Extinction Rebellion Oxford
xroxford.org
Extinction Rebellion Oxford
@xroxford.org
We are Extinction Rebellion Oxford and we are your neighbours, your colleagues, your relatives, and your friends.

We carry out peaceful, joyful, direct action against Government inaction on climate and ecological catastrophe.
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🛢️GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION 🛢️

Saturday 15 Nov
12-2 Cornmarket, Oxford

🛢️World-wide campaign to raise awareness of critical failures to cut fossil fuel emissions

Join us!
🎶singing, drumming, leafletting & talking to people
🛢️UK Government must stop fossil fuel production

@stopcambo.bsky.social
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3/ Deforestation in the Amazon basin has been linked to declines of rains be8ng transported South towards Sao Paulo...

www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/...
The Amazon effect: how deforestation is starving São Paulo of water
When a devastating drought two years ago brought this metropolis of 21 million to the brink, the army prepared to barricade reservoirs. Could it happen again?
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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2/ In 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷 the largest city in South America, saw its taps nearly run dry.

The main reservoirs had reached just 6% capacity after an extreme drought
Sao Paulo's water supply in 'critical' condition as drought bites
Crucial reservoir is down to 6% of its capacity and experts warn urgent steps must be taken after worst conditions for 80 years
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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9/ and today in 2025 the President of Iran 🇮🇷 has warned that the capital city Terhan, home to nearly 20 million, is almost out of water and could need to be evacuated!

Will this the first city to reach day zero?

www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
Iran plans water cuts for Tehran amid worst drought in decades
Iranian officials on Saturday were drawing plans for periodic water supply cuts to Tehran neighbourhoods a day after President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that the Iranian capital might have to be evacua...
www.france24.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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8/ A @wwattribution.bsky.social concluded that the 2024 heat wave in Mexico was made many times more likely by #climate change from fossil fuel burning

www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-heat...
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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7/ Last year, Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽 faced its day zero own crisis

www.latimes.com/world-nation...
This mega-city is running out of water. What will 22 million people do when the taps run dry?
The challenge in Mexico City, built amid lakes by the Aztecs, had long been getting rid of water, not storing it. Now its taps are running dry.
www.latimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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6/ In 2019 Chennai, India 🇮🇳 home to 10 million people faced crisis as its reservoirs ran dry

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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5/ A subsequent study of this the Cape Town drought concluded that " #climate change made this event five to six times more likely relative to the early 20th century"

A risk that continues to grow.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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4/ In, 2018 Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 came within a few days of 'Day Zero' where the water supply of the city would be completely empty.

www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/...
Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?
In 10 weeks engineers will turn off water for a million homes as this South African city reacts to a one-in-384-year drought. The rich are digging boreholes, more are panic-buying bottled water, and t...
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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In 2020 @wwf.panda.org identified the 100 global cities expected to suffer the greatest rise in water risk by 2050- home to at least 350 million people!

We've already seen several megacities just days away from running dry.

Here's a🧵 with eg's
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Brilliant new ad campaign I just spotted at the Southwark tube station in London.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Next Friday 14 Nov 5 - 6pm in front of Highbury and Islington Station join
Islington Trades Council, and Islington environmental and #climatechange campaigners to support the Trade Union Year of #ClimateAction, which is also supported by the TUC and linked to the #COP30 in Brazil
November 7, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Teresa made this beautiful embroidery for Ed Miliband, recognising the immense pressure he must come under from his colleagues, & encouraging him not to sink billions into carbon capture & storage & to put money instead into a mass insulation scheme & solar panels on every suitable roof
💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚🙏🏽💚
November 7, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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The @tuc.org.uk has voted to back a Year of Trade Union Climate Action & #COP30 in Brazil is a key moment of global solidarity. The 14th November is a day for taking workplace action, coming together to demand action to tackle the climate crisis @cacctu.bsky.social
www.cacctu.org.uk/year_of_clim...
Help build a trade union year of climate action
Trade unions have always fought both for workers’ rights and for the changes needed to make society better. Now is our time to step up again - this time to protect the very conditions of life, and saf...
www.cacctu.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Poisoning people & nature with toxic plumes is fine, says the Court of Appeal 💔

Incinerators are climate-destroying, polluting monsters, the last thing our precious Jurassic coast needs.

Huge love to everyone in Portland, Dorset who fought so hard. We honour you.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Portland incinerator set to go ahead after court decision
Opponents argue the incinerator will cause air pollution and damage the local tourism industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Planting the AMOC Bomb 💣 outside Parliament on Guy Fawkes Day

#AMOC

💣You refused to warn the people💣
November 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Today, EXTINCTION REBELLION TURNS 7 YEARS OLD

💚 Love & rage
October 31, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Hurricane Melissa’s historic journey to becoming one of the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded on Earth.

A storm we won't forget anytime soon.
October 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The fact that we went nearly 20 years without a sub-900 mb Atlantic hurricane and now we’ve had two in just the last two seasons.
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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NOAA aerial imagery is coming in. Hurricane Melissa literally turned western Jamaica from green to brown. Vegetation damage is immense — recovery will take years.
November 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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“For any of the defendants to be convicted, you have to be sure
not just that they committed the elements of the offence
but you also have to be sure that a conviction … would be a proportionate interference with their human rights to express their opinions & protest against government inaction”
Three Just Stop Oil activists cleared over Stonehenge protest
Trio argued orange powder protest day before 2024 solstice was justified because of focus on climate emergency
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🛢️GLOBAL DAY OF CLIMATE ACTION 🛢️

Saturday 15 Nov
12-2 Cornmarket, Oxford

🛢️World-wide campaign to raise awareness of critical failures to cut fossil fuel emissions

Join us!
🎶singing, drumming, leafletting & talking to people
🛢️UK Government must stop fossil fuel production

@stopcambo.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 PM
OUTREACH DAY OXFORD!

When?
Saturday 1 November

What?
An outreach stall & leafletting

Where?
Cornmarket, Oxford

⏰ 12-2pm

Why?
to alert people about the next COP in Belem, Brazil
(10-21 November)

& to encourage writing to MPs about the necessity of taking action for the Climate in the UK
October 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Our addiction to #fossilfuels causes toxic air #pollution, #wildfires and the spread of #diseases such as dengue fever, with millions of people dying each year due to the failure to tackle global heating. And that's at just 1.5°...

#ClimateEmergency

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rising heat kills one person a minute worldwide, major report reveals
Biggest analysis of its kind finds millions are dying each year because of failure to tackle climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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This summer, Baroness @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social & I were invited to join a Durham Union debate arguing the proposition that we ought "Prioritise Environment Over the Economy"

Making the case against were the Deputy Leader of the Opposition & Reform's only London AM

I'm glad to say our side won
This House Would Prioritise Environment Over the Economy | Durham Union
YouTube video by Durham Union
youtu.be
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM