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@SteB777
May 22, 2021 • 11 tweets • 11 min read • Read on X
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Let us Swiftly address the biodiversity crisis and to reverse the declines in biodiversity. We need to start now, in a big way. No more tokenism. #BiodiversityDay @IPBES @GretaThunberg @HollyWildChild @GreeneIndy @GreenFGeorge @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin

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Aug 10
This is the direct, suppression of free speech, with the police acting as an oppressive state arm, to silence what people are saying, to stop government embarrassment.

The only legitimate reason to arrest a protestor, is if they are threatening harm or violence, to others.
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This has always been the role of the police, to prevent, protest turning into violent disorder, where the safety of others is threatened.

So if someone is threatening to, or encouraging others to set fire to an asylum seeker's hostel, and this is a credible threat, intervene.
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This is because in the example I have described above, these protestors were actually trying to set fire to buildings where asylum seekers lived, and were trying to physically intimidate them, or physically assault them. It was an actual threat, not just a perceived threat.
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Aug 7
Recently, I created a thread about how and why the world is in a complete and utter mess.

Essentially, modern politics, has just become the puppets of powerful and wealthy oligarchs, and corporations, dancing around on string, to their tune.

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Even if you totally forget about the climate and ecological emergency, social justice, the interests of ordinary people, fairness and corruption. Modern politicians are making a complete pig's ear of running our societies.
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Let's just look at things through the very narrow lens of what these politicians claim to want to achieve, economic growth. They are quite clearly failing very badly, just on their very narrow set of objectives.
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Aug 4
"The head of Google’s DeepMind says artificial intelligence could usher in an era of ‘incredible productivity’ and ‘radical abundance’."

This is dangerously delusional. How did someone so stupid, get such a position?

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Let's get this clear, being stupid i.e. extremely unwise, is nothing to do with IQ and cleverness. Lots of very clever people, were also monumentally stupid.

You can be stupid, and clever.

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This is virtually all the interview says about the climate crisis.

"future AI datacentres are predicted to require is astronomical, especially when the world is facing drought and a climate crisis."

It's not just a climate crisis, its a biodiversity and ecological crisis.
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Aug 4
I want to briefly explain this phenomenon, I've seen develop in the last 15 years, certainly within the last 20 years, because I never saw it before then, and I have been walking in the countryside for over 55 years.
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Those doing this, seem to have got the idea from commercial music festivals, which I am sure most have been to. Where supermarkets sell cheap tents etc, in the festival season, and where the tradition has developed, where you just leave the tent.
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I have encountered groups doing this, talked to them, so it is not pure guesswork. I think it is based on simple economics. None of the people who do this have any interest in camping, so they have no use for this after.
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Aug 4
I use harsh words for billionaire/oligarchs, politicians, corporations, and the media, which the oligarchs own and control, not out of hatred, but because they stubbornly refuse to moderate their behaviour, or see it as a problem.
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In fact, I have suggested outreach to billionaire/oligarchs, to get them to see that it is in their personal interest, to address the many problems they are inducing, which will ultimately impact them i.e. appealing to their self-interest. And I have been criticised for it.
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However, it has become very clear, that billionaires don't regulate themselves, and politicians and the media who are supposed to hold them to account, don't, because oligarchs have got politicians in their pockets, and own and control the media.
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Aug 3
I would like to thank everyone, who has responded positively to this thread.

It was written hurriedly this morning to someone who sent me an email, on some of these subjects. I turned my response into this thread.
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It was rough and ready, but distilled what I had been thinking for some time. I had meant to write it out a few times, but it seemed so massive, so many aspects, so how would I cover it all?

Just how did we sleepwalk, into this mess?
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I am not an ideologue, in fact I reject the whole concept of ideology. It seems a good idea at first, but all ideologies are seriously imperfect, and they get misused.

I identify and explain problems, and faults in the system.
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