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Freelance climate risk communication specialist New book: Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change.

Seaford, England

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Chris Shaw

1 year

What we talk about when we talk about climate change. A short(ish) thread. 1. What is presented as climate action is actually action intended to legitimise liberalism in the face of a catastrophe for which liberalism has no answers. Here's how it's done 1/10

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Chris Shaw

1 year

I often encounter the argument that once the climate crisis gets bad enough people will wake up and change. Nope.

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Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change |...

Many see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it, says author Christy Lefteri

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@OwenJones84 @katecmorrison @BorisJohnson Someone at @CCHQPress messed up and made the mistake of leaving @BorisJohnson alone and unsupervised with a journalist who was intent on doing his job.

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Not me. I left my climate change job last Monday to focus on pursuing the kind of work I feel is necessary, given it is now obvious that 'net zero' is not an agenda that can save us

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1 year

we learned officially on Friday that “climate breakdown has begun” how many of us will go to work tomorrow like everything is fine?

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Thousands fleeing forest fires in Greece, devastation in Zagreb, rivers of ice flowing down the streets in Italy. Who would be brave enough to say net zero by 2050/1.5c warming limit isn't going to save us?

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Never have I ever witnessed such a storm in Zagreb. It caused absolute chaos.. Some of the footage from it, it was insane.

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Never had such an engaged climate conversation at my local tennis club as I had today - real concern, anguish and acceptance that something is up. All for naught of course - the moral imperative, the political understanding and historical knowledge needed is totally absent.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

I took time off from climate Twitter to protect my sanity, I can't deal with the disconnect between evidence of impending catastrophe and the complacency of mainstream climate policy/ climate policy discourse. Away from Twitter I hardly ever encounter mention of climate change.

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Chris Shaw

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Both my sons are utterly fatalistic about climate change and feel there is nothing left to do but watch how it all unfolds. I'm trying to excite them about the electrified neo-liberalism that is on its way and will save us all, but I'm not really feeling it, tbf.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

Thing about nuclear power is nuclear technology requires management over thousands of years. I look around at the devastation caused through the short term mindset of liberal capitalism and think, this is just not that kind of society, it is like giving a kid a machine gun.

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4 years

Compare the outrage at a one day interruption to the delivery of newspapers and the indifference towards the unimaginable destruction and suffering of climate change that is now underway.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

It's time to let go of the old ways now. Time to say goodbye. Let's reorganise to ensure people are fed and housed, focus on the medical infrastructure. Then let's start rebuilding from there, smaller lives, end the industrialised war on nature and our pysches.

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"Much of the discourse around net zero seeks to replicate all the comforts of middle-class life—for the middle class. That it needs the working class to come on board and do their bit to achieve it is one of many hypocrisies of the net zero story."

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Liberal Blindspots | Tim Sahay

An interview with Chris Shaw on the class and the politics of climate.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Chris Shaw

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I don't enjoy working with children on #climatechange , it's too upsetting, eviscerating. I am working on climate change curriculum development (not in UK) and going through transcripts from classroom workshops, feel like crying to see how desperate kids are to change their future

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How do u answer your 20 year old son, the light of your life, in his last year of university, trying to think of his future when he says "Its like the end of the world isn't it?" I can't bring myself to say, don't worry, we've got #NetZero and that is going to make everything OK

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Chris Shaw

5 years

I'm not interested in "saving the planet", which is just code for bringing the whole of life under the control of technocratic elites. I am interested in building a kinder, slower, fairer way of living, which will hopefully allow the natural world to recover and thrive.

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1 year

We need a new vocabulary of climate and a new kind of state, rooted in the best, not the worst of human nature. The work begins by abandoning the mainstream imperialistic, corporate and woefully naive existing visions of our 2050 1.5C net zero future.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

Kind of struggling with wealthy white males from the global north promoting upbeat messages about 3C of warming. Seems very suspect to me.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

How is this bad news? Looks to me like the start of a promising and long overdue trend in decreasing levels of consumption. Surely our climate woke media should be celebrating this. BBC News - Worst year for retail in 25 years, says trade body

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Worst year for retail in 25 years, says trade body

Total sales fell last year for the first time since 1995, says the British Retail Consortium.

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Chris Shaw

2 years

Remove the words 'solve' and 'solution' from the climate change discourse. The climate science is clear, climate impacts are here for centuries to come. One might manage the pain and suffering of someone with an incurable condition. But you won't be curing them.

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5 years

I can't properly express the rage that overcomes me when my children tell me about the despair they feel about their future, their fatalism about mainstream politics and the impotence of a 2050 climate target.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

The disorientating schizophrenia of the mass media

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4 years

"The results clearly show that thousands of tons of methane are leaking from old drill holes on the North Sea floor every year."

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Chris Shaw

3 years

I would have thought a sophisticated, humane and advanced civilization would have a back-up plan ready in case the net zero strategy started to look like an ineffective and overly optimistic approach. But as far as I can make out, it's net zero or oblivion.

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Chris Shaw

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"Environmental science, guided by a false ideal of neutrality, aiming at a depoliticized notion of relevance that is blind to power inequities, and in pursuit of a technocratic understanding of sustainability... enables the continued exploitation and destruction of nature."

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Chris Shaw

4 years

20-25C warmer than it should be in the Arctic circle. Not for just one day, but relentless. I am sat opposite my 18 year old son, home from university, and fear for him, and for us all.

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Scott Duncan

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We are in a relentless Arctic #heatwave - Siberia is literally on fire right now and it's set to continue. Temperatures will comfortably exceed + 30 °C within the Arctic Circle over the next 10 days at least. It is a staggering + 20-25 °C warmer than it should be... [THREAD]

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Chris Shaw

7 years

This 'Dump The Guardian' list of anti-Corbyn headlines is fun

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Chris Shaw

1 year

What to do? We can’t work with existing liberal capitalist states. We need to build new ‘climate’ states. That requires we work at some distance from the state to build an alternative model. A new language of climate, us and the world is an essential part of that work.

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Chris Shaw

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8/10 I interviewed 14 climate opinion formers. All recognised the urgent need for fundamental changes to our economy, ideology and politics (IPCC 2022). None (myself included) know how to bring that change about or what the destination looks like. No one is in control

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6 years

The latest IPCC special report underplays an alarming fact: global warming is accelerating.

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3 years

The crap the media were pumping out at a time when there was still a chance to take meaningful climate action. 50 ways to save the planet No.1 Wrap gifts in fabric and tie with ribbon; both are reusable and prettier than paper and sticky-tape.

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50 easy ways to save the planet

You don't have to share the bath water to make a difference

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Chris Shaw

3 years

I wonder what the people of the future will think of the decision made circa 2020- in full knowledge of the science- to a. continue increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 for another 30 years and then b. sell that policy as a hopeful vision that will solve climate change.

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@IceGoingSouth @xr_cambridge @ingredient_x Probs time to dump the happy clappy 'by 2050' climate solutions timelines. It will be too late by then.

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4/10 Guardrail 2: The Western construction of climate change is universally true. Western descriptions of acceptable levels of harm sit above ideology, national interests, culture and geography. The one dangerous limit to climate change is the same whoever and wherever you are.

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@CraigMurrayOrg @BrikKirby Do I today in my small reactionary town take my Palestinian flag and stand on the street in the rain and just take the abuse and inevitable police aggro? I feel I have no choice.

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Guardrail 1: Climate change is not a challenge to individualism. It is through our individual free choices that climate change is solved. The state and corporations will respond to the signals they receive from individual choices, and enable the change that individuals demand.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

It's so hot. I can't believe the weather patterns have been so transformed by just 1C of warming. How can it be safe to aim for a 66% of limiting warming to 1.5C? What is wrong with me that I can't just accept that it is indeed a safe and sensible objective?

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Chris Shaw

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I've got less than no time for all these people jumping on the climate bandwagon 30 years too late and who spent that 30 years getting rich creating the horror show we are now living through.

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Deborah Meaden warns time running out to act on climate

Dragons' Den star Deborah Meaden says start-ups can help drive the green agenda.

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Chris Shaw

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@GdnPolitics @chunkymark Condems Corbyn and praises Thatcher. Yeah, not for me thanks.

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5/10 Guardrail 3: Climate change is not an historical phenomenon. Climate change can be solved within the existing capitalist relations of production. Climate change should be de-politicised, and responded to purely on the basis of the science and agreed targets.

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Chris Shaw

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I mean, just stop and think. The capitalist/bourgeoise/liberal/free market/industrial civilised world - the apogee of human intellect and endeavour, to which there is no alternative - creates the scenario where I am sat with my son talking about the imminent end of the world.

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6/10 Guardrail 4: Climate change will be solved, and it will be solved through technological innovation. Human progress is real, is expressed through technological change and is an unassailable imperative of human existence.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

Spent some time over the weekend with very senior people from law, military and finance. This is what they told me Yes, climate change is real and serious No, I will not countenance any response which costs me a penny or imposes any limits on me.

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@RyanTheMato Politicising the issue, rather than pretending humanity, capitalist states and corporations are all one happy family united and holding hands as we skip happily to the net zero castle on the hill.

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Chris Shaw

2 years

Anecdotally, the Royal Marines are being told by their officers that food shortages are coming and they will be preparing to deal with securing access to food.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

I was listening to a webinar with the gardening presenter Adam Frost and he said, throw away your gardening books. The seasonal patterns are now changing so rapidly and profoundly that such books are no longer any guide to what is actually happening, past knowledge is redundant.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

Buddhist teachings suggest change is only possible at one moment - now. Climate change policy frameworks, which have continually sought to postpone the radical, revolutionary and profound change to some moment other than now, are the problem, not the solution.

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2/10. Dominant representations of this unprecedented and overwhelming crisis are anchored in what is already familiar and known. That anchoring has to date been done by liberal Western institutions, within discursive guardrails that serve the interests of those institutions.

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7/10 Guardrail 5: New stories will save us. We need new stories that show how the whole of humanity can align with the norms of Western liberal democracies, and live clean, smart, prosperous and fulfilling lifestyles without dangerous emissions of greenhouse gases.

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Chris Shaw

6 years

How are we now not locked into an imminent catastrophe? I mean, it's not just that this hasn't peaked - its accelerating at record breaking speed. It's like, you see your dinner is burning and you decide the best thing to do is turn up the oven.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

The Earth does not engage in gradual change. Rapid and violent changes are the norm, not the exception. Pearce, 2007.

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Chris Shaw

1 year

3/10. Climate scientists talk of boundaries or guardrails to describe limits we must observe to avoid dangerous climate change. Likewise, liberal discourses of climate change employ symbolic guardrails to avoid dangerous political ideas. I identify five discursive guardrails.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

"A single litre of petrol used today needed about twenty five tons of ancient marine life as precursor material." Mitchell, Carbon Democracy, 2011:15

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Chris Shaw

5 years

The problem with saying 'listen to the science' is that the science says lots of different things about the level of risks we face, and - properly - says nothing about the politics of responding to those risks. So that's a 'no' from me on calls to just 'listen to the science.'

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"Coloniality is a political blind spot and a systematic amnesia in climate policies and actions, despite being a key driver of climate change manifested through various forms of extractivism, economic growth, and hegemonic Eurocentric knowledge production."

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4 years

In an advanced sophisticated reasonable democracy the national economic conversation would be about how to exploit this drop in emissions as a catalyst to close the gap on climate targets. It's not. It's about how we get back to climate destroying economics asap.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

Does anyone actually believe in a painless and smooth path to a world free from the impacts of climate change? Why can't an optimistic or hopeful vision also hold in that space acceptance of inevitable suffering? At the moment it seems a choice between doom and naive fantasy.

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1 year

A new paper in 'Climate and Development' argues climate finance institutions are unlikely to be capable of 'catalyzing transformation', given 'these institutions embody the same liberal logics that created the challenges they are designed to address'.

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The liberal limits to transformation in the Green Climate Fund

International climate finance institutions increasingly articulate their goals as catalyzing transformation, but can these institutions bring about deep structural change when they reflect the same...

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Chris Shaw

4 years

This image of a French playground = 1000 books of social critique of liberalism

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1 year

@SophiaKianni @SCROTUSinChief An additional 328000 bird deaths. I'm not arguing against wind turbines, just pointing out this is a weak argument in favour of wind turbines.

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5 years

This election isn't just about the UK. If @jeremycorbyn and @UKLabour win, the world's political centre shifts leftwards, and the universe begins the long awaited arc towards climate justice.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

If we can't get our climate change act together in these last days of relative climate stability then heaven help us when it all starts to unravel.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

Absolute monster of an ongoing heat bomb here in SE UK. I wonder how many people know the plans for solving climate change mean turning up the furnace, and keeping it at that higher setting in perpetuity.

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3 years

One long standing characteristic of climate discourse and research is to offer a radical proposition (eg we have no time left) and respond to that proposition with a reactionary and conservative response, such as 'so everyone should turn their radiator down by 1C'.

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Chris Shaw

11 months

The system that is giving us the genocide of the Palestinians is obviously not a system capable of providing a just response to climate change.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

If anything had shifted in the environmental mindset of our worldview there would be no such thing as disposable facemasks. All the green/sustainable talk is just rhetoric, a deceit intended to placate public anxiety.

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Chris Shaw

5 months

The largest ever recorded leap in the amount of carbon dioxide in the world’s atmosphere has just occurred. .

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Record-breaking increase in CO2 levels in world’s atmosphere

Experts issue warning after finding global average concentration in March was 4.7ppm higher than same period last year

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Chris Shaw

1 year

I'm numb more than scared, it's like 20 years of rage and fear have been sublimated into a kind of low level spiritual death.

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I’m so scared

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Chris Shaw

5 years

Debates about the seriousness of climate change continue to circulate on twitter. Just to clarify, this graph is the answer you were looking for👇

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Chris Shaw

4 years

Someone please give me the lowdown on why the way to avoid dangerous climate change is to continue increasing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 for the next 30 years? Asking for the young, the poor and dispossessed of the world.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

Have spent some time recently with diverse groups of young climate activists. It is now clear to me that the demands that are motivating many young people are far more radical than is apparent from the reporting, which is primarily focused on whose placard is the most witty.

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Chris Shaw

2 years

@ClareSaxon I feel you. My PhD and subsequent book from 10 years ago was all about how come it was possible to make people believe climate change not dangerous until 2C. My message was not always welcomed. And now, brave would be the person who claimed 2 degrees of warming is safe. ☹️☹️

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Chris Shaw

3 years

@JamesGDyke It feels like a profound and growing divide, between those who think the climate crisis is the result of our way of being in the world vs those who believe there is nothing wrong with the way we relate to each other and the world, we just need to decarbonise those relationships.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

What surprises me is not that cider was mentioned 10 times and climate not at all in the UK government's budget, but that people are surprised by such a thing, that they actually ever believed the government was up for doing what it takes on climate.

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mentions in Rishi Sunak’s speech: “cider” - 10 “climate” - 0

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5 years

When I first became aware of climate change circa 1989 it was immediately obvious that we had to choose between capitalism and averting a global catastrophe. And no one would choose the end of the world, just so they could keep working hard to buy a nice car. Would they?

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4 years

"The environmentalism of the highly industrialised countries is at bottom a sham, because it fights against something it does not really want to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue". Wendell Berry, 1989.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

So we are definitely going with 'recovery' as the word to describe a return to the state of permanent crisis that defined the pre-lockdown era?

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Chris Shaw

3 years

I don't buy any of the late in the day conversions to the reality of anthropogenic climate change. The denial was ideological, the new found 'concern' is ideological. Four Years Ago, Boris Johnson Said Climate Concern Was ‘Without Foundation’

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4 years

@CharlieJGardner The media are structurally incapable of responding to the depth of this crisis. The primary goal of all activity in liberal capitalist democracies is directed at reproducing liberal capitalist democracy.

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5 years

The proportion of people who are “very concerned” about climate change has jumped to a record 52 per cent, up from just 18 per cent five years ago.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

In any sane world the record breaking heat would not be one news story amongst a sea of inanity and infantile trivia. The only stories would be about climate change, upcoming meetings, events and activities for all citizens to be involved with, updates on adaptation plans etc.

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5 years

"Only 18% of people working in music and the performing and visual arts grew up in a working-class household. In publishing ,it’s a pitiful 13%; in film, TV and radio, it’s only 12%." I reckon it is similar numbers for the environmental sector.

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Yes! Structural (class) critique of the concept of imposter syndrome. 'Impostor syndrome’ is a pseudo-medical name for a class problem | Nathalie Olah

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Get your head round the fact that we and our children are living at the time when these headlines appeared in establishment publications and state broadcasts. Asides from all life actually having ended, how much more real can this crisis be?

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This is the reality we're facing. Nothing matters now beyond digesting this awesome fact and doing something about it. Everything else - everything! - is trivial by comparison. #ExtinctionRebellion

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1 year

As a climate person I see the UK state is sending warships to aid in this slaughter and I think, how can I or anyone else believe the UK state, as currently constructed, has anything to offer the project of building a humane and equitable response to climate change ?

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Chris Shaw

5 years

This is where pretending climate change isn't a political issue ends up. Could dimming the sun save the Earth? Bill Gates wants to spray millions of tonnes of dust into the stratosphere to stop global warming via @MailOnline

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1 year

@DaveThroup There has been a serious misjudgement about how sensitive human societies are to changes in the climate. Our human world was built for an entirely different set of conditions from those face today.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

Because technocratic liberal capitalism is the best system there has ever been or ever could be I am confident that we have well advanced plans for how to care for isolated and vulnerable people during a possible record breaking heatwave this summer, under pandemic conditions.

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Chris Shaw

4 years

I hoped never to see the day but things have got so bad not even the Telegraph can continue denying climate change. Climate change is already making California feel unlivable

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Climate change is already making California feel unlivable

Through pandemic and wildfires, residents can no longer socialise indoors or out

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Chris Shaw

4 years

@lewis_goodall @BBCPM Covid: UK was over reliant on the idea that science could finesse the numbers so that we didn't do any more than was (economically) optimal. Other countries less driven by the science instead adopted the precautionary principle. Climate policy: ditto

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1 year

@yalawiya @ProgressiveCDN What a dark, horrible nightmare

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2 years

@hunt_cheese @saaaauuull "Voters should reject this irresponsible left wing wish list and replace it with the rich peoples wishlist, same as everywhere else."

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4 years

"For thirty years we’ve swallowed the delusion offered by the blue pill, nonsense models of utopian tech and cheery tales of green growth. But in 2020, even the blue pill dealers are having their doubts."

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Chris Shaw

1 year

Sh*t falling apart at 1.2C of warming and yet for 30 years elites (with the help of environmental NGOs) have got away with framing 2C as a dangerous limit for climate change. That was no accident on the behalf of elites but a deliberate ploy to delay action.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

Liberal market democracies are defined by acquisition for acquisitions sake, acquisition for no goal other than more acquisition (R.H. Tawney, 1920). The net zero discourse has as its primary aim the preservation of conditions needed to enable continued and endless acquisition.

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Chris Shaw

5 months

Optimistic that we can save liberalism and maintain Western dominance of the world.

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Chris Shaw

3 years

We are still living in 17th century. Locke's claim that the property rights of the individual should be the paramount guiding principle of liberal civilization remains unchallenged. It is more important to uphold that principle than take meaningful action on climate change.

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Chris Shaw

6 years

@medialens The anti-Corbyn circus is in complete disarray - panicked into promoting a rapidly unravelling Daily Mail story. Game on.

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Chris Shaw

5 years

Researching public attitudes to climate policy shows people are supportive of ambitious policy as long as they know everyone is playing by the same rules. That's why people are cooperating with the lockdown. And it's why liberal politics - do what you want -won't work for climate

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Chris Shaw

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Not just an unhelpful slogan, but a failed policy framework which sought to remake climate change in the image of the technocratic co-ordinating caste, offering nothing for the working class, thus making it an easy target for the right.

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Chris Shaw

7 years

@GeorgeMonbiot The Guardian has not been kind to Corbyn either.

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Chris Shaw

6 years

@GretaThunberg @WeDontHaveTime0 I would say this is the first piece of genuinely good news on climate change I have encountered since I first became aware of the issue.

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