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May 22, 2021 11 tweets 11 min read Read on X
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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More from @SteB777

Nov 7
"Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit"

@antonioguterres is correct, but unfortunately the rest of the article descends into the same, empty rhetoric, which fails to recognize the real reason for the failure.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
The core problem is very simple, all governments, including those making hopeful noises, are primarily focused on the pursuit of economic growth, which hopelessly compromises them, as this agenda is mired in fossil fuel use.
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I have previously described the Keeling Curve, the long term documentation of the steady increase in atmospheric CO2 levels, as the knife of truth, which cuts through the hopelessly misleading rhetoric, about climate change progress.

3/keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Read 23 tweets
Nov 5
"David Lammy under pressure as two more prisoners mistakenly freed"

I'm somewhat puzzled about the way this is being reported, allowing serial conman Nigel Farage to make out this is just about criminal asylum seekers being released by accident.
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theguardian.com/society/2025/n…
As this report makes clear, hundreds of prisoners, are accidentally released.

Nor is this new, there have been many cases like this for years.
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news.sky.com/story/how-many…
One of Britain's most notorious serial rapists (white), was released early, accidentally, and went on a spree of horrific offences.

3/news.sky.com/story/joseph-m…
Read 11 tweets
Nov 1
Once again @grok is spread disinformation and smears, by falsely labelling people who are moderately left wing, as far left. I am just going to give a brief history lesson, to this artificial unintelligence. Of how the left actually is, not how the extreme right, typifies it.
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Firstly, I am not ideological, and I regard all ideology of any direction of ideology, as misconstrued i.e. this is not defensiveness on my part.

The left represents a very broad spectrum of political viewpoints.
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What are properly typified as far left, and I say this in a very neutral way, are revolutionary Marxists, communists etc. They don't believe in Western democracy, and believe that the system needs to be overthrown by revolution. Most are quite open and honest about this.
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Read 25 tweets
Oct 26
I see no evidence @ZackPolanski lost his temper.

The issue of economic growth is far more complex, than being for or against it. It is a vague ill-defined concept, which is not properly understood, by those who advocate it.
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Advocates of the pursuit of economic growth, as if it's more important than everything else, usually have a very poor, to non-existent grasp, of how economic growth is achieved, and that our economy is entirely reliant on the natural systems, it is systematically destroying.
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Economic growth, is maintained by systematically destroying the natural systems, that maintain both the human economy, and humanity in general. You can't have infinite growth in a finite system, and it be sustained.
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Read 7 tweets
Oct 22
"Global use of coal hit record high in 2024

Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables"

This was entirely predictable, to anyone with their eyes open.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
With the increase in the use of AI, EVs etc, it is clear that the increase in renewables is only going to cover the increase in energy use, not to replace fossil fuels.

As I and many other have pointed out, only a pro-active attempt to phase our fossil fuels, will work.
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Yet governments refuse to consider this, because they are focused on trying to increase economic growth, to the exclusion of everything else, including a habitable Earth. They just don't care.
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Read 9 tweets
Oct 18
What I was trying to do with this thread, is to illustrate, how all those who deny the existential threat to our civilization, from the climate and ecological crisis, are in some form of ideologically motivated denial.
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As I point out, ALL, not some, who attack environmentalists and climate activists as alarmists, because there is no scientific evidence, for the threat to our civilization by the climate crisis, are being intellectually dishonest.
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There's no scientific evidence, for the very obvious reason, that there has never been any scientific study of the risk of civilian collapse, being induced by climate and ecological impacts. If critics of this were honest, they would acknowledge this.

3/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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