Thread by @SteB777

"The UK government is spending many times more on measures that will increase greenhouse gas emissions than on policies to tackle the climate crisis, according to an analysis of the spring budget."
theguardian.com/environment/20…

Is it possible to name any government since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, which has not been spending many times more on policy that will increase greenhouse gas emissions, than policies that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

It is this fact alone, which causes me to call the claim of all world leaders to be addressing the climate and ecological crisis, pure BS and outright fraud.

This is what baffles me. These politicians, these governments, solemnly claim, we must address the climate and ecological crisis, whilst simultaneously spending trillions subsidising fossil fuels, and promoting policy which will make the crisis much worse.
forbes.com/sites/davidcar…

It's so Alice in Wonderland, so bizarre, that I shake my head in disbelief. It's like I've woken up in some bizarre nightmare world, where everyone just uncritically accepts what these liars state, and they refuse to accept the plain in your face evidence that they are lying.

Nearly all government and inter-governmental policy everywhere, is making the crisis far worse. There is to my knowledge no government in this last 30 year period, who has made most, let alone all their policy, consistent with addressing the climate and ecological emergency.

Then you find out that although they all say, we must solve the climate crisis, that they aren't actually talking about any real reduction in fossil fuel burning. No they're still busy promoting flying, opening up new fossil fuel reserves.

Instead they are pretending to be offsetting these emissions, by planting a few trees etc, whilst actually cutting down far more old growth forest and developing natural habitat or over-exploiting it.

Or it's based on some magical future technology, which doesn't yet exist, that will magically suck all the excess carbon out of the atmosphere. Although it is impossible to see how it could ever be implemented at the scale necessary whilst also addressing the biodiversity crisis.

Please tell me where I am wrong? Point to the examples that contradict what I say.

It is utterly bizarre. Just because they talk about addressing the crisis, and make a few token gestures, everyone just accepts that they are doing something.

It's like an alcoholic who can be constantly seen buying huge amounts of booze and who can be seen constantly drinking, assuring everyone that they are now sober.

How can this be happening, and how can anyone take anything they say seriously?

So far all they have done is to talk about doing something in the far and distant future. Goalposts that they keep moving.

I feel really uncomfortable having to point out the obvious, because it makes me look like some sort of obsessive. But please anyone, explain to me how any of this adds up? It seems like an exercise in mass delusion.

I really have given governments a huge amount of time to actually deliver on their pledges. To see some sort of indicator that this time they will actually do something. Just something tangible which suggests that this isn't just talk.

When the new @IPCC_CH report was released the other day I created this thread.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1424670…

I will repeat this.

"Only rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases in this decade can prevent such climate breakdown"
theguardian.com/science/2021/a…

I'm eternally grateful for @GretaThunberg for doggedly pointing out how little of the carbon budget we have left to stay under the Paris 1.5C target.

https://twitter.com/gretathunberg/status/1219653306353618946?lang=en

In Greta's speech above, she says she doesn't once remember any media outlet or politician reporting or acknowledging what she had just said. That she knew they didn't want to report this.

Guess what. All the media, including the so called progressive media that gives most coverage to the climate crisis, cut out what Greta said here, and didn't report it. Even though they reported some parts of her speech.

Not once have I seen any mainstream politician, any government, anywhere, even tentatively suggesting these "rapid and drastic reductions in greenhouse gases" in the next few years.

In fact, if you look at this fraudulent Net Zero scam, they are not actually talking about drastically reducing "greenhouse gas emissions" even well into the future, they are talking about pie in the sky magical thinking about offsetting these emissions, or otherwise hiding them.

@ClimateHuman @GeorgeMonbiot @JKSteinberger @KateRaworth @ProfSteveKeen @ExtinctionR @KevinClimate @GretaThunberg

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