I weep for the squandered years, the denial, distraction and delay, during which the fossil fuel companies trashed our chances of maintaining a habitable planet.
Time is now so short, and the action required so drastic, that the chance of avoiding catastrophe is slight.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) November 10, 2021

How did the fossil fuel companies wield so much power? Because they were enabled.
They were enabled by a media that, almost universally, belittled the issue and attacked the movements trying to defend the planet.
By the politicians they bought.
By public inertia and complacency.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) November 10, 2021

I weep for the years in which those of us who sought to sound the alarm were few in number and generally treated as either a joke or a threat.
I weep for the loss – already – of so many wonders, for such ephemeral gains.
I weep for my childen and all those to come.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) November 10, 2021

We’re in a time of ecological calamity, economic insanity, information chaos, and almost total loss of hope in the future. The idea that our current world order will only end with a cataclysmic collapse has the ring of messianic prophecy to it. pic.twitter.com/gh7ScEWwAG

— Adbusters (@Adbusters) November 8, 2021

Twenty years (at least) befor everyone else .. adbusters was critiquing the pollution of our mentalscape, the toxic perversion of our culture by capitalism, ..

In my youth it was a rare comforting friend who understood the world as I did. https://t.co/WIDQXp8sb0

— Tariq ☕ (@rzeta0) November 9, 2021

people are like “We can’t just eliminate everyone’s debt.” Dude last night at 3 AM we decided it would become 2 AM, this is in your head.

— Mass for Shut-ins (Podcast) (@edburmila) November 7, 2021

Erm @WPP last time we checked you still work with ExxonMobil, Shell, BP & Chevron… while you use your marketing and comms to “shift opinion & change behaviour” your clients are shifting tonnes of fossil fuels out of the ground & irreversibly changing our climate #greenwash https://t.co/Rv3qYvh5fy

— Adblock Bristol (@AdblockBristol) November 4, 2021

Similarly, for ad agencies to think they can ‘engage’ Big Oil companies to stop being Big Oil companies is utterly deluded. You wouldn’t ‘engage’ with a tobacco company to transition away from cigarettes. You stop working for them. And if you don’t, legislation will force you to.

— Robbie Gillett (@RobbieGillett) November 3, 2021

Cultural activities are the prime target for polluters & fossil fuel funders to do their #greenwashing. Enough is enough. There should be no welcome for these identities in museums, music festivals or theatres… https://t.co/wEzPWt5bHF

— Massive Attack (@MassiveAttackUK) October 30, 2021

Social media corporations fail to act to protect billions of people from the harm caused by climate change disinfo on their platforms, while making millions from corporate greenwashing ads. https://t.co/FpRHj7ilau is watching.
Music by Eco-Bot co-creator 3D of @MassiveAttackUK. pic.twitter.com/cznMIt3c5k

— Eco-Bot.Net (@EcoBotNet) November 1, 2021

Welcome to https://t.co/FpRHj7ilau – an online intervention into hidden ecosystems of climate change disinfo + corporate greenwashing. Through #COP26 https://t.co/FpRHj7ilau is flagging greenwashing ads + posts on social media, and dropping ad data on high-polluting sectors. pic.twitter.com/PxQFSq2jQ9

— Eco-Bot.Net (@EcoBotNet) November 1, 2021

Outright climate denial is now politically unacceptable but a growing movement that casts doubt on the solutions and exaggerates their costs has emerged in its place.

— Rich Collett-White (@RichardCollettW) October 25, 2021

The US now has 5 companies valued at more than $1 trillion:
– Apple
– Amazon
– Facebook
– Google
– Tesla

The US doesn’t have:
– Universal healthcare
– Housing for all
– Affordable higher education
– Clean drinking water nationwide
– Safe, well-maintained infrastructure

— redacted tonight #FreeAssange #FreeDonziger (@RedactedTonight) October 26, 2021

From 2015 – 2020, the UK wasted £726 million supporting @Shell‘s oil & gas drilling.

Last year alone, the UK gov paid @Shell £110 million of public money.

This is has to end. That money should fund a fair & fast transition for oil and gas workers, not more dangerous extraction.

— Paid to Pollute (@PaidToPollute) October 26, 2021

It is crucial to bear in mind that the industry’s problem is not data “protection,” it is data COLLECTION. Mass surveillance must be recognized as a crime, not a business model. https://t.co/L7Bu9otMWt

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 23, 2021

Pro tip: If your country’s response to a pandemic is a gigantic, unprecedented corporate looting spree followed by horrifying death rates, an eviction crisis and supply chain disruptions, your economic system is broken. You’re going to want to replace it ASAP.

— ✊? Stained Class (@DEMS_R_GOP) October 15, 2021

The heads of @Shell & other big polluters are driving the climate crisis, guilty of human rights abuses & putting millions of lives at risk.

They should be in court, not on the main stage of #TEDCountdown.

If you are in Edinburgh, join us at 12 todayhttps://t.co/ISORwFnBu3 pic.twitter.com/teFfyNAZpK

— StopCambo (@StopCambo) October 14, 2021

The function of privatized charities run by billionaires is not to do social good. Is the same function as privatizing anything else: to prevent democratic oversight, and ensure that the capitalist class controls and directs all labor, even labor for social good.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) October 13, 2021

This why no billionaire, even after death, gives their money to any institution that is even vaguely democratically answerable to the public at large. They believe the public should have no say in what is done, even over projects designed to benefit the public.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) October 13, 2021

The advertising industry is fuelling climate disaster, and it’s getting away with it | Andrew Simms https://t.co/83kEyIf6To
(can’t really add anything to this headline except: #BrainPollution #BanFossilAds @badvertising11 @adfreecities)

— Andrew Simms (@AndrewSimms_uk) October 11, 2021

The fossil fuel industry have already guaranteed 100s of millions of people will die from the #ClimateCrisis.

The greatest crime in human history has already happened, and the perpetrators are not only walking free but continue their crime to this very day.

— Scientist Rebellion (@ScientistRebel1) October 6, 2021

I don’t know, doing anything but activism feels pointless to me right now, what are degrees, jobs and other things good for if we lose the planet?

— Dom?? (@climatedom) October 6, 2021

“Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals” pic.twitter.com/D53Q3MNzcf

— Radical Graffiti (@GraffitiRadical) October 5, 2021

Before the pandemic, there was 1 person worth $100 billion. Now there are 10.

Before the pandemic, those 10 people were worth $650 billion. Now they are worth $1.4 trillion.

And the Senate is ready to shut down the government and deny vital services to avoid taxing them at all.

— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) September 29, 2021

If you think elites won’t exploit a crisis for power. You don’t have the simplest understanding of how any of this works.

— #BahamaDon ?? (@N8TheCre8tive) October 2, 2021

homeless people don’t make me feel unsafe, living in a society that will toss people to the curb makes me feel unsafe

— Robin Castro (@Robin4PDX) October 2, 2021

The working class can expect nothing from the press of the capitalist class but misrepresentation and injustice in the struggle for its rights. The working class must build up a powerful press of its own and this vital fact it cannot realize too soon.

— Eugene V. Debs (@DebsEbooks) October 3, 2021

“ExxonMobil is the greatest single-use plastic waste polluter in the world, contributing 5.9m tonnes to the global waste mountain.”

Fossil fuels and the plastic crisis are two faces of the same dirty coin.#BreakFreeFromPlastic #ClimateEmergency https://t.co/uN0MREv8XR

— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) October 3, 2021

The number of corporations jumping on board the net zero trend should tell you exactly how useless it is. Hell, even Amazon is coordinating a net zero 2040 push now!

— Adbusters (@Adbusters) September 27, 2021

“Green growth” is the fairytale they hope will lull us to sleep as the world burns.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) September 27, 2021

Did you imagine you’d see democracy dismantled in your lifetime?

Eventually, each of us confronts in ourselves the question of if and how we will fight for it. https://t.co/6ipxWgNIhX

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 26, 2021

We need advertising to *stop* promoting fossil fuels and other climate destruction enablers or selling us lies about what matters in life.

“Subvertising” is a way to *reclaim these privatised spaces* and promote an alternative, healthier system. pic.twitter.com/RtSAbzCHnR

— Extinction Rebellion Lambeth ? (@XRLambeth) September 22, 2021

It is extraordinary that people have come to accept an economic system where you have to be rich simply to afford decent housing—something that can and should be a basic public good.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) September 22, 2021

Just learned that congress members have $93 million in fossil fuel stocks. Seems like a slight conflict of interest.

— Read Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (@JoshuaPotash) September 6, 2021

Under capitalism, “private property” is not about the right to have your own home and belongings. It is about the right of elites to enclose and appropriate commons: forests, subsurface minerals, water, the atmosphere, public goods, even knowledge itself.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) September 7, 2021

Mass poverty is not some kind of primordial lack; it is the result of an economic system that appropriates resources from the South, pays wages below the cost of subsistence, drains profits, and seeks to militate against attempts at sovereign economic development.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) August 29, 2021

What is the climate crisis if not colonialism persevering

— Bora Chang (@Borabeet) March 2, 2021

Bush and Blair plunged into Afghanistan without realistic aims, without an exit plan and with a mission that crept and mutated by the day. As many of us warned at the time, it was hard to see how it would end well. We were, as usual dismissed and reviled.

— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) August 15, 2021

Massive corporations are sacking the wild for short term profits. They’ve been lying about it for decades, and now only 19% of land on Earth is wild
. . .
so when we say “for the wild”, we mean FOR THE WILD — #GENERALSTRIKE — 09/17/21

— Adbusters (@Adbusters) September 1, 2021

Billionaires privatizing space exploration is some real sci-fi villain shit, how is anyone cheerleadering these ghouls? Get it together, people.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) July 13, 2021

Oh, we live in a democracy?
Do you get a vote on who runs your company?
Do you get a vote on what products are made?
Do you get a vote on how to distribute resources?
Do you get a vote on what housing is built?
Do you get a vote on what movies get made?

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) August 5, 2021

When you are 10 years old they say to follow your dreams.

When you are 20 years old they say that you are naive idiot for following your dreams, because they don’t fit into global capitalism.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) August 19, 2021

The thing about the G7 is that they are basically a mafia of imperialist powers who dominate global arms sales, habitually coup progressive govts in the South, prop up right-wing dictatorships, and are responsible for 77% of excess emissions. It doesn’t exactly inspire trust.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) June 11, 2021

When billionaires talk about how they plan to stop climate change, 99% of the time they are actually talking about profiting off climate change. They want to own the growing green sector so they can control it, prevent democratic oversight, and profit from it.

Do not trust them.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) June 6, 2021

What’s extraordinary about capitalism is that it produces apocalypse and then tries to sell itself as the only reasonable solution to apocalypse.

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) November 9, 2020

Advertising is the worst industry on the planet because if you think you know of a worse one, advertisers promote that industry too.⁠

This poster was a collaboration with @specialpatrols, installed by them across the London underground a couple of years back. pic.twitter.com/QmnpdJQ6hQ

— Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives (@darren_cullen) April 27, 2021

Hey @WWF , when you lend your brand and credibility to fossil fuel financiers like @HSBC for their new ‘Climate Solutions Partnership’, does that come with any stipulations about how soon they must stop funding coal, oil and gas projects? https://t.co/5PxtAaPMdg

— Brandalism (@BrandalismUK) May 24, 2021

“One of our overall findings is that Exxon Mobil has used rhetoric mimicking the tobacco industry to downplay the reality and seriousness of climate change and to shift responsibility for climate change away from itself and onto consumers.” https://t.co/unpS2DAe1K

— Scientific American (@sciam) May 15, 2021

Anarchism is humanity’s next evolutionary step—not some primitive stage people pass through. Neoclassical economics is the dinosaur. Rational self-interest is what you grow out of—along with bongs, giant woofers and Ayn Rand.

But what is anarchism? https://t.co/qfkz1xRldr pic.twitter.com/XxItOyk24T

— Adbusters (@Adbusters) May 12, 2021

The average millennial with a laptop and a smartphone is about, give or take, eight million times more productive than a dozen Boomers were in the 1980s but is still paid less than one was and can’t afford to support a family on a single income.

— critical grace theorist ? (@girlziplocked) April 13, 2021

When liberals call for ending white supremacy it is something very different than what I am talking about. When I say destroy white supremacy I mean end the Pan European colonial/capitalist project & all its supporting structures like IMF, World Bank, WTO, NATO & dollarization.

— Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) March 19, 2021

Only 0.7% of the British population are millionaires.
78% of all MPs are millionaires.
So who does
‘Representative Democracy’
Represent ?

— Otto Von Jizzmark (@Ottojizzmark) April 6, 2021

Don’t get it twisted: the Pentagon is the biggest polluter on the planet. Any effort to combat climate chaos that doesn’t slash the Pentagon isn’t serious.

— Elizabeth Beavers (@_ElizabethRB) April 9, 2021

at some point we have to recognise that the financial anxiety young people are living through is not normal. monetising all your hobbies is not normal. hustle culture is not normal. glorifying precarious work is not normal. self-optimisation is not normal.

— diyora (диёра) (@thediyora) March 28, 2021

It’s the 20s we have mass unemployment, economic crisis, openly eugenicist media political figures, protest is criminalised, 100s of 1000s have died as a result of a decade of populist government. If you’re not fighting with your whole chest yet, you’re an idiot or complicit

— @themendozawoman

This government isn’t incompetent. It’s deliberate. The evil fuckers know exactly what they are doing and they know that just enough of the population are too stupid to realise that they are being robbed in broad daylight.

— jojo77 ? (@other_mrs) March 18, 2021

We are a police state, with poverty as deliberate policy, we defend apartheid & arm genocidal regimes, we ignore international law, we break treaties, we host global corruption, our covid-19 response failed, we promote racist hostility: we are a failed state. #ToryBritain

— Dolly… #resist #revolt #remove ???? (@Calumets) March 14, 2021

Don’t even know what to say with this bill passing. We’re literally liable for 10 years imprisonment if we throw tomatoes at a statue or other prosecutions if we gather and shout too loud in public. We need to stop talking about the “road” to fascism, we’ve already arrived.

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) March 16, 2021

Capitalism: good news! with technology we can produce more with half the work.
Workers: cool! so we only have to work half the hours?
Capital: …
Workers: we get paid double?
Capital: …
Workers: we retire sooner?
Capital: …
Workers: …
Capital: btw, we rolled back your pensions

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) October 24, 2019

The Conservatives have slashed corporation tax to one of the lowest rates in the world.

It should be raised, along with a windfall tax on companies that have made obscene profits.

The super-rich and big businesses should pay for this crisis, not the working class.

— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) February 25, 2021

Heathrow Airport has pledged to go carbon neutral by 2030, not including “emissions from planes”.

BP is going carbon neutral by 2050, not including “emissions from the use of their products”.

Capitalism is going to kill you. But it also thinks you’re stupid.

— Sam Knights (@samjknights) February 21, 2020

If the government can’t aid us in times of crises what the fuck do we have one for

— BamLa (@carmillacheck) February 17, 2021

One of capitalism’s biggest PR scams is the “philanthropist.”

The average billionaire donates 1% of their fortune to charity yearly – less than non-billionaires. But when you donate $200 you don’t get glowing articles, a hospital named after you and a massive tax write off.

— Dan Price (@DanPriceSeattle) February 21, 2021