Thread by @SteB777

I cannot over-emphasise this point, and I cannot thank @GretaThunberg enough for highlighting this. Although I think there is a general failure to acknowledge just how profound her points are.

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1419375283614932993

The scale of the climate and ecological emergency is so massive, and the scale of change necessary to address it so massive, that governments are terrified of the public backlash and demand for action, that would follow if they acknowledged it as the crisis it is.

This is their own fault (that of governments). They should have been taking urgent action decades ago. However, as I say, once they do, total system change is inevitable. This dam of inaction, is increasing the surge that will follow, once the crisis is properly recognised.

What this is about is that a relatively few people have unimaginable wealth, power and status, derived from business as usual model. But that immense privilege could evaporate in the twinkling of an eye if there was a massive public demand for action.

Therefore THE reason for governments and powerful people steadfastly refusing to treat the climate and ecological emergency as the crisis it is, is their fear they'd lose their privileged status in our societies i.e. it is all about them.

It really is an utterly absurd situation, a terrible tragedy, that our leaders are failing to act, simply because of their fear that they and their rich backers would lose their special privileged places in our societies.

This is what it is all about. Why the wealthiest and most powerful people have kept the climate and ecological emergency out of the headlines, and have stopped it being treated as the emergency crisis it is.