Thread by @clim8resistance

Climate change alarmism is the strangest compact in history. It is a consensus between "anticapitalists" and extremely wealthy individuals, many of whom made their vast fortunes from fossil fuels (and capitalism), and a number of whom's fortunes were made before capitalism. ...

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1121341829041889281

The "anticapitalists" are properly understood as *pre*-capitalists. Their desire is to roll back capitalism, on the belief that capitalism has made things worse. This is distinct from most leftwing thought, which conceived of capitalism as a stage of societal development.

However, the left is so degraded and disoriented, it can no longer discriminate between forwards and backwards, up and down, left and right. It has therefore volunteered its anticapitalists to be the billionaires' useful idiots.

The billionaires want to *transform* capitalism. They want to make it green. This is the business plan.

Monbiot has done more than most journalists to service their interests.

Nothing would suit the billionaires, corporate interests and the owners of vast estates of land more than every individual's ecological footprint having an audit trail, a price, and a limit.

They want a "stable" capitalism. They have recruited virtually all of the NGO sector and the green commentariat. Including green 'anticapitalists' like Monbiot and Novara media. They have commodified the "left" - to turn it into a PR agency, much of it staffed by volunteers.

By convincing people that they have no choice to take radical action, the green "anticapitalist" "left" have forced people to suspend their judgement about what is in their best interests. thesun.co.uk/news/8934720/e…

By convincing people -- children -- that they have no future, they have abolished any debate about what the future could be.

Whose interests does that serve?

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07…

The most prominent green "thinkers" have for a long time argued that people should forget about their own interests -- be they capitalist or anticapitalist. This is Mark Lynas in a left wing magazine in 2004.

Yet Monbiot believes that challenges to 'the system' are not allowed in the mainstream media.

Really? bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07…

When was the last time you heard anyone from the ASI, the TPA, or Spiked given such an uncritical interview about climate change on BBC R4 Today programme?

Yet here she is, calling for a general strike! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The opposite is the case, you're only allowed on the BBC if you DON'T challenge green orthodoxy.

Including the argument to "transform" capitalism. And dinners.

So George likes to talk about rebellion and overthrowing capitalism. And the media, the establishment, contrary to his claim, *loves* to hear it. Nobody likes it more than the billionaires.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Look at them! They adore the radical environmentalists. They can't get enough!

They have been screaming at the radical protesters, for longer than Greta's life: "PLEASE, DO MORE PROTESTING!".

theguardian.com/environment/20…

That just does not fit with Monbiot's claim to have been excluded from the mainstream. XR, the kids protest, and Greta have all been not only tolerated by the political and media mainstream, but embraced and welcomed.

The fact is, George cannot 'overthrow capitalism' any more than the government can respond to Greta's and the XR's demands. Because none of them: Greta, XR, Monbiot, or the legacy parties, have enough support for their agendas.

That is how radical green 'anticapitalists' end up in complete alignment with governments and billionaires: they think people and democracy are the problem.

in the past, the left (broadly) believed it could 'overthrow capitalism' by convincing the working classes that revolution was in its best interests.

Today, the BBC and David Attenborough call for systemic economic change by showing pictures of suicidal walruses.

And so do the 'anticapitalists'. They want people to engage, not with the substance of a revolution, and the idea of what a better life would look like for them, but with stock photography of natural disasters and emotional ideas about polar bears.

"No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response", says Monbiot.

The billionaires clap.

Here is Monbiot's evidence, for instance. It finds billionaire "funding" of Spiked, equivalent to around three Guardian columnists' annual salaries, but for a series of debates on free speech. This, to him demonstrates the fact of a right wing conspiracy.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

But what the likes of Monbiot routinely ignore is the evidence to the contrary.

This 2012 book, for instance reveals that 70% of ALL green activism was funded by just six billionaire philanthropists.

palgrave.com/gp/book/978331…

Just 25 philanthropists funded 90% of all green activism in 2008.

Those donations exceed a $billion per year.

Does Monbiot believe that those donations -- to support and campaign for the systemic transformation of capitalism -- are made out of the goodness of the billionaires' hearts?

Why would he believe that?

You really need to abandon any sense of perspective to take what Monbiot says at face value.

These budgets have increased over the past decade.

Conclusion: George Monbiot talks about 'overthrowing capitalism'. But he is an instrument, not of revolutionary change, but the mere transformation of 'capitalism' to suit a sect of billionaires, whose business plans are served by green ideology.

(For clarity & full disclosure: I neither want the billionaires' transformation, nor Monbiot's fantasy of revolution. I want democratic control of politics and the economy, without fearmongering crony capitalists and faux revolutionaries. If that makes me 'right wing' so be it.)