Saturday, January 26, 2019

Some Tweets from Robert F. Kennedy Jr


  • With the Southwest locked in a 19-year & making the region increasingly drier, water managers & users along the are facing a troubling question: Are we in a new, more arid era when there will never be enough water?
  • RT this piece on the letter I signed along with relatives of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. & Malcolm X, & 60 others calling for a new congressional investigation into the assassinations of my uncle, my father, Dr. King & Malcolm X.
  • I'm proud to report just won a major victory! As oilmen and billionaire polluters who run the White House clear the road to Armageddon, Waterkeepers are still winning momentous victories in our local communities.
  • A new scientific study shows that if wreaks havoc on the Earth's groundwater, it would present an environmental "time bomb" with global consequences. And we might not know until it's too late.
  •   Retweeted
    is helping shift Americans' thinking on . Nearly half of Americans find the evidence on climate science more convincing than they did five years ago.
  • It’s been a bad week for ice. Researchers announced that the Eastern Ice Shelf is actually melting alarmingly fast. And, a new study found southwest is dumping more meltwater into the than any other region of the icy island.
  • . earns 2019 Trial Team of Year Award for case! “We were finally able to show the jury the secret, internal Monsanto documents proving that Monsanto has known for decades that glyphosate & specifically could cause ."
  • Sir David Attenborough has warned that “the Garden of Eden is no more,” as he urged political and business leaders from around the world to make a renewed push to tackle before the damage is irreparable.
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    "King understood before any of our scholar papers, and his influence is seen in the current justice movement."
  • This documentary is an alarming example of the power of the animal agriculture industry, the confluence of interests between industry and law enforcement, and the appalling treatment of animals in industrial agricultural production.
  • Sunday marked the two year-anniversary of President Donald taking office. Here's a list of some of the rollbacks & new rules around and the environment that the Trump administration has implemented since taking office.
  • On Jan. 17, 1961, outgoing President Dwight Eisenhower gave the most important speech of his lifetime, warning his fellow citizens that the greatest threat to our democracy and our values was not a foreign foe, but ...