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22 May, 11 tweets, 11 min read
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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23 May
1) We need a conversation about stuck in weather patterns, and their effect on populations of animals i.e. biodiversity. Currently, the UK has had to endure a pattern of adverse spring weather which has lasted almost 2 months.
science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate…
2) By a stuck in weather pattern, I mean an unusual pattern of weather for that area and season, which persists over a long period of time, often months. In the UK, such weather patterns are very unusual because the weather has been typically very variable.
3) I know there is a lot of discussion and research about the cause of this, usually attributed to climate change and the jet stream. However, rather than focusing on this, aside from acknowledging it seems a climate related effect, I want to focus on biodiversity impacts.
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8 May
1) This animated graphic shared shared by @GretaThunberg illustrates something quite profound about the cause of not only the climate crisis, but the whole ecological crisis.
2) It illustrates how one country, the UK, that then had a great world wide empire in which it was exploiting other people countries to create wealth for it's wealthy few, created industrial production fuelled by fossil fuels, to exploit the natural resources of the world.
3) It illustrates how this modus operandi spread at first to other wealthy countries, and that the US a much bigger more populous country overtook the UK in it's fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions.
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6 May
1) Since the 1990s I've been saying that unless a politician/government is willing to take significant, and not token action, in their current term of office, they/it should be seen as obstructing action to address the crisis.
2) We must stop dealing with the climate crisis as separate from the ecological crisis. It was a big mistake.

"We cannot solve the threats of human-induced climate change and loss of biodiversity in isolation. We either solve both or we solve neither."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
3) Originally the climate crisis was separated from the general ecological/sustainability crisis, 30 years ago, in the hope of a quick agreement similar to the successful Montreal Protocol over CFCs and the hole in the ozone layer.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_…
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1 May
1) Excellent points again from @GretaThunberg.

In this thread I want to establish what the problem is using the most simple problem solving strategy there is - of how to effectively solve a problem. The first step is always to define the problem.
2) The problem here is self-evidently what politicians and businesses are referring to as "net zero" isn't actually net zero, it is what they are calling net zero. Calling something net zero doesn't make it real net zero.
3) To understand this problem, you must first understand the map territory relationship, where the map is a metaphor for an idea and the territory a metaphor for reality. How useful a map is, depends on how accurately it maps the territory.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80…
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30 Apr
What my thread is about here is the reality gap between how the physical and natural world described by science actually operates, and the convenient fiction narrative of the natural environment as imagined by classical economics sees the world. #MindTheGap
@GretaThunberg is accurately and pertinently highlighting the reality gap between the climate action pledged by politicians, and the action the science tells us we need to take to avert dangerous climate change and ecological catastrophe. #MindTheGap
However, the problem goes much, much deeper than this. Politicians, economists, business leaders and a large proportion of the public have a totally false view of the world in which we live. The reality gap is much bigger than just the pledged action. #MindTheGap
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30 Apr
1) This came up in a discussion the other day, when someone was misguidedly claiming that cuts to emissions should come before attempts at system change, because that was impossible to achieve in the short term.
2) Yet as @KevinClimate succinctly points out meaningful reductions in carbon emissions and system change are inextricably linked. There is so much misunderstanding of this because of the disjointed reasoning methods we are taught to use to think about things.
3) You see, even if you managed to create the necessary reductions in carbon emissions, without any conscience attempt to change the system, you would in fact of radically altered the system, even if that was not your intention.
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