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28 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
More from the gender balance files...
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All these discussions, with nothing actually being said or disagreed.
Also... Amazing how Jane Goodall is now a hero, rather than famous for her repugnant malthusian ideas.

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Ben Pile Profile picture
29 Jan
Read my report for the @thegwpfcom on the UK Climate Assembly, which was an obvious and deeply flawed attempt to circumvent democracy.

The Climate Assembly was convened by six parliamentary select committees:

@CommonsTreasury
@CommonsTrans
@CommonsSTC
@CommonsHCLG
@CommonsEAC
@CommonsBEIS

But half of the funding came from two green billionaire "philanthropic" foundations who controlled the event.
Those foundations are the European Climate Foundation (ECF) & the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (EFF) @EsmeeFairbairn.

(Don't take my word for it - the influence of political organisations in Parliament is supported uncritically by MPs like Darren Jones.)

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29 Jan
The only poll that counts is a vote.

Until people can vote for or against what Greenpeace and the UN want, opinion polls are for the birds.
"The survey was conducted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), analysts at the University of Oxford, and NGO partners using a new approach: mobile gaming."

Seriously...
"From October 7 to December 4, 2020, advertisements in popular mobile games like Angry Birds and Words With Friends were replaced by the survey in 17 languages. "

That's not how "the people" express their voices, Greenpeace.

Moreover, it's f***ing weird.
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28 Jan
That's £143,000 per job "created".

That's a very expensive make-work scheme.
I'm guessing here, but I don't think the authors of this article have much experience in engineering or installing home heating systems, and I don't get the impression that they are particularly interested in hearing criticisms from those that do, either.
These are wonks.

They 'research' 'innovation', but ultimately believe that R&D is just a question of policy and funding.

It's political will alone that will make airsource heat pumps viable, you see. And you'll have one, whether or not you want one, or you will freeze.
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28 Jan
This is a remarkable admission that the thing lacking from the climate agenda is democracy, and that the likes of WEF and Davos man want to find a way around that problem without resorting to actually testing 'collective will'.
"Our main focus is to identify key stakeholders, whether from the corporate world, whether from NGOs, who really get that and really want to push the boundaries to do transformative work, and to hopefully create an unstoppable force".

Rather than asking people want they want.
It's not enough for these resetters and better-builders to set out their pitch, and to persuade people, through democracy, to make the world a 'better' place.

Democracy is an obstacle to their ambitions.

Fact.
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28 Jan
There isn't a problem in the world that Tony couldn't fix with just a bit more authoritarianism & bureaucracy.
I once interviewed a policeman during Blair's term. Off camera, he told me that he had been turned into a kind of social worker. We had to be creative to find a way of saying it on camera so that he didn't get fired.
Social workers with truncheons & handcuffs.
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27 Jan
"Everyone who disagrees with me is a malicious liar".

Which is funny, isn't it, because there's no possibility at all that George Monbiot is a malicious liar.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Imagine -- an entire career that consists of nothing but the expression of bad faith, projected outwards, from the 1990s onwards.

Every claim he has made has crumbled. Every prognostication failed.

Yet it doesn't dampen his energy, or his lust for power.
He will argue against war on Monday, and then quick as a flash, demand war on Tuesday.

On Monday, anyone who supported a war was a bloodthirsty tyrant. And then anyone questioning the casus belli on Tuesday is a tyrant-apologist.
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