#withdrawthecap

[theblobfish13]

[missy01141973]

#accountclosed🔒 #withdrawthecap (at Baltimore, Maryland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaGRsP2Mz4NTJP-yoFl2cKoTtgl00VeqnzsrWI0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ericthelemming]

I am asking @frans__timmermans, @ursulavonderleyen, @2021portugaleu and @euagrifood to #WithdrawTheCAP Instead of protesting outside City Hall here in #Linköping I am taking part via #ClimateStrikeOnline for the greater good of society. And so can you, please feel free to join us! This is my 51st week online. On Friday the 23rd of October EU leaders voted to prioritise profit and economic greed over preserving the planet’s habitability for humanity and to incentivise harmful agricultural practices, and the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity over sustainable choices. These choices will not just affect Europe, but the entire world. Habitability, soil fertility, biodiversity and sustainability is more important than short-term profit and economic greed Sign the petition at withdrawthecap.org! #DigitalStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #klimatstrejk‬ #klimat #climate #ClimateCrisis #klimatkris #ClimateBreakdown #NoMoreEmptyPromises #ClimateAction (at Stadshuset (Linköping)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM434JJJ_3F/?igshid=1f3u3jcs2fbqy

[ericthelemming]

Instead of protesting outside City Hall here in #Linköping I am taking part via #ClimateStrikeOnline for the greater good of society. And so can you, please feel free to join us! This is my 45th week online. #WithdrawTheCAP! On Friday the 23rd of October EU leaders voted to prioritise profit and economic greed over preserving the planet’s habitability for humanity and to incentivise harmful agricultural practices, and the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity over sustainable choices. These choices will not just affect Europe, but the entire world. Habitability, soil fertility, biodiversity and sustainability is more important than short-term profit and economic greed Sign the petition at withdrawthecap.org! #DigitalStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #klimatstrejk‬ #klimat #climate 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMp27dpyTV/?igshid=cczeyubhqs4k

[ericthelemming]

Instead of protesting outside City Hall here in #Linköping I am taking part via #ClimateStrikeOnline for the greater good of society. And so can you, please feel free to join us! This is my 40th week online. #WithdrawTheCAP! On Friday the 23rd of October EU leaders voted to prioritise profit and economic greed over preserving the planet’s habitability for humanity and to incentivise harmful agricultural practices, and the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity over sustainable choices. These choices will not just affect Europe, but the entire world. Habitability, soil fertility, biodiversity and sustainability is more important than short-term profit and economic greed Sign the petition at withdrawthecap.org! #DigitalStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #klimatstrejk‬ #klimat #climate https://www.instagram.com/p/CJyRMz1pFbj/?igshid=15ycu10na3344

[ericthelemming]

Instead of protesting outside City Hall here in #Linköping I am taking part via #ClimateStrikeOnline for the greater good of society. And so can you, please feel free to join us! This is my 35th week online (I missed participating last week due to being on customer support duty at work 😔). #WithdrawTheCAP! On Friday the 23rd of October EU leaders voted to prioritise profit and economic greed over preserving the planet’s habitability for humanity and to incentivise harmful agricultural practices, and the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity over sustainable choices. These choices will not just affect Europe, but the entire world. Habitability, soil fertility, biodiversity and sustainability is more important than short-term profit and economic greed Sign the petition at withdrawthecap.org! #DigitalStrike #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike #klimatstrejk‬ #klimat #climate https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYc9Grpg6U/?igshid=1lzu3eo6vkd96

[eco-nnect]

Why Greta Thunberg is angry at the CAP, and why you should be too

“While media was reporting on ‘names of vegan hot dogs’ the EU parliament signed away €387bn to a new agricultural policy that basically means surrender on climate & environment. No awareness means no pressure and accountability so the outcome is no surprise. They just don’t care.”—Greta Thunberg on Twitter

The European Union’s CAP (Common Agriculture Policy) has been around since 1962 as a way to support European farmers in order to ensure a stable supply of affordable food. Currently, it accounts for around 1/3 of the EU budget, and in 2018 the policy was due for a reform. This week—despite the EU’s supposed “green week”— the EU Parliament voted on continued subsidies to farmers without any environmental conditions, infuriating green MEPs and activists who are closely following EU policy—namely Greta Thunberg.

The reformed albeit weak CAP was extremely watered down by Socialists and Renew Groups and then backed by centre-right parties as well. Upon reading the Commission’s intiial proposal the Green Party had already rejected it due to its failure in green commitments.

Agriculture and subsidies have to be taken seriously in order to lower CO2 emissions. Healthy soil stores carbon, whilst industrial farming releases carbon. The current EU system relies on a skewed sense of profitability that the environment can’t subsidise any longer. The EU budget could be the key towards more organic and regenerative farming instead of promoting the status quo.

“Climate change and ecological breakdown pose a severe threat to farming, our food system and our future on this planet and yet a large number of MEPs are wilfully ignoring the enormous scale of the problem.”—Bas Eickhout, a Green MEP

[averycanadianfilm]

This Friday, October 23rd, the EU voted through a new CAP, or Common Agricultural Policy. A policy that fuels ecological destruction with almost 400 billion euros. Our hope now is that The European Commission will make the decision to withdraw this proposal entirely.

Dear EU leaders,

On Friday the 23rd of October, you let us down once again, in voting for a dirty deal, which betrays not only your commitments to the Paris agreement, but also your commitments to justice and to democracy. A deal which was agreed through a backroom compromise, a deal which you have made seemingly every effort to greenwash. Our hope now is that The European Commission will make the decision to withdraw this proposal entirely.

In recent years and months, you have made many promises, such as reducing emissions, to be “climate-neutral” by 2050, and in Paris, you promised to aim to limit global mean temperature increase to well under 2 degrees. On these promises, you are letting us down. You ask us to trust you, but how can we trust you when you make promises - only to break them when it benefits you. Our trust must be earned, and you have done nothing to deserve it.

For more than two years, young people all over the world have been striking from school, and protesting alongside other movements and NGOs, to demand real action from you, our so-called leaders. Over and over again you have smiled, and shown your “support” for our movement and for the Most Affected People and Areas. We have lost count of the number of times you have told us we inspire you, but a movement like ours should not be inspiring to you. There is nothing to be celebrated in the fact that your children must go out onto the streets and demand that you act on a crisis, that fact should make you deeply uncomfortable. The need for the school strikes movement speaks to the failure of people in positions of power, people like you. This Friday, you demonstrated this failure once again, and we will continue to strike because you refuse to stand on the side of justice, the side of the people of this earth, and of generations to come.

On this Friday, you voted to prioritize profit and economic greed over preserving the planet’s habitability for humanity and to incentivize harmful agricultural practices, and the loss of soil fertility and biodiversity, over sustainable choices. These choices will not just impact Europe, but the entire world. Those of you who have abstained from voting have made the same choice. You have chosen instead to inflict disaster and suffering upon the Most Affected People and Areas, upon humanity and generations of people going forward, but you do not need us to tell you this. You did this in the full knowledge of what you were voting for, you know what you have done. Know this as well: We understand the science and we know what is at stake, we are watching, and we will never forgive you. You will not get away with this.