Imagine thinking that @ISDglobal is not a sinister organisation, doing the work of governments, billionaires and corporations, wrapped in (easy) virtues.
It was cited approvingly in a Graun article. But it does the work of these offices of the government.
Because they can't do it themselves.
The ISD's tools were apparently shared with a group that was founded by a PR man and a convicted money-launderer, who had run illegal online gambling rackets.
"Civil society" is out of control. It is actively anti-democratic, and has displaced the public from politics.
This is just a bog-standard bad faith smear, passed off as research in the public interest. It is hostile to dialogue and democracy, because it attempts to preclude debate across lines of disagreement.
Turner was the first chair of the Climate Change Committee.
The @ISDglobal claim 'independence', as do many other organisations that are identical in their alignment to a particular agenda.
Imagine if they turned their attention to themselves.
What might they discover?
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And that's what the climate thing is about. Its players live entirely virtual existences, remote and disconnected from the lives lived by billions of ordinary people.
Why does Ed want to be the climate champion so badly? Why does he think he has a handle on what the world needs?
Because he's a complete stranger to democracy. He's from a class of people who believe society is theirs to manage and engineer, no matter what people think.
He grew up in wealth, but with the belief that he was good for the world and could make it a better place without requiring the consent of those whose lives his ideas would affect. It's a left-wing version of Divine Right.
Here's the #FLOP26 roundup while the series has a hiatus, for your catch-up convenience...
The Guest on Episode 1 was Benny Peiser of @NetZeroWatch, who explained the UNFCCC process, and what @COP26 was all about.
In #FLOP26 episode 2, Austin Williams (@Future_Cities) discussed eco-colonialism, environmentalism's toxic obstruction of economic development where it is most needed.
In #FLOP26 episode 3, Richard North (@RichardAENorth) talked about scaremongering and technocracy, and one of green technocrats' biggest failures: flooding.
George Monbiot weeps into his longstanding conspiracy theory, which he has been unable to furnish with any testable claims in the 30 years he has been weeping over it.
His form of environmentalism is 90% emotion and 10% evasion of fact and debate.
The fossil fuel companies didn't hoodwink you into heating your home, having warm showers or baths and cooking. The fossil fuel companies didn't force you to drive to see Grandma on Saturday, or to fly to Spain for a lovely holiday in August.
The fossil fuel companies didn't persuade us, against our will to have affordable, reliable energy, to power industries that created an economy, in which poorer people rose out of poverty and had decent, longer, healthier, wealthier lives almost *everywhere* on the planet.
A new scare story. Watch them try to roll this into legislation in short order, despite the total dearth of evidence in support of it, and the total abundance of evidence against it.
A model will suggest that it reduces life span by a week.