Thread by @SteB777

People have been tricked into destroying the natural systems that sustain us, and which are essential for their children to survive in the future, just to make a lot of profit for very rich people benefiting from this unsustainable over-exploitation of the natural world.

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1421731889107382273

However, the idea that this marvellous civilization we have created, is in fact a gigantic intergenerational scam, and that our leaders, both political and business, are not in fact our friends, but con-artists exploiting us, seems too preposterous to contemplate.

However, if our leaders were really our protectors, protecting the public interest, they would have reacted to the climate and ecological crisis, by saying we made a huge error going down this path, we must change direction.

In fact, this was what the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, actually concluded. That we must urgently change direction, to stop us destroying the natural systems that sustain us.
un.org/en/conferences…

Yet, despite our leaders promising to address this climate and ecological crisis of the unsustainable exploitation, every government in the world has just continued to pursue business as usual, despite the fact this was taking us towards global suicide.
un.org/press/en/2011/…

Therefore, who do our leaders represent? Do they represent the public, the people who will ultimately suffer, or do they primarily represent the vested interests who are profiting the most from this over-exploitation of the natural systems that sustain us?

If our leaders really represented the people as they claim to, they would act to protect the people against the vested interests and reckless people driving us towards global suicide, because of their greed for more wealth.

Yet, self-evidently they are not doing this. Governments still pay massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies. Whilst at the same time they criminalize peaceful protest, in which good people simply try to alert the public to what is happening.
forbes.com/sites/davidcar…

So yes, I know it sounds outlandish that this modern civilization we have created is actually based on a great big scam. However, this is what the objective evidence says.

Watching billionaires, the richest men on Earth, taking joyrides into space, whilst we are experiencing global extreme weather events, caused by the climate crisis, driven by the greed of these people, should really alert us to what is happening.

When we see people who are facilitating this global suicide pact described as "moderate" or portrayed as possible climate saviours as Bill Gates recently was, and those trying to warn us about what is happening, labelled as "extremists", we should know we are being conned.

It is not about good and evil. It is that greed destroys the judgement of these people who claim to be our leaders and to represent our interests. They are simply not looking at the consequences. But this makes them not fit to lead.

@ClimateHuman @KevinClimate @GretaThunberg @GeorgeMonbiot @JKSteinberger

Let me clarify what I am saying. I am saying that the judgement of those leading us towards this crisis has been rotted by their greed. These are ultimately stupid people, making stupid decisions.

All I am asking people to do is to become alert to the fact that those steering the ship of our civilization, are not competent leaders. Too much power, wealth, high status and greed destroys the judgement of people.

It's incumbent on anyone not caught up in this group delusion to sound the alarm.

I think these people are simply power and wealth addicts. They have convinced themselves of just a bit more, and then they will take action. But this is the thing, they have not taken action and they have let it all get out of control. They are helpless addicts, not good leaders.

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