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4 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
"Several world leaders have denied any wrongdoing after a huge leak of documents revealed the secret financial dealings of the global elite."

Well they would do, wouldn't they.
independent.co.uk/news/world/pan…
The big question is this, why do so many world leaders, very rich people, celebrities and major Conservative Party donors appear in these leaked Pandora papers?
theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/…
These people are already incredibly rich, pay a smaller percentage in tax than the relatively low paid. So they hardly have any need to engage in schemes like this to evade a bit more tax. If they are a leader of a country, they are expecting their lowly paid citizens to pay tax.
If these people are already so well off, why not deal with ordinary bank accounts, and through conventional means like everyone else. It really does display pathological greed, that despite them having so much wealth, the need to deprive public services of more revenue.
I think the real thing we have to bear in mind with the Pandora papers, the Paradise and Panama papers, is these are the tip of the iceberg. Some are saying why are the amounts relatively low compared to their total wealth. Simply because the rest is in schemes not yet leaked.
We have to ask, why is this allowed, and why is it legal?

Remember, the rules were written by those engaging in this dealing or by politicians financed by people involved in these schemes.
The feeble justification is that what they did wasn't illegal, because they were using the legal loopholes that they or their predecessors put in place.

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This is why the Net Zero by 2050 policy being promoted by governments is fake.

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This is very serious deceit. The vast majority know little about the climate crisis. They trust their governments to address it, and trust their media to inform them about it, and to inform them if their government is not doing what they claim.
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@GeorgeMonbiot Also, every ecosystem in the world and its biodiversity is primarily adapted to climate i.e. it's a major axis of that n-dimensional hypervolume. Meaning all species will become unadapted to the niche they currently occupy.
@GeorgeMonbiot As the climate shifts and every species becomes unadapted to the niche they currently occupy, some will be able to adapt to new niches, but many won't. Hence the mechanism by which many species will cease to exist and become extinct.
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My points about wealth and carbon and consumption footprints are not ideological.

'Private jet providers are experiencing “unprecedented demand” from wealthy customers seeking to avoid the “mosh pit” of commercial flights ...'
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"Private jets emit about 20 times more carbon dioxide per passenger mile than commercial flights, according to industry data."
This pattern is crystal clear.

"It says the world's wealthiest 1% produce double the combined carbon emissions of the poorest 50%, according to the UN."
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29 Sep
You see, if you do not see the world in the terms George describes, and hardly any does, then this is a basic thinking error. From birth we have been taught entirely false ideas about the world in which we live, and these falsehoods persist at the highest levels in academia.
Why isn't academia worried that most accounts of the world and whole academic fields are based on profoundly and demonstrable false views of the world we live in? Science supports the systems view and the interconnection of everything.
Nothing so far supports the mistaken view of the world being composed of separate objects with no connection to anything else. All the evidence is for whole system interconnection. Yet the fallacious world view, still predominates. Why?
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This is probably the most important newspaper article ever written, and every person in the world needs to properly understand what George has said here and in his thread. I can attest to the accuracy of everything George says. My own short thread below.
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It will be noted at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, that all these crises were dealt with as a whole. That the climate crisis only get separated from the rest of ecological crisis after this summit.
un.org/en/conferences…
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