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.
"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."
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.
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.
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'.
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.