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11 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
We're at that stage of the German electoral campaign when neoliberal think-thanks depict the Green candidate as Moses carrying stone tablets with '10 bans'.

The first 2? "You are not allowed to drive a car & fly"

3+ more months to go until the election... 😱
Thread by investigative journalist here suggesting that the think-thank in question is funded by... the automotive industry
BTW, this is how left-leaning highbrow weekly Die Zeit's homepage looks right now 😱
@JKSteinberger @akkforreal might be of interest

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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
11 Jun
I have never seen this sort of negative electoral campaigning with paid private online ads on the websites of British or Italian or French newspapers.

I guess because it's forbidden by law? Is Germany different here? Honest questions
I mean wouldn't be ironic if the country that is currently having a breakdown about "too many bans" was unique in having... not banned this
So I looked it up and, in Italy, paid electoral ads have been banned since 1999. Perks of the Berlusconi scare I suppose? repubblica.it/online/fatti/c…
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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
10 Jun
Very interesting report by @InfluenceMap: "the aviation sector has emerged as one of the strongest opponents of climate policy in Europe"
influencemap.org/report/Aviatio…
Key passage Image
Several discourses of climate delay are used Image
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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
17 May
Germany is discussing possible bans & taxes on (short) flights & so conservative daily Welt is claiming that "for the poor, the costs of climate change mitigation are more threatening than climate change".

Which means it's *debunking thread time again*
If you want to argue that climate policies are particularly bad for the poor, there are plenty of examples where this claim is more or less plausible.

But you really, really don't want to pick air travel as it's the best *counterexample*. See thread.
BTW that thread is from more than 2 years ago, and since then the evidence has piled up on the extreme inequalities in air travel.

Such as this brilliant report (static1.squarespace.com/static/5d30896…)

More than 60% of German don't fly in a given year. Just 8% fly more than 3 times.
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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
26 Apr
This is just... wow.

70% of Italians believes that Germany has met its renewable energy targets - although it *hasn't*.

70-80% of both Italians and Germans believe that Italy has missed its renewable energy targets - although it *has*. italia.fes.de/fragile-freund… Image
sorry, it should be "although Italy has *met* them"
These are the targets Image
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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
7 Apr
Is this "fully automated luxury whataboutism"?

A thread on misconceptions around flying and its climate impact
Playing down the significance of an emission sector because it's just 2 or 3% is *never* a good idea - see paper & thread here
It is *particularly inappropriate* to use that argument for air travel, for many reasons.

1. Air travel is incredibly *carbon intensive*. Perhaps the most carbon intensive way in which to use your time. If you fly, it probably accounts for a very large share of your emissions
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Giulio Mattioli Profile picture
7 Apr
Two things can be true at the same time:

1 - vested interests try & frame climate change as a question of individual responsibility *only*

2 - we should still be interested & do something about the very large inequalities in personal carbon footprints
Ignoring 2 just because of 1 would be a very bad idea.
See thread by @steviedubyu
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