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30 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
The second episode of the #FLOP26 Livestream will be on Monday 1 November, at 8pm. The magnificent Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) will be joining me to talk about the rampant eco-racism and anti-humanism behind #COP26.
Read Austin's brilliant introduction to the subject at academyofideas.org.uk/letters-on-lib…
Links to the Livestream will be posted under my pinned tweet.

It will start 15 minutes before the conversation at 7.45 pm, to allow people to find the stream.

Join in.
Here's Austin on Talk Radio with @TVKev talking about energy and green issues...

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Ben Pile Profile picture
31 Oct
On Tuesday, the #FLOP26 Livestream guest will be the force of nature that is Dr Richard AE North @RichardAENorth. We will be discussing the route from scaremongering to technocracy, and the parallels between global climate politics and the European Union.
Dr North was co-author and collaborator with the late, great and sorely-missed Christopher Booker.

They wrote one of the most important answers to the rampant fearmongering that now characterises politics.

amazon.co.uk/Scared-Death-C…
Richard is one of the convenors of the Harrogate Agenda -- the most deeply considered and developed plan for Britain's exit from the European Union.

harrogateagenda.org.uk/Default.aspx
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31 Oct
Comment from the speaker open of @COP26:

"science is non-negotiable".

It is perhaps the most ideologically-driven and ANTI-science statement of our time.
Here's what Jacob Bronowski said of science:

"Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known. We always feel forward for what is to be hoped. Every judgement in science stands on the edge of error and is personal."

"Science is a tribute to what we can know, although we are fallible.

[...]

We have to cure ourselves of the itch for absolute knowledge."
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31 Oct
James Murray wants to excuse himself from debate about the agenda he works so hard to sustain and profit from, by pitching it as project fear vs project fear.

Maybe so. But if there is an 'our' project fear, it is one which leaves democratic decision-making intact. @DavidRoseUK
I -- and others -- have plenty more to argue besides 'there's no point acting if developing nations emissions are still rising'.

But it's a good point, all the same, and one of many that the #NetZero approach cannot answer, as even 'pro-climate' arguments point out.
Here, for e.g., is Prof. Dieter Helm arguing that the #NetZero deadline approach is flawed, and will drive policymakers into a collision with the public. His solution is a carbon tax, the merits of which can be debated, but which is much more realistic.

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30 Oct
Well, that's freaking weird.

Anyway, wasn't the brat saying she wasn't going to attend?

And who the F is she, anyway?
I've never seen so many ginger people.
Welcome to Glasgow, Grita.

It's all downhill from here.
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30 Oct
The Prime Minister consulted 'scientists' on the most expensive, farreaching and draconian legislation in the history of this country's democracy...

... BUT DID NOT SEEK A COUNTER-POSITION.

That's foolishness in the extreme, for which we shall be paying for generations to come.
It was politics that assembled scientists -- institutional science -- to seemingly understand the problem of climate change.

And it was ideology -- environmentalism -- that framed institutional science's understanding of both the human world and natural processes.
Money then shaped the unfolding of that 'science'.

Institutional science abolished from its corridors any semblance of value-free investigation of the material world.

The view that human civilisation depends on natural processes & 'balance' became established as orthodoxy.
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30 Oct
It is interesting to observe how the billionaire-funded 'journalists' at 'DemocracyNow' are so terrified of democracy, that their only answer is to accuse democracy's advocates of being funded by 'dark money'.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-…
It panics the "DemocracyNow" "journalist" that "Brexit showed that a few ruthless, well-connected people with big money behind them can change history".

No, you daft little worrier. 17.4 million people changed history.
Even after all these years, the "journalist" has not understood that the BigMoney was firmly behind Remain. The banks. The Corporations. The media. The global agencies. The billionaires. The NGOs.

The likes of UKIP and Leave organisations never had big money.
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