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3 years

The only good thing to come out of COP26 is that at least we now know with absolute certainty that our current leadership/system is utterly incapable of meaningfully addressing the climate and ecological emergency.

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What I'm baffled about as regarding the climate crisis, is the total refusal to acknowledge, that what we are experiencing now, is just a taster of what is going to come. That it is going to get far worse, and then keep on getting worse. 1/

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3 years

I'm starting to get the impression of COP26 as a contrived stitch up. Where world leaders get to present their inadequate action as fixing the problem. This really is dangerous stuff. You see I remember the 1992 Rio Earth Summit well. 🧵

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2 years

I'm confused about something. What's all this economic growth and development about if it means we're heading for an unlivable world and civilization collapse? Or is it a question I'm not allowed to ask?

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1 year

Nothing better illustrates what a malignant and dishonest activity climate crisis denial is, and how climate crisis denying cheerleaders, such as Bjorn Lomborg, are totally disingenuous and dishonest. I'm going to dismantle this malignant propaganda, piece by piece. 1/🧵

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Stephen Barlow

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2 years

I'm going to propose a very provocative, but I believe true proposition. That is, we're all living in a cult, and have all been living in a cult for many generations. For so long, it has long been forgotten that things weren't always like that. 1/🧵

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3 years

We need to have a serious discussion about the climate and ecological emergency. I don't usually watch the TV but I've been watching it for nearly 2 weeks whilst house sitting. It's now crystal clear that there is mass misunderstanding about this crisis.

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2 years

This is a plea for all climate activists, especially young activists, to support rising star UK distance runner, Innes FitzGerald, who broke the Under 17 UK 3000m record. But is refusing to fly to the World Cross Country Championships in Australia. 1/2

Innes FitzGerald's refusal to fly divides opinion - AW

Young British distance runner puts environment ahead of athletics ambition but it won't stop her making her mark in the sport

athleticsweekly.com

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Stephen Barlow

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9 months

This phenomenon, is very worrying. We know for certain, that a lot of these billionaires or very rich people are building them. These people have massive influence in our societies, yet this suggests, they are not confidence, in our civilization persisting. 1/🧵

Pop Crave

@PopCrave

9 months

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building a massive $100 million compound in Hawaii with an underground bunker, escape hatch, and a “blast-resistant door.” The 5,000-square-foot underground bunker will be self-sufficient with its own energy, food, and water supply, @WIRED reports.

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7 months

This has triggered me to write a thread, I've been meaning to write for some time. We're in a dire climate and ecological emergency, which is going to lead to the collapse of our civilization unless we urgently change direction, and hardly anyone realizes the seriousness. 1/🧵

Matthew Todd 🌏🔥

@MrMatthewTodd

7 months

Sooner or later we’re going to have to face the reality that conservatism and capitalism is killing us. It’s not a debate. It’s a fact. It’s literally happening right now in front of our eyes. If you can’t see it you either don’t understand it, or you are intentionally lying to

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5 months

What terrifies the hell out of me about this unprecedented high rainfall over the last 18 months, and the huge impacts on British agriculture. Is the total denial, and the complete lack of joined up thinking. This is what lay behind my recent posts on this. 1/🧵

Matthew Todd 🌏🔥

@MrMatthewTodd

5 months

Official UK climate and agriculture policy : Carry on ignoring this. It won’t be true if you pretend it isn’t.

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2 years

This is media gaslighting. If students are suffering from "eco/climate-anxiety", it's not because there is anything wrong with these students, but because we live in an insane world where our leadership is refusing to address the crisis. 1/🧵

Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers

The BBC gets an exclusive look at a new project to help students deal with rising climate anxiety.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

Why isn't this on the @BBC , the @guardian and @Channel4News etc? This is after all, a leading climate scientist @KevinClimate , laying out the reality of the climate crisis, our failure to address it, and what it means. 1/5

Michael Flammer #KlimaVor8

@Jumpsteady

1 year

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words: »We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.« 🧵1/8

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4 months

I find myself in a quite frankly surreal position, tweeting about the possible collapse of our civilization, and the insanity of our leadership, in failing to address the climate and ecological crisis. I'm no ideologue, and just someone fascinated by the natural world. 1/🧵

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Stephen Barlow

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6 years

It looks like @GretaThunberg and the #ClimateStrike are having some real world effects already.

EU's Juncker proposes billions of spending on climate change after a 16-year-old's speech

The European Commission President wants to spend big on climate action.

www.cnbc.com

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3 years

Wishing @GretaThunberg a happy birthday. No other person has successfully done more to raise the profile of the climate and ecological crisis, and to speak truth to power.

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1 year

This is the most poignant and profound quote, of massive relevance to today's situation, even if it was from a book published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold. The seminal environmentalist work. Please share widely. 1/2

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7 months

All people with a moral compass need to stand with @GretaThunberg . Making peaceful protest illegal, is corrupt and morally bankrupt. It is a fascist type action.

Greta Thunberg arrives at court for trial over oil protest | ITV News

The 21-year-old, from Sweden, was arrested during a demonstration near the InterContinental Hotel in Mayfair last year. | ITV News London

www.itv.com

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Stephen Barlow

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5 years

I fully endorse this article and argument by @GeorgeMonbiot . This is not ideological, it is not Marxist. It is simply that in a finite system, in a sustainable society and economy, you cannot have unlimited personal wealth. It should be bleeding obvious.

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10 months

I think one of the big stories at the moment, not being properly dealt with is the testimony of the leading scientists at the COVID Inquiry, and their feelings that the senior politicians, completely failed to understand the science. This is of massive relevance to climate. 1/🧵

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3 months

Those aware of the climate and ecological crisis, who are scientifically informed, are being made to feel like they have some weird cult like belief, despite their whole outlook, being based on the best possible science, available to humanity. 1/🧵

Humanity’s survival is still within our grasp – just. But only if we take these radical steps |...

Reduce emissions, build resilience, repair ecosystems, remove greenhouse gases: these are the four Rs that can save us, says David King, chair of the global Climate Crisis Advisory Group

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Barlow

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4 years

1) In 2008 I observed something extraordinary, which totally changed my perception of all life. I observed hoverflies carefully and deliberately opening up the anthers of a flower and scooping the pollens grains out of the anthers to their mouthparts with their front feet.

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1 year

I'd like to clarify something about my far more assertive and indeed aggressive stance on the ecological crisis. This isn't because I am some sort of extreme radical. I have been arguing about this, since I was a boy, over 50 years ago. I have seen all this unfold. 1/🧵

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9 months

I want to contrast governments' policy and attitude towards smoking and climate change. To stop people smoking, governments used full fear. You'll die of lung cancer. Showed people photos of diseased lungs of smokers, and even put them on cigarette packets. 1/🧵

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8 months

Neoliberalism is the problem at the heart of the climate and ecological emergency. It involves extreme capitalism, and an obsession with economic growth, selfishness and competition, and a lack of empathy and compassion. 1/🧵

Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems

Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?

www.theguardian.com

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11 months

I want to endorse, and amplify what @GretaThunberg said in this speech. Her analysis is perfect. We have entered a new phase of the climate crisis, where it is now utterly certain, that our leadership has betrayed us and is gaslighting us. 1/

Henry Riley

@HenryRiley1

11 months

🚨 Greta Thunberg has been speaking at a Fossil Free London press conference by Hyde Park She says “The elites have no intention of transition. We have to take direct action. We have to reclaim the power and that is what we are doing today. We have to kick oily money out” @LBC

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4 months

I think the biggest single problem we face at the moment, is this false view promoted by mainstream politicians and parties, the media, mainstream economists, that Business as Usual BaU, can persist well into the future. It can't, it's physically impossible. 1/🧵

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4 years

1) This illustrates the whole climate and ecological emergency in a nutshell. The world is heading towards a climate catastrophe, but the most obvious ways to reduce our carbon emissions are being ignored, because billionaires can't profit from the solutions.

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

4 years

Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology

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Stephen Barlow

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9 months

For the last 31 years, concerned people, scientists, activists, NGOs, have utterly wasted their time, telling our political leadership to act on the climate and ecological emergency. It's now clear with hindsight, they had no intention of taking action. 1/🧵

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Stephen Barlow

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2 years

@GretaThunberg What you did was incredible. I've been an environmentalist for over 50 years, starting the same age as yourself. I have never seen that sort of impact and inspiration before in that half century. You gave young people a voice and the confidence to speak out. Thank you.

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1 year

The recent extreme weather, temperature records, has led to a modicum of more discussion about the climate crisis, outside the usual scientists and activists focused on it. But it's left me seriously worried as to the lack of grasp, most people have of the world we live in. 1/🧵

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10 days

I was just involved in a brief discussion about the lack of novels, dealing with the climate crisis. I think this is part of a much bigger problem, in that there is a serious lack of vision about what the climate crisis, means for our future. 1/🧵

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3 months

This is it, and we ignore this at our peril. The real crisis, is a crisis of societal perception, and a sheer lack of understanding, of the situation we face. Especially amongst our leadership and the most influential people in our societies. A radically altered future. 1/🧵

Dr. William J. Ripple

@WilliamJRipple

3 months

We must abandon the flawed notion that the climate emergency is an isolated issue; global heating, though catastrophic, is merely one symptom of a profound environmental crisis of ecological overshoot. @ECOWARRIORSS

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9 months

I feel I must address a common misconception, that addressing the climate and ecological crisis, is about saving nature, saving Mother Earth. Actually, it is the complete opposite, it is about saving humanity, from the consequences of setting itself against nature. 1/🧵

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2 years

This situation is dire. For a long time I have been trying to get across that the biodiversity and ecological crisis is even more serious than the climate crisis on its own. What's more, it won't be fixed by climate solutions. 1/🧵

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2 years

The climate crisis is caused by ecological ignorance. In a world where almost no one knows what an ecosystem is, what the climate is, what their relationship with each other is, and how they sustain our lives - don't expect many people to know there's a crisis, an emergency.

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2 years

A real WTF moment this morning, an unwanted insight into just how insane our current system is, as sky filled with airliners. Like some high altitude air show. 1/

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1 year

OMG!!! NO, WE DO NOT NEED TO CREATE WEALTH! There is a full-blown climate and ecological emergency, created by the all out mindless pursuit of wealth. How can @Keir_Starmer be so blind to it? Either we get sustainable or our civilization dies. 1/🧵

Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’

Exclusive: Labour leader urges left to ‘care more about growth’ and rules out spending ‘vast sums of money’

www.theguardian.com

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9 months

An excellent article from George, which echoes what I have been saying for decades. In this thread, I want to explain the major way, the neoliberal doctrine, has totally corrupted our society, and created a demographic apart from the rest of society, quite deliberately. 1/🧵

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

9 months

Extreme wealth: if any other condition generated these symptoms, we would call it a mental illness. My column about why certain very rich people don't care about the living planet, or even, in some cases, their own children.

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2 months

I've been meaning to address this most crucial thing about the climate and ecological emergency, but I was not sure I could explain it right. I'm still not sure. It is about a way of thinking, of seeing things. When you see things properly, this is all that matters. 1/🧵

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2 years

I want to let people into a dirty secret. Why our governments have taken no effective action on the climate crisis for 31 years, and why we are hurtling to climate catastrophe/global suicide. It's why no major government wants to talk about ending fossil fuel burning. 1/🧵

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Stephen Barlow

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5 years

The Starling murmuration this evening over Sinker's Fields, Whixall. By this time vast numbers of Starlings had already gone down, and the numbers are just staggering. @ShropsWildlife @PinemartensUK @NE_WestMids @sosbirds @IoloWilliams2 @2peters @Jannerbirder @MarkAvery

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5 years

@AyoCaesar The claim that billionaires are being demonised or made into bogeymen, is a classic straw man argument, misrepresenting what is being said. It is really explaining the iniquity of the system which facilitates and allows this, not demonising them.

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Stephen Barlow

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5 years

@vanessa_vash @GretaThunberg I say this wasn't an accident. As someone who defends the young climate activists, especially Greta against malicious slurs one of the most common themes is that this movement is only for white privileged youth. This an egregious lie and this manipulation is playing to this meme.

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11 months

It is not humanity, that is destroying everything. I cannot blame people for mistakenly thinking this. Humanity was once part of nature. It is the mindset of a small minority of humanity, which thinks only of accumulating wealth and profit through economic growth. 1/3

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10 months

Almost no major politician I'm aware of, globally - admits that on current policy, we're on course for 3C or more warming this century. Nearly all engage in the fantasy and lie, that we are on course to Net Zero by 2050. 1/8

World facing ‘hellish’ 3C of climate heating, UN warns before Cop28

‘We must start setting records on cutting emissions,’ UN boss says after temperature records obliterated in 2023

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2 months

Some time, we need to have a conversation about "Manufactured Consent", because it is a huge factor in the climate and ecological crisis, where it is falsely implied, that humanity has consented to the business as usual system, driving us to global suicide. 1/🧵

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1 year

Sorry, but this is complete and utter delusional nonsense, and we are being gaslighted. Neither the increase of renewable energy, or increasing sales of electric cars, put us on course for Net Zero by 2050. Let me briefly explain. 1/🧵

‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief

IEA’s Fatih Birol says uptake of solar power and EVs is in line with net zero goal but rich countries must hasten their broader plans

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@SteB777

5 months

I often see climate activists, environmentalists and conservationists, express disappointment, that our species, humans are so destructive and uncaring. This is a fundamental thinking error, a myth. It's not our species, which is like this, but our modern culture. 1/🧵

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10 months

Should be the biggest news in the world. ‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’ 1/🧵

‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report

Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’

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9 months

COP28, has to be the turning point. I don't expect anything meaningful, from the official process. However, now we know what we're up against. The gloves must come off. 1/🧵

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1 year

I want to address the main absurdity, at the centre of the ecological and climate crisis. That is the apparent belief of most politicians, billionaires, CEOs and other powerful people, that there is the option of adapting and carrying on with business as usual. 1/🧵

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8 months

It's vital that people understand this thread, because it contains the solution to the climate and ecological crisis. It is the culmination of decades of research and thinking, but I don't know if I will manage to convey the meaning of what has been overlooked. I may fail. 1/🧵

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2 years

I think it is now crystal clear that modern politics is not fit for purpose. I see no serious attempt by mainstream parties or politicians, to actually address the climate or ecological emergency, or the cost of living crisis. Just same old, same old.

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4 years

1) Science denial is destroying our societies, our civilization. Various vested interests, usually right wing ideologues find various scientific facts and information contrary to their agenda, so through propaganda they are orchestrating the public into denying this science.

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5 years

Guess what, a study shows that the government's anti-science Badger cull is actually spreading bTB in cattle, not restricting it - exactly as the experts predicted before the Badge cull started. Note the NFU denial.

Badger culling may increase spread of tuberculosis, say researchers

Culls cause badgers to roam further, potentially worsening risk of disease in cattle

www.theguardian.com

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8 months

People have been so gaslighted and brainwashed by governments, corporations and the mainstream media, that even many supposed activists, mistakenly think the obstacle, is getting people, the public to accept climate action. This whole narrative is false. 1/

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@SteB777

3 months

I see an alarming lack of understanding of climate related food production supply problems in the forthcoming years. Our politicians and economists etc, seem to be asleep at the wheel. Food supply, is the bedrock of our societies. 1/

Eoin Llewellyn

@EoinLlewellyn

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Food protectionism is going to become state policy for many countries. A rise in drought, floods, certain insects and fungi,molds will continue to rise. Ireland has limited vertical hydroponics and is sleep walking into disaster

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9 months

As suspected, Sultan Al Jaber, is an actual climate crisis denier, who pretended to accept the science, to further his company's oil business. "Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels" 1/🧵

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

www.theguardian.com

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6 months

It's not just Europe that is totally unprepared for climate impacts, but the whole world. The whole problem is this idea, that climate impacts will only be a problem in the distant future, with large sea level rises etc. 1/🧵

Europe unprepared for rapidly growing climate risks, report finds

Dangers of wildfires, extreme weather and other factors outgrowing preparedness, European Environment Agency says

www.theguardian.com

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3 months

The false impression conveyed by the media and mainstream politicians, is that the climate/weather, will just shift to a different state, and then we can adapt to it. Yet, you can't easily adapt to a developing and changing climate, where much is unknown. 2/

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10 months

"Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66% ..." This is what I've been trying to point out. However, what's missing from these figures is responsibility and power, and the top 1% are far more culpable than it at first appears. 1/8

Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Every time I post a tweet, identifying politicians, governments, corporations, billionaires, and the 1%, being both the primary cause of the climate crisis, and those primarily responsible for obstructing action, I get people coming along, to tell me everyone is responsible. 1/🧵

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3 years

1) There seems to be almost complete ignorance of sustainability and ecology in our modern culture. When I say, our system will have to change, and those over-consuming will have to cut back, I get told, but people won't stand for that etc. It's a bizarre response.

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1 month

Is this the beginning of the end for right wing populism a.k.a. the extreme and far right? I have long predicted its eventual collapse, because it is predicated on lies, and lying, which can't be sustained over time, because the truth always comes out, eventually. 1/🧵

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3 years

Principally, the problem is that it is an ecological crisis, a sustainability crisis, and the climate crisis, although a critical part of it, is only a small part of the problem. The biodiversity part of the ecological crisis alone is at least as serious.

Loss of biodiversity is just as catastrophic as climate change | Robert Watson

Nature is being eroded at rates unprecedented in human history, says scientist Robert Watson

www.theguardian.com

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@SteB777

8 months

I want to explain what the climate crisis is, and what it isn't, in a definitive thread. This is because there seems to be a lot of confusion about what the climate crisis is. Often deniers will cleverly demand you cite a scientific paper, that refers to the climate crisis. 1/🧵

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3 years

There's this bizarre mistaken perception that it's just about electric cars, wind energy, heat pumps, insulating housing, and then we can carry on as normal. It is really difficult to know where to start with this profound misunderstanding.

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1 year

There is a massive problem with orchestrated climate crisis denial on Twitter since @elonmusk took over. Any climate tweet, about science, which gets a lot of views is now subject to attack by an orchestrated swarm of deniers. 1/🧵

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11 months

It's absolute insanity, that major countries and economies like the US are building massive new fossil fuel infrastructure, same with the UK, and then talking about Net Zero. They seem to think they can address the climate crisis, with false rhetoric. 1/4

‘Carbon mega bomb’: climate experts urge Biden to block gas export hub

Despite pressure from environmentalists to halt Louisiana construction, the US president touts gas exports to Europe

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

I see incredibly poor coverage in the media of the huge protest marches on the Global Day of Action of Climate Justice today. Only on social media am I getting a realistic impression on the size and scale of these marches.

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The cancelling of @GretaThunberg won't work. The right, like to bleat about cancel culture, but they are hypocrites and use cancelling all the time. The establishment set out to cancel Greta. In the long term, they won't succeed. 1/🧵

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2 years

However, our leaders, and the clique of wealthy and powerful people who manipulatively control society for their own ends, are managing to convince most of the public, that activists and scientists demanding action, are radicals with a hidden agenda. 6/

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2 years

Is the war against woke (being awake) - simply because the billionaires and mega corporations exploiting us and driving us towards climate and ecological catastrophe - want a public ignorant of what they are doing?

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@SteB777

5 years

@AyoCaesar The point being made is that there could be no billionaires in a fair system where lots of people were not ruthlessly and unfairly exploited for the benefit of a few. This is not merely an ideological point. This system is why we face a climate and ecological emergency.

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10 months

WTF? "The host of the UN Cop28 summit, the United Arab Emirates, planned to use climate meetings with other countries to promote deals for its national oil and gas companies, according to leaked documents."

Cop28 host UAE planned to promote oil deals during climate talks

Leaked briefing documents for meetings with governments contained ‘asks’ from state oil firm

www.theguardian.com

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@SteB777

9 months

The false claims of Sultan Al Jaber, the COP28 president, are a crisis of credibility for the COP talks and the UN. The UN and @antonioguterres must immediately, arrange a public debate between Sultan Al Jaber and leading climate scientists. 1/4🧵

Cop28 live: UAE climate chief’s comments ‘incredibly concerning’,

Climate analyst Bill Hare described Sultan Al Jaber’s dismissal of the need for a phaseout of fossil fuels as ‘verging on climate denial’

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The @guardian should be thoroughly ashamed for publishing this steaming pile of sophistry. It's why I regard it as having a troublesome position. Yes, it has better climate crisis coverage, but that is because the rest are dire, it's just less dire. 1/🧵

Yes, five years in jail is too harsh, but the Just Stop Oil Five shouldn’t have done it | Sonia...

The urgent needs of the road users they held up were ignored during this climate crusade

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3 years

@GeorgeMonbiot By insisting that Ian Blackford say Boris Johnson had "inadvertently misled the House" the Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle was in fact insisting that Ian Blackford lie to the House, and lie to the public. This is because Hoyle knew very well what Blackford was saying, was truthful. 1/2

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This morning, I woke up to a sudden realisation of what a weird system we live in, and how those at the top have been gaslighting us. I have been struggling all day, about whether I should write this, lest it mistakenly be seen as an attack on the rich, which it is not. 1/🧵

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People are rightly asking what is the solution to the ecological and climate crisis. What is the purpose of my highlighting how this crisis is driven by billionaires, the very rich and corporations, and their media. I will briefly explain. 1/🧵

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3 years

1) We need to talk about the way doomism is being used by certain climate scientists as a pejorative term for many climate activists. It's necessary to discuss this, because post COP26 this term is being widely abused and used against anyone questioning the efficacy of COP talks.

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In other words, we have a society, where powerful and wealthy people controlling our societies, and exploiting everyone else for their own ends, are preventing necessary action, to protect their own interests. 11/

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The fact, that the judge described the views of the @JustStop_Oil activists as "political", demonstrates, that it is the judge who has political views about the climate crisis, not the activists. The activists' views are based on scientific evidence, not politics. 1/🧵

Matthew Todd 🌏🔥

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Read this from Private Eye about the Just Stop Oil sentences. The justice system in this country is a farce.

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1 year

Last night, I blocked possibly hundreds of climate crisis deniers, under a Greta Thunberg tweet - just her regular Friday protest with a photo. The personal abuse was incredible. You have to remember, I've already blocked many thousands of these abusive right wing idiots. 1/6

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The reason I am picking on Lomborg, despite this meme being widespread, is because he is intelligent enough, and informed enough, to fully understand why he is being disingenuous, and why his argument is false, and propaganda of the most dishonest type. 2/

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1) Regardless of the outcome of the US elections, we need to have a hard deep think about what democracy means. We have developed a form of democracy, which allows rich liars to get power by force of lies and creating fear and hatred.

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I want to illustrate how the mainstream media, here the BBC, slyly smeared @GretaThunberg In this news report yesterday, they claimed Greta had said "slay", which of course, in English, means to kill. 1/🧵

'Slay' says Thunberg at airport expansion protest

Greta Thunberg marched with activists to protest against an airport expansion.

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Also, the article was not saying that humanity was going to end in 5 years, as the ridiculous lying climate crisis deniers pretend to believe. It was actually saying, we had 5 years to make big reductions in emissions, before it was too late to stop long term damage. 14/

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Solving the climate and ecological crisis, is not really about doing anything. It is far more about not doing things. Not over-consuming resources, being more frugal. Learning to be kind and compassionate, part of which means not being so selfish. 1/2

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It is my belief, confirmed by evidence, that the climate crisis, or rather the reason for it, is far simpler than most imagine. As I've often said, the climate crisis (really an overall ecological crisis) is different than anthropogenic climate change, if related to it. 1/🧵

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I want to commend @GeorgeMonbiot 's article, and it is a must read. It says something quite profound about our governance system, when dark money funded right wing think tanks, can essentially get their policy written into law, without the public ever been aware of it. 1/🧵

George Monbiot

@GeorgeMonbiot

7 months

In the UK and around the world, environmental defenders are being attacked with ever more extreme laws. Who designs these laws? Corporate lobbyists. Who demands they are imposed? The billionaire media. THIS IS NOT JUSTICE. This week's column. 🧵

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What's so worrying, is that these people are quite literally not only driving the climate and ecological crisis, but are blocking action, on preventing this turning into a global catastrophe. This says these people are bad actors. 3/

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse

Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences

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The climate crisis is beyond absurd. As I keep pointing out, the climate crisis is not another term for anthropogenic climate change. Rather the crisis, is caused by our governments saying they accept the science, and then doing nothing. 1/10

World stands on frontline of disaster at Cop28, says UN climate chief

Exclusive: Simon Stiell says leaders must ‘stop dawdling’ and act before crucial summit in Dubai

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3 years

The biggest failing of COP26, was the complete failure to recognise the climate and ecological crisis as the crisis it is, and the complete failure to openly acknowledge that current plans put our societies on a catastrophic course. @GretaThunberg @GeorgeMonbiot @ClimateHuman

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This argument, falls at the first hurdle, because even if Greta had erred, this is totally irrelevant and makes zero difference to the reality of climate change and the science behind it. This is because no science rests on what Greta says. So the whole argument is invalid. 5/

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I just want to write a quick thread about the absurdity of climate change denial. Where usually right wing ideologues, deny the reality of climate change, because it doesn't fit in with their ideological outlook. It is absurd, and irrational. 1/🧵

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Let me make a very simple observation on the UK Government's new prison overcrowding strategy. STOP LOCKING UP PEACEFUL CLIMATE ACTIVISTS, AND REPEAL THE STUPID OPPRESSIVE, NEW LAWS AND COURT STRATEGIES, SENDING THEM TO PRISON! 1/3

UK politics: probation chief questions if there is ‘enough time’ for early prisoner release plan –...

Justice secretary’s plan includes extra recruitment but head of service queries timings, with moves to bring forward releases starting in September

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This inability to acknowledge, that it is going to get much worse, and keep getting worse, that much is unknown, except it being far more adverse for us, can't be a limitation of language, because I have just said it. It's deliberate #gaslighting 3/

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Listening to the commentary of media pundits on COP26, makes me realise just how few people really grasp the climate and ecological crisis and the components of it.

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