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@GeorgeMonbiot
May 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Wow. Our #naturenow film on Natural Climate Solutions just won two Webbys! Massive congrats to @tommustill, @trianglemonday, @GretaThunberg, @Charlie_Lat and the rest of the magnificent team.
naturalclimate.solutions
Only yesterday it won best digital marketing campaign. I've never known a short film to have such an impact. It's had 60 million views already, and has changed the global conversation, bringing #NaturalClimateSolutions from the margins to the limelight.
prnewsonline.com/go/2020-digita…
When four of us launched the Natural Climate Solutions campaign, in our free time and without a penny of funding, I hoped that it would raise at least some awareness. But even before our film was released, it went beserk. theguardian.com/environment/20…
We still haven't taken a penny for our campaign. It costsonly about £300 a year, and we prefer to fund it ourselves, to avoid any possibility of cooption. There are now five of us involved, working on it in our free time. Sometimes it's all that's needed. naturalclimate.solutions/who-we-are
Massive thanks to Pat Stirling, @Charlie_Lat, @al_boardman and Gideon Futerman. What an inspiring and lovely group!
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1. Whenever I write about new fermentation technologies, that could greatly reduce the environmental impacts of our diets as well as the exploitation of animals, I run into the same set of objections. In this thread, I’ll take them one by one.🧵
2. A. “I don’t want to eat food from factories”.
Well that’s unfortunate, because almost everything you eat has passed through at least one factory before it reaches you. Even your fruit and veg are likely to have been through a grading and packing plant. Cont/
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1. How and why did the racist riots happen, and what do they tell us about where we might be heading? This thread concerns one part of the answer, the formation of what the historian Arno Meyer called a “crisis stratum” of disillusioned young men. 🧵
2. He was writing about the rise of fascism 100 years ago, but there are some disturbing parallels. Of course, there are also some major differences: for example, we are not recovering from a devastating war. How has it happened without that catalyst?
3. Well, those who have manipulated and helped create this crisis stratum have played on a similar sense of atomisation and betrayal, caused by decades of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism simultaneously promises the world and snatches it away.
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Aug 13
There is no such thing as a migrant crime wave. It's a myth spread by racist agitators. 🧵 brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…
In fact, immigration is consistently linked to decreases in violent and property crime:
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Nor is there an association between *undocumented* immigration and violent crime: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…
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A shocking report about how big environmental NGOs have helped greenwash the most damaging of all food products - beef. They've collaborated with brutal conglomerates to spread disinformation. As I know to my cost, in taking on beef, you take on everyone. vox.com/future-perfect…
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@WWF
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1. What we are seeing all over social media now is flat denial of the very existence of the far right. Far right agitators claim to be simple “patriots”, defending their country. Which is just what far right agitators have said for the past century.🧵
2. They also claim that 20th Century Nazism and fascism were not far right at all, but leftwing movements. On what grounds? That “Nazi” is a contraction of National Socialist. I wonder how many other Nazi claims they take at face value?
3. Actual fascists and Nazis claim that Keir Starmer’s government and the police are fascists and Nazis, for having the temerity to enforce the law. Oh, and those of us who criticise them from the left, we are apparently fascists and Nazis too.
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Where in the #KingsSpeech is the promised end to new oil and gas licences?
Instead, there's a bill "to support sustainable aviation fuel". But there is no such thing as sustainable aviation fuel, and no prospect of it materialising, unless you rewrite the laws of physics.🧵
Perhaps, like the last government's Rwanda bill, the sustainable aviation fuel bill will legislate the nature of reality, asserting that such a thing exists when it does not.
What we see here is the government ducking the hard but necessary policy of stopping new oil and gas - despite repeated promises that it would do so - and instead embracing magical thinking to address the climate crisis.
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