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19 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
The context of #FLOP26 (pka @COP26, #COP26) is...

1. Weakening western international relations, & deepening east-west tensions.

bbc.co.uk/news/world-585…
2. Out-of-control energy market prices (blamed on Russia, not on domestic policy.)

3. Manufacturing crisis caused by high energy prices & feedstock shortages.

4. Rising food prices & shortages

5. Inflation?

thetimes.co.uk/article/b48247…
6. The continued legacy of incautious, on-the-hoof, top-down domestic and global Covid policy.

7. Deepening public scepticism of globalism and technocracy, causing the coalescence of new protest and political movements.
8. Other emerging internal dynamics dynamics: NvS & EvW EU splits; polarisation of domestic politics under feckless leadership (Canada & US); France on brink of historic political shift.

9. Post-Afghanistan loss of credibility for 'partners'.
10. BRICS economies fully emerging, and other countries becoming increasingly independent, wealthy and ambitious for development, in comparison with earlier COP meetings.
We could call them ten (and counting) black swans.

Or we could call it all totally predictable.

#FLOP26

We might add...

11. Chairs of remote global technocratic political bodies, waving around modelling studies and declaring "code red for humanity" isn't as compelling in the 2020s as it was in the 2010s.

Agency capture is now well established in ordinary political understanding.

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Ben Pile Profile picture
21 Sep
Ask a silly question.

I've been arguing against stupid climate policy for 20 years.

It has never occurred to me to block roads to 'raise awareness'.

There has been nothing but 'awareness raising' about climate change in that time.

There has been zero debate.
Before I argued against stupid climate policy, I argued for it. But I was very young.

It was listening to greens -- and watching them -- that made me pivot to climate scepticism and then to broader criticism of political environmentalism.

What kind of world do they want?
They do not simply want a world in which there is no global warming.

None of them.

*All* of them -- from Greta and the XR, up through to the Chief Scientific Advisor and scientific research institutions -- want to change society.
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20 Sep
Dale Vince is such a shameless liar.

He's made a fortune out of the excessive prices inflicted on the consumer by government policy.

The price cap was created because the government lost control of the energy market to its ideological ambitions...

The price cap was necessary because the EMR bill failed to address the problems created by the climate change act.

Policy let any fly-by-night spiv set himself up as a boutique energy retailer. All you needed was an iPad and a shed. See also cold-calling and doorstep-selling.
Vince rails against nuclear at the end, claiming that it's more expensive than the market cost.

Well, that's because it was overseen by a Minister who was ideologically preoccupied by wind, like his predecessors and his party.
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Ben Pile Profile picture
19 Sep
Trying to pin this on Putin isn't going to wash.

Putin didn't close down or foil UK/EU natural gas production, didn't ban franking, and didn't close strategic storage.

This is on UK/European governments politicians, greens... Full stop.

telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
* - 'fracking', not 'franking'.
France banned fracking in 2011. In 2017, it banned all fossil fuel exploration.

Germany banned fracking in 2016.

Ireland has banned fracking.

The Netherlands has a moratorium on fracking.

The UK has a moratorium.
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12 Sep
I've said it before and I will say it again...

Electric cars are a bridging technology to having no cars.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
This was obvious to anyone with a brain.

To abolish petrol and diesel cars is to manufacture scarcity.

Then, cars would have to compete with home heating, industry, businesses and hydrogen production. Prices would spiral out of control.
To point it out is to deny global warming, you see.

You must not challenge the Utopian design or you will be accused of being anti-science.
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11 Sep
The solution to 'plastic pollution' is to not put waste plastic in the sea.

But unaccountable, antidemocratic ideological zealots do not like solutions. They like power.

Green ideology is a bigger threat to the world than plastic.

Let's ban environmentalism, not plastic.
Almost nobody disagrees: let's not put waste plastic in the sea.

Being against putting waste plastic in the sea is not environmentalism.

Environmentalists DO NOT WANT there to be an easy way to deal with waste plastic.
But plastic may well be the best substance to use, even in single-use applications.

* It is the least resource-intensive

* It is clean and robust

* it is in fact easy to dispose of

And that is why greens hate it.
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10 Sep
Witness the waffle.
Also, looking at the camera through eyes peering under eyebrows, head tilted forward a la Hancock is the vapid politician's new 'power stance'.
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