Thread by @SteB777

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein A tangled web has been woven. In the 1990s when I said to a number of academics, that I expected politicians to reverse ferret out of commitments and pledges they made, they simply dismissed what I said as far too cynical.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein However, my views were based on several insights into how modern societies, systems operate. That oil and fossil fuels were the lynchpin of the whole system and that those in charge knew any change to this would profoundly alter how the whole system operates.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein The economic system since the industrial revolution, really is an intergenerational Ponzi scheme. The actual role of governments is just to maintain this, to facilitate it. This may seem an extreme statement, but it is entirely consistent with the circumstantial evidence.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein I'm suggesting that there is almost certainly a lot of insight at the top, that the whole system is little more than an intergenerational Ponzi scheme, and that they are doing little more than protecting the goose that lays them the golden eggs.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein We must rethink everything we think we know about how the system operates. All this thinking about addressing the climate crisis is merely an epiphenomenon that sits on top of the hidden agenda of maintaining business as usual.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein None of these schemes, this thinking has produced any meaningful results with carbon emissions continuing to rise and no realistic chance on the current trajectory, that they will substantially decline in the near future, as long as business as usual is maintained.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein The factor not taken into account is that in the present system, for developing nationals to catch up with developed nations, in the current industrial, free market system, they have to go through the coal burning phase to develop.

@KevinClimate @JamesGDyke @NaomiAKlein This is simply because in a free market, capitalist, industrial model, you use the cheapest form of energy to industrialize, as it is all about keeping production costs down.