Maggie 🌻 Merchant 🦋 PhD 🥥💙

🐋💙 Thank you so much to renowned actor @MartinSheen for this touching message to #FreePaulWatson! "Just imagine the healing effect on our ailing planet if every nation could produce at least one environmentalist with the courage and commitment of a Paul Watson, now imagine our planet without the only one." - Martin Sheen How You Can Help #FREEPAULWATSON. Every action counts. Post on Social Media : Amplify our call for justice using your own platforms, include #FreePaulWatson @captainpaulwatson @mette @peterhummelgaard

Sea Shepherd’s Valentina Crast Speaks Out Against Whale Hunts seashepherd.org/2024/12/07/sea…

SCOOP: Albertans were surprised to learn cougars can now be hunted in some provincial parks — using hounds. But the government faced a hurdle: off-leash dogs are not allowed in parks. So it quietly amended provincial park regulations to make an exception. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-cougar…

While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country. This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.

As the COP29 climate meeting is reaching its end, it should not come as a surprise that yet another COP is failing. The current draft is a complete disaster. But even if our expectations are close to non-existent, we must never ever find ourselves reacting to these continuous betrayals with anything but rage. The people in power are yet again about to agree to a death sentence to the countless people whose lives have been or will be ruined by the climate crisis. The current text is full of false solutions and empty promises. The money from the Global North countries needed to pay back their climate debt is still nowhere to be seen. The host country - Azerbaijan - is a repressive and authoritarian petro-state that has committed ethnic cleansing and genocidal acts towards Armenians. Civil society present at COP29 are being silenced, yet continue fighting and pushing negotiators towards the bare minimum. All this while oppression, inequalities, wars and genocides all over the world continue to intensify. Those in power are worsening the destabilisation and destruction of our life supporting ecosystems. We are on track to experience the hottest year ever recorded, with the global greenhouse gases reaching an all time high just last year. It is clear that our current systems are not working in our favour. The COP processes aren’t just failing us, they are part of a larger system built on injustice and designed to sacrifice current and future generations for the opportunity of a few to keep making unimaginable profits and continue to exploit planet and people. With every negotiation, with every speech made by a world leader and with every agreement they sign, it becomes clear that it is up to us as a global collective to take the action we so desperately need and show where the leadership truly lies. They are not going to do it for us, as this COP29 yet again proves. #COP29 #PayUp #ClimateJusticeNow