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Stephen Barlow

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Jun 6

https://twitter.com/JessDenialWatch/status/1930953660114026718

Joe Rogan is spouting uninformed nonsense here. Yes, plants, trees, take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. However, they cannot solve the climate crisis, because of scale and other ecological dynamics. A little knowledge is dangerous without wider knowledge.
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https://twitter.com/JessDenialWatch/status/1930953660114026718

For a start, in most parts of the world, you don't even have to plant trees to create woodland. The land will naturally revert into woodland, if you simply stop farming it, overgrazing it, or otherwise managing it.

And herein, is the problem with this oversimplistic take.
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The reason there's a lack of trees, is not so much we have cut them down, but that we have cut them down, and converted the land to other use (that's what they were cut down for), which stops the trees and woodland, naturally regenerating.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Jun 6

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1930929989584662967

I want to briefly explain my position on this.

THE HUGE MISTAKE is in believing that we must come up with a better system, BEFORE we can challenge the present system. This is not how it works, or what is best.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1930929989584662967

This wrongly assumes that the present system was designed, and at least some people, know how it works. Neither of these assumptions is true. No one planned the present system, and no one has got a clue, as to how it really works.
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Of course there are lots of theories about how the present system came into being, how it runs, and ideologies, which claim to understand this, and have the best way of running things. But all of them are mistaken, false, and fake!
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Jun 5

This is so funny, and so predictable.

Now that Elon has dropped the Epstein bomb, Trump is going to be so triggered, that I can see this becoming an all out vindictive flame war.
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Sure, there are far more important things in the world today.

But watching 2 of the biggest egos, and worst people in the world, try to destroy each other, will be some side relief.
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Elon dropping the Epstein bomb, will be so destructive, because MAGA has been using Epstein to smear everyone else. Whereas the elephant in the room, was that no one was closer to Epstein, other than Ghislaine Maxwell, than Donald Trump.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Jun 4

I want to create a thread to correct some of the misconceptions, and blatant misrepresentation of @GretaThunberg as she sails on the #FreedomFlotilla towards Gaza. Where people are making false assertions, and arguing out from that as if it were fact.

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Firstly, and most importantly, @GretaThunberg has never supported terrorism, she has never supported Hamas, or said anything derogatory about Jewish people, or anything even vaguely anti-Semitic. She said "fuck Israel", because of Netanyahu's genocidal actions.
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It's falsely claimed that @GretaThunberg has given up on climate protest. This is an absolute lie, as she's been involved in many climate protests, quite recently. As she points out, the climate crisis and the genocide in Gaza, are all part of the same interconnected problem.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Jun 2

The basis of most false argument, whether it be climate change denial, genocide denial etc, is the self-referential, circular argument. In which the speaker will make an assertion, which is at best a half-truth, likely an untruth, then argue out from it, as if it were fact.
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We're all familiar with these false arguments. That there was previous climate change not caused by humans, and the climate is always changing. That the genocide in Gaza, is due to the 7 Oct attack. All these assertions are false, specious, on close examination.
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However, you rarely get chance to deal with the initial false premises of these arguments, because those using these false arguments, have in minutes, asserted a whole myriad of other false assertions, on the initial false premise of their argument.
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Stephen Barlow

@SteB777

Jun 2

The temporary, moderate success of the political right is very simple. They are liars and conmen. They will promise all sorts of things, they can't deliver.

The world and politics is in a complete mess. The populist right are simply trying to take advantage of this.
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They appeal to the gullible, with prejudices. It's the immigrants, coming into your countries, stealing your jobs, and subverting your culture, and old well worn strategy of the fascists from the 1920s on. Appeal to prejudices, make impossible promises.
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It's amazing how quickly they get discovered, from Brexit, to Trump's tariff wars. Neither, nor the rest, produce the sorts of results those promoting them claimed. Time to whip up the fear about foreign invasions.
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