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WOW!!! The British Columbia Teachers Federation S

WOW!!!
The British Columbia Teachers Federation Signed!?
Read full press release, all information and all signatories
LINK IN OUR BIO

The following is a sample of info and a few quotes from @myseatosky Call-to-Action on their website.

Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ territories (VANCOUVER, BC) — In the wake of last summer’s deadly heatwave and unprecedented fires, today, nearly 200 organizations representing well over one million British Columbians – a diverse network of environmental, Indigenous, labour, health, business, faith, and youth groups – joined in a call to the BC government to fundamentally reboot its CleanBC plan and implement a genuine and transformative climate emergency plan.

Their open letter – “An Urgent Call to the BC Government to Confront the Climate Emergency” – calls on the government to demonstrate the necessary leadership and immediately undertake 10 bold emergency actions. “Simply put, CleanBC does not sufficiently address the severity of the climate crisis,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. “The allowances for dirty emissions from the fossil fuel sector and forestry will increase the deadly and devastating impacts that communities across the province and the world are experiencing, and are not going to help us pay for a just transition to a clean economy. The Province must fully accept that they need to come up with an alternative economy because we aren’t going to achieve a clean BC with dirty fossil fuels.”

“Emergencies require responses that look, sound and feel to the public like genuine emergency plans,” said Seth Klein team lead with the Climate Emergency Unit. “The current BC approach doesn’t do that. It is lacking in ambition, urgency and coherence. The 10 actions in this open letter would constitute a real crisis response.”

#BCTFDivestNow
#ClimateJustice
#EnvironmentalJustice
#HumanRights
#EthicalInvestments

🌍 We might not believe it. But this is real. Le

🌍 We might not believe it. But this is real. Let’s help make it stop….

REPOST • @parentsforfuture_uk & @onlyoneworld19

Shell has announced the highest profits in 115 years - a mere $39.9 Billion. Oh and paid zero windfall tax and no tax at all in the UK for 5 years.

The oil and gas giants are literally raking in billions in ‘record profits’ while millions of people are pushed into poverty.

Shell’s profits alone would be enough to give every nurse and teacher in the UK a pay rise in line with inflation. But our leaders choose zero tax and incentives to encourage more oil and gas drilling. #MakeShellPay

Our dependence on fossil fuels is the cause of this energy crisis and it has to stop!

The oil and gas giants should have started too #Decarbonise in the 80s. We can’t afford to wait any longer for them to do the right thing - for our pockets or the planet.

Shell, Exxon, BP, Equinor - it’s time to #DECARBONISENOW !

‼️How to get involved:

👋 Join one of the @ParentsForFutureUK or @StopCambo meet and greets and get involved
✍️ Sign the petition in our bio to #StopRosebank
📢 Spread the word

Beautiful animation: @chrissy_hazel_holmes
Sticker gifs: @tolmeia

#NoNewOil #ClimateJustice #LookOutForEachOther #StandWithStrikers #ParentsForFuture #Act4OurKids #CostOfLivingScandal #Community #ActNow #NoPlanetB #KeepItInTheGround #TeacherStrike

🌲🌎🌲🌎🌲🌎🌲🌎

Let’s help make this stop! Support British Columbia, Canada teachers to divest from fossil fuels from our pension portfolio!

SIGN OUR PETITION- LINK IN BIO🙏🏾🌎

#BCTFDIVESTNOW!

Canadian Natural Resources Limited $106, 191, 750

Canadian Natural Resources Limited
$106, 191, 750

TC energy
$81,104,900

Enbridge, Inc.
$43,096,040

Cenovus Energy Inc.
$36,619,870

Petróleo Brasilerio SA- Petrobras
“We will prioritize oil, exploration, and production projects in Brazil, with an emphasis on deep waters”
$33,668,110

Pembina Pipeline Corporation
$33,419,300

Suncor Energy, Inc.
$25,677,550

Reliance Industries Limited
$21,381,550

Exxon. Mobile corporation.
$19,967,450

Teck Resources Limited
$19,911,960

Chevron Corporation
$10,850,980

RBC - one of the worst loss of your funding banks
$154,751,700

And the list goes on….

These portions are only 17.9% of the total amount that BCI invests with 11 pooled public pensions. So the numbers are much higher… Our pension manager is a Monster fossil fuel company themselves. They have no interest in divesting from fossil fuels. And as our pension board trustees have a lovely working relationship with BCI it’s going to take us, teachers standing up and fighting for this. Fighting for the future of the children of the world and of life for humans on this planet.

But it is possible, and we must do it.

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#ClimateJustice
#OurTimeIsNow
#TeachersUnited
#GlobalUnity

Teachers have been working for over a decade to di

Teachers have been working for over a decade to divest from fossil fuels from our pension.
At the 2022, AGM teachers voted for fossil fuel divestment from our pension.

@bcteachersfederation, the motion that was passed, asked for our union executive to lobby our pension board trustees to begin divestment from fossil fuels.

You sent 1 letter.

When teachers asked to see the letter, you refused to show it to them.

President Clint Johnston, you’ve been dismissive of the motion passed at our last AGM and elusive on accountability. You work for us teachers. Lobbying equals more than a politely worded letter.
#Shame

#BCTFDIVESTNOW and let’s be #ClimateAction and climate justice leaders!

Divestment remains one of the most powerful ways t

Divestment remains one of the most powerful ways to transition off life-killing poisonous fossil fuels. And it can be done!

Teachers in in British Columbia do not want to fund fossil fuels. The science is clear @ipcc.

@bctfederation it was your job on the executive level to lobby our pension board trustees to begin divestment from fossil fuels. You sent 1 letter. And when we asked to see the letter you refused to show it to us.

It’s time for transparency, accountability and action.

Our life-giving earth systems are collapsing, people and animals are suffering and dying…..fossil fuel assets will soon become stranded…#BCTFDIVESTNOW.

#https://fossilfreeca.org/bill-announced-to-divest-california-public-pensions-from-oil-and-gas/

@bcteachersfederation, teachers in British Columbi

@bcteachersfederation, teachers in British Columbia have been working to divest from fossil fuels for over a decade. Last year at the AGM teachers voted overwhelmingly to divest from fossil fuels. It was the union executives job to lobby our pension board to begin divestment. One letter was sent.… That’s not lobbying.

Teachers care about their students and the children of the world and eco-anxiety is just one example of why we need to get a fossil fuels. #BCTFDIVESTNOW.

Could eco-anxiety transform the field of psychology?

Nowadays, the threat of eco-distress—a term medical professionals use to describe the wide range of emotions people feel about the climate crisis—has become undeniable. As more people across the world are struggling with how to cope, mental health services are trying to keep up.

With climate change—and the many systemic issues that exacerbate it—mental health practitioners are having to re-evaluate their field at large. Taking action may not only look like doing what’s best for ourselves but challenging the systems that made us feel that way in the first place.

For The Frontline, @melissa_godin talks with the @climate.psychology.alliance about addressing eco-distress in our current mental health paradigm. Full story at the link in our bio.

Design by @tessaforrest

Dr. Heather Short has been teaching geology, earth

Dr. Heather Short has been teaching geology, earth system science and climate science for 25 years focussing on the present human caused climate and ecological crisis for off over the past 15 years. She designed and taught the only climate science course at the QC college system.

She became frustrated by the dissonance of teaching young people about the climate emergency in the context of a world that is still largely in denial about the urgency, with which we need to act on to mitigate it, that she resigned from her tenured position as an act of conscientious objection to educational business as usual with a ‘green’ twist. - look her up she wrote an article for CBC.

Dr. Short has created a Climate Literacy course, and she is endeavouring to educate the “adults in the room” – those of us who have the political and economic agency to take meaningful action to avoid the worst consequences of climate breakdown.

Like any other literacy, as inhabitants on this earth, we must become climate literate. We all must understand the science, the language and what we must do to mitigate the worst affects of climate catastrophe. Climate literacy is also important so we are able to judge whether the “solutions“ offered us are appropriate.

The climate, an ecological, crisis and emergencies are the biggest existentialism threats to human civilization and the natural world that we have ever faced. This requires immediate and collective action to give us any kind of chance at a liveable world in the coming decades.

It is absolutely imperative, that every citizen in a democracy, understand the scale and urgency of the actions that need to be taken.

All of the information I have written here has come straight from Dr. Short’s website.

The link to Dr. Short’s website and her
Climate + Change course is in our bio.

‘Hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act.’

- Hannah Arendt

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateJustice
#ClimateAction @bcteachersfederation

REPOST•@stand.earth Public pension dollars are

REPOST•@stand.earth Public pension dollars are being used to bankroll the fossil fuel industry. It’s time for pensions to divest from fossil fuels and stop financing the climate crisis. Thank you to our partners @divestoregon for this powerful video.
#PensionsforPeople

In 2022 the British Columbia Teachers Federation pension fund invested $582,389,190 million in fossil fuel companies, financial institutions and infrastructure.

This is absolutely unacceptable. Mass extinction has begun and ecosystems are collapsing.

Teachers voted for divestment from fossil fuels from our pension and the executives from our @bctfederation is responsible for lobbying our pension board to begin the divestment process…. So far they have sent one letter…
#BCTFDIVESTNOW

Educators are agents for change:
Let’s be #ClimateAction Leaders!

‘THIS IS A PLANETARY CRISIS!!” says Director o

‘THIS IS A PLANETARY CRISIS!!” says Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Johan Rockström. Watch session from #wef23 @worldeconomicforum

“Transformative and systemic change in all aspects of society” - @ipcc

So we must immediately begin transition off of fossil fuels and change how we are using the land, with agriculture and stop all animal factory farming. We have to stop with the pesticides and use already known ways of farming and managing crop success by nurturing healthy soil etc.
Daily, forests are decimated and degraded everywhere for logging and mass animal agriculture. There are other options rather than clearcutting forests and definitely no more clear cutting old-growth forests and ancient Mother trees. The ocean is in dying!! We have to stop mass trawler fishing and clean the ocean up from all the pollution in plastic and garbage poisoning it.

Humans, we must stop cutting, killing, and poisoning everything in Nature on land and in water so we can continue living the way we have been and have the stuff that we want and feel we need to live our lives. -wealth must be distributed among all and we should have no billionaires and millionaires …def not in control of our food systems, energy systems and communication systems, etc.

We have to envision a new way of living an existing on this planet, that is in balance with nature, equitable and fair to all living beings.

Look folks, you you need to accept that radical change is coming whether you want it or not. Better that as an organized human global society we can make decisions to mitigate the worst effects of climate chaos, so we still have a liveable planet.

Humans have made it this far because we have the ability to adapt.

We must all commit to being part of this change by getting into an emergency mode right now! And then move into regeneration mode afterwards.

We must unite on mass to apply pressure on governments to make bold decisions needed to make use of this very small window of opportunity.

#PlanetaryCrisis
#GlobalCitizensUnite #Courage REPOST • @worldeconomicforum

Repost from @worldeconomicforum • ‘It’s time

Repost from @worldeconomicforum
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‘It’s time to forge the best ways to cooperation in our fragmented worlds, to adopt multilateral solutions, to bring trust to Earth,’ says UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres.

Watch the full session from #wef23 by tapping on the link in our bio.

And the British Columbia Teachers Federation pensi

And the British Columbia Teachers Federation pension fund invested $154,351,700 in 2022 with RBC and we are still invested! The bottom line here is that teachers money is funding ecological collapse of earths ecosystems. We want to divest #BCTFDIVESTNOW.

REPOST @stand.earth

New report by Reclaim Finance and 13 NGOs shows that since joining Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), financial institutions have continued pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the companies developing fossil fuels.

Some sample salaries from the company who is inves

Some sample salaries from the company who is investing British Columbia teacher’s pension money under the direction of our @bcteachersfederation Pension Board.

The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)

BCI invests billions of dollars in fossil fuels. Despite its claim to manage climate risk and invest in climate solutions, BCI continues to invest BILLIONS of dollars in the oil, gas, coal and pipeline companies and infrastructure that have caused and continue fueling the climate crisis.

*Research here completed by ShiftAction @shiftyourpension Website:
https://www.shiftaction.ca/mission.
Link🔗 in our Bio

BCI is a #fossilfuel company. They are even invested in fossil fuel companies that are listed in our BCTF pension portfolio...

At the 2022 AGM teachers voted on a motion to divest from fossil fuels from our Pension Funds
for which our money contributed to $582,389,190 million in the past year.

Quite a responsible action given fossil fuels is causing the climate crisis, ecological collapse and mass extinction. I might add here the fossil fuel era is coming to an end, the more intense, the climate crisis becomes the more the world will become, forced to get off fossil fuels-leaving those assets stranded anyways.

Can you imagine if teachers used $582,389,190 million to invest in sustainable, low energy, restorative, regenerative companies that are going to transition us into a better and liveable future?

That’s why the climate crisis is such a monumental task because everybody seems to be sticking to the status quo maintaining what we’ve always been doing… decades invested in fossil fuels.
This needs to change now!

@bcteachersfederation let’s be #ClimateLeaders and instruct our BCTF Pension Board to begin divestment,

#BCTFdivestNow

ONE HUMANITY: In a world fragmented by fundam

ONE HUMANITY:

In a world fragmented by fundamentalism, artificial intelligence, and the greed of the 1%, we need to respond with a renewed paradigm.A paradigm that is raised on the pillars of nonviolence, peace, and harmony with the earth.

Dr. Vandana Shiva reminds us of our collective humanity, which is one with the planet and with each other. As one humanity we are connected through love, and compassion, not hatred and violence. As one Earth Family, we have an ecological responsibility to replace greed, consumerism, and competition as objectives of human life. This is essential and possible. We can do it. Let’s start now.

#ONEHUMANITYVS1% #VANDANASHIVA #EARTHFAMILY #NONVIOLENCE #VANDANASHIVAMOVIE

@bcteachersfederation let’s be #ClimateAction leaders. We need to begin divestment from fossil fuels #now

@worldeconomicforum has stated there are four very pressing long-term risks /crisis that are coming over the next decade related to our collective human decisions.…

1. Failure to mitigate climate change.

2. Failure to adapt to climate change.

3. Extreme weather events.

4. The threat of biodiversity collapse.

#BCTFDIVESTNOW

REPOST @vandanashivamovie

In 2012 TC ENERGY was selected by LNG Canada, to d

In 2012 TC ENERGY was selected by LNG Canada, to design, build, own and operate Coastal GasLink.

The British Columbia Teachers Federation (BCTF) Pension Board of Trustees uses the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) to invest and manage their assets.

Included in the $582,389,190 million, the British Columbia Teachers Pension is invested in fossil fuels, we are invested in TC ENERGY for $81,104,900 million dollars.

Teachers voted for divestment from fossil fuels from our pension #BCTFDIVESTNOW

REPOST @davidsuzukifdn Wet’suwet’en officials have confirmed Coastal Gas Link has dug up gravel beds and drove heavy equipment back and forth across salmon spawning habitat violating Wet’suwet’en and Canadian laws.

Work on pipeline river crossings needs to stop immediately. Link to press release in bio

#coastalgaslink #bcpoli #LNG #salmon #biodiversity #pipeline

Repost from @jessicakleczka • 🌍 Last year I v

Repost from @jessicakleczka
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🌍 Last year I visited a number of schools and universities teaching about how to cope with climate anxiety, and a common misconception among young people is that there’s something ‘wrong’ with them - which couldn’t be further from the truth.

Climate anxiety is normal. It’s a healthy response to the planetary crisis we are facing, and can even be good for the planet as it increases pro-environmental behaviour and people’s level of activism. But this depends largely on where you live, what is accessible to you, and the level of information you’re exposed to.

This is why climate education is so important. While it can be difficult to face the truth of how much we’ve harmed our planet, leaning into those emotions, honouring them and putting them into action can make a huge difference.

It’s also so important to recognise that climate anxiety is not a western phenomenon. People around the world have been experiencing mental health issues as the result of extreme weather events for decades, but have been left out of media narratives and face barriers to engaging in climate action - from limited resources to anti-protest laws which make activism unsafe for many.

If you’re struggling with climate anxiety, the @climate.psychology.alliance have some really good resources and offer a limited number of free therapy sessions to activists. Please seek professional help if you feel like you can’t cope with climate anxiety - personally I’m starting therapy this year to deal with the pressure of being a full-time climate campaigner, and there is absolutely no shame in this 💚

How do you deal with climate anxiety?

☕️ If you want to support my work, please consider buying me a coffee through the link in my bio! ✨

#ClimateCrisis #MentalHealth #ClimateAnxiety #Ecoanxiety #PsychologistsOfIG #MentalHealthAwareness #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #SustainableLiving #ResearchPaper
#bctfdivestnow

Repost from @tzeporahberman • Is fossil expansio

Repost from @tzeporahberman
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Is fossil expansion a prerequisite to a Just Transition?

Short answer: no. The science shows us that we cannot continue to grow fossil fuel production and keep to our Paris Agreement.

Thank you @nytimesevents for hosting us at COP27 for a big debate on decarbonization.
#bctfdivestnow

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia I

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests funds pooled from 11 pensions including the British Columbia Teachers Federation. The BCTF Pension contributes 17.9% of this pooled amount invested in the total portfolio.

This means that the British Columbia Teachers Pension contributes 17.9% of the total $204,580,000 Million in fossil fuel company, CENOVUS ENERGY INC. which amounts to $36,619,820 Million Bucks.

It also means - in plain language - money teachers earn is propping up the fossil fuel industry by the billions$$$… which is literally killing life on Earth as we know it, causing mass extinction, funding continued colonial atrocities, violence against Indigenous people, man camps and land theft of Indigenous territories.

Teachers in British Columbia are unwillingly funding continued colonial oppression and violence and the ecological breakdown of Earths ecosystems, climate chaos and mass extinction.

And we do not want to do that.

Teachers in British Columbia overwhelmingly passed a motion at the 2022 AGM for our union executives-including our new BCTF president Clint Johnson - to lobby our pension board trustees to begin divestment from fossil fuels.

We have been told they sent one letter. That is not lobbying.

Please sign our letter urging the @bcteachersfederation to begin this
process - LINK IN BIO

It is the will of our members to divest.
This is our #Union.

Let’s be #ClimateAction and #ClimateJustice Leaders and begin #DivestmentFromFossilFuels

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#ActOnClimate
#ClimateJustice
#ClimateEmergency
#It’sOurTime

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia I

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests funds pooled from 11 pensions including the British Columbia Teachers Federation. The BCTF Pension contributes 17.9% of this pooled amount invested in the total portfolio.

This means that the British Columbia Teachers Pension contributes 17.9% of the total $111,240,000 Million in fossil fuel company, TECK RESOURCES LTD. which amounts to $19,911,960 Million Bucks.

It also means - in plain language - money teachers earn is propping up the fossil fuel industry by the billions$$$… which is literally killing life on Earth as we know it, causing mass extinction, funding continued colonial atrocities, violence against Indigenous people, man camps and land theft of Indigenous territories.

Teachers in British Columbia are unwillingly funding continued colonial oppression and violence and the ecological breakdown of Earths ecosystems, climate chaos and mass extinction.

And we do not want to do that.

Teachers in British Columbia overwhelmingly passed a motion at the 2022 AGM for our union executives-including our new BCTF president Clint Johnson - to lobby our pension board trustees to begin divestment from fossil fuels.

We have been told they sent one letter.

Please sign our letter urging the @bcteachersfederation to begin this
process - LINK IN BIO

It is the will of our members to divest.
This is our #Union.

Let’s be #ClimateAction and #ClimateJustice Leaders and begin #DivestmentFromFossilFuels

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#ActOnClimate
#ClimateJustice
#ClimateEmergency
#It’sOurTime

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia I

The BCTF Pension investors, The British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI) invests funds pooled from 11 pensions including the British Columbia Teachers Federation. The BCTF Pension contributes 17.9% of this pooled amount invested in the total portfolio.

This means that the British Columbia Teachers Pension contributes 17.9% of the total $186,700,000 million in fossil fuel company, PEMBINA PIPELINE which is $33,668,110 million bucks.

It also means - in plain language - money teachers earn is propping up the fossil fuel industry by the billions$$$… which is literally killing life on Earth as we know it, causing mass extinction, funding continued colonial atrocities, violence against Indigenous people, man camps and land theft of Indigenous territories.

Teachers in British Columbia are unwillingly funding continued colonial oppression and violence and the ecological breakdown of Earths ecosystems, climate chaos and mass extinction.

And we do not want to do that.

Teachers in British Columbia overwhelmingly passed a motion at the 2022 AGM for our union executives, including our new BCTF president Clint Johnson, to lobby our pension board trustees to begin divestment from fossil fuels.

We have been told they sent one letter.

Please sign our letter urging the @bcteachersfederation to begin this process - LINK IN BIO

It is the will of our members.
This is our #Union.

Let’s be #ClimateAction and #ClimateJustice Leaders and begin #DivestmentFromFossilFuels

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#ActOnClimate
#ClimateEmergency
#It’sOurTime

“It’s heartbreaking & infuriating. We are sup

“It’s heartbreaking & infuriating.
We are supporting both ecocide genocide with our pension investments. We fund RBC which bankrolls both Coastal GasLink & TransMountain Pipeline, for example. Let’s invest in the future of our next generation instead!”

@bcteachersfederation At the most recent AGM, teachers in British Columbia passed a motion overwhelmingly to divest from fossil fuels from our pension portfolio and to reinvest In sustainable, low energy and ethical companies that do not harm people, animals, and ecosystems; the planet.

The science is clear @ipcc

And research indicates that by continuing to invest in fossil fuels each member has lost about $18,000. Fossil fuel investments will become stranded assets.

The responsible #ClimateAction and fiduciary responsible action to take it’s to do whatever we can to begin #divestment.

#BCTFDIVESTNOW
#LandBack
#JustTransition
#ClimateActionNow

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