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12 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I'm happy I wasn't there, tbh. Not worth the travel emissions
This was a staged event, by and for the fossil fuel industry - which was the biggest and most powerful delegation present
The fossil fuel barons are certainly laughing at how easily - and cheaply - they captured our politicians, our media, and our academia. Little do they know that ultimately they are just as fucked as anyone. Fools. Absolute fools.
The RIGHT way to do a climate negotiation of the nations of the world is to tell the fossil fuel industry and billionaires to fuck ALL the way off, and to actually listen to scientists... and take what we are saying to heart. Namely: end fossil fuels as if our lives depend on it

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6 Nov
Oil spills are bad but the true devastation is when everything works as designed, the oil is burned, the planet heats up, and irreversible climate and ecological breakdown moves up another ratchet.

Immediacy bias in risk assessment. Helps explain climate inaction.
Truly surprising to me, how few people see this.
I think it is the same mechanism that allows people to feel burning fossil fuel is still OK, e.g. plane flights. They don't see the devastation - there are no oil-covered birds, the damage is indirect, the linkages are abstract - so they do not think of it or are bothered by it.
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5 Nov
Normalize calling it neocide - “the deliberate killing of young people and future generations”
The climate and ecological emergency is so obvious now, to everyone, and the projected impacts are so severe (and this is also well known), that this sustained lying and inaction from corporate and government leaders is a form of neocide
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group." Climate and ecological breakdown is directed toward young people and future generations. I personally feel this is distinct and that a more precise word might be helpful.
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4 Nov
Here's my article about the coming epidemic of deadly climate depression among the world's youth, and why getting past #blahblahblah is the only way out.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The Greek word neo means “young, new”. We can thus coin a word, neocide, meaning “the deliberate killing of young people and future generations”.
It is psychologically devastating to feel climate and ecological catastrophe closing in every day while watching those in power not only failing to act, but actively making things worse by expanding the fossil fuel industry.
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2 Nov
I strongly suspect world leaders are busy at COP26 embracing the absolute techno-bullshit that is CCS when they should be making detailed plans on how to end the fossil fuel industry within ten years. This would be disastrous. Here are my thoughts
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A few more thoughts on how inadequate and impossible CCS will be to scale up in time to make any difference at all
I am not generally hopeless, but so long as world leaders chase CCS vaporware instead of the real work of ramping down the fossil fuel industry, there is essentially no hope. This is the key thing. We will know we're on the path to safety only when they stop chasing distractions
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28 Oct
There is still a LOT of confusion about Climate Income, where you put a fee on fossil fuel and give it right back out to people in an equal monthly check. So, a thread.

First, it's not regressive for one simple reason: rich people spend vastly more on energy than poor people.
Suppose you have 10 people. 5 people put $1 in the pot (representing the working class) and 5 people put in $10 (representing the rich, who buy a lot more energy). Everyone then gets $5.50 back. $5.50 > $1.

More expensive fossil fuel then accelerates changing everything.
Second, it's not a tax. If the government kept the fee and spent in on stuff, it would be a tax. But they don't, they give it back to everyone in an equal monthly check. So it's not a tax. It's a universal Climate Income. So don't call it a tax. Because it isn't.
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25 Oct
I think governments should seize fossil fuel assets at this point. It may sound radical but there has never been another point in history when human actions were on the verge of destroying the habitability of our planet. It would allow for equitable emergency control of supply.
So long as fossil fuel barons and investors are allowed to maintain enclosure, there is no way to ramp down on a schedule while controlling price and allowing equitable access for all. Despite causing this planetary crisis they'd profit grotesquely while most others were cut off
They lied routinely for decades, thus ensuring this unbelievably horrific crisis for all life on Earth for their own petty, selfish, gain. They deserve prison, not obscene profits.
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