed. Read their words here: 5/n
- How do you deal with a climate denier? “I don’t” says @GretaThunberg #goodanswer #youthstrike4climate #guardianlive
- THIS The awesome @GretaThunberg meets the awesome Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC 'Hope is contagious' #ClimateEmergency
- Replying to @dpcarringtonWhat is stopping climate action? The scientists pointed overwhelmingly to one barrier: lack of political will (almost 75% of respondents). 10/n
- ‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds - Analysis of US and EU shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat #meat Story by me
- Why the @guardian is putting global CO2 levels in the weather forecast - It's a symbolic reminder that the climate crisis is no longer a future problem – we need to tackle it now, and every day matters, says @KathViner
- “You don’t listen to the science because you are only interested in solutions that enable you to carry on like before,” says @GretaThunberg in speech to UK MPs “You lied to us. You told us the future was something to look forward to" Full speech:
