Sometime in January, right around the time I participated in the Women's March on Washington, a few things happened in a confluence. There were worries that scientific and climate data would be taken down which have since been proven on the data and the qualitative phrasing. There were actual media blackouts of the EPA communications that led to first the National Park Service and then all government scientists going rogue with "Alt" Twitter handles (hearts to the founders and authors of these!). There was So-Called President 45 tweeting irresponsibly. There was article after article about the nihilist pick by the Republican Administration to lead the EPA (and this was before the emails revealed how crony he is, vomit). All I could think was "quick! how can I record the truth on climate change in a way that will be most needling to President 45?" And so my datasheets of tweets repasting what the EPA website says on climate change was born. Since January, the twitter handle for this blog (@enviroish) has tweeted over 2500 times to @realdonaldtrump and @EPAScottPruitt (formerly @scottpruittOK) with very short quotes in succession from the EPA website. A tweet-sized documentation of climate truth from the EPA. It's micro, it's certainly not the most impactful thing I've done as part of my resistance...but it helps me sleep at night. Literally because I know that every 10-15 minutes my prescheduled tweets are being sent out around the clock. In essence my Twitter handle continues resisting while I catch some R&R.
After the jump is how I did this so that you can do it too if interested. There's a free way to schedule tweets in which you would write your own (more time-consuming, but opportunity to focus on what matters most to you). If you want to do the bulk uploader of my climate tweets, I've made that available too (HUGE time-saver!)
Whether you personally work on taking back Twitter for the resistance or not, just make sure you keep resisting. Our climate is already showing no mercy when it comes to the emissions we've done to date, so show no mercy for those who deny the science. #nocompromise #neversurrender #nevergiveupthefight
(more after the jump)
After the jump is how I did this so that you can do it too if interested. There's a free way to schedule tweets in which you would write your own (more time-consuming, but opportunity to focus on what matters most to you). If you want to do the bulk uploader of my climate tweets, I've made that available too (HUGE time-saver!)
Whether you personally work on taking back Twitter for the resistance or not, just make sure you keep resisting. Our climate is already showing no mercy when it comes to the emissions we've done to date, so show no mercy for those who deny the science. #nocompromise #neversurrender #nevergiveupthefight
(more after the jump)
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