Thread by @SteB777

You must watch this. I endorse everything @GeorgeMonbiot says here, every word. This is my own conclusions having spent 50+ years of thinking very deeply about this. 🧵
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https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1480857022669152258

Those of you who followed my commenting on @guardian , before they banned me from commenting, for no valid reason, will know I have been making the same points for a long time. I was saying this well before then. @john_vidal @dpcarrington
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profile.theguardian.com/user/id/431189…

It took me a long time to fully understand this. When I personally studied systems theory, dynamical systems theory, after I completed my ecology degree, everything clicked into place.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical…

Ping, a light suddenly went on, and I fully realised why our thinking on the climate and ecological emergency was so bad. Everything, ultimate reality, is a highly interconnected and interdependent system. We have gained a lot of control with mechanistic linear thinking.
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However, this mechanistic linear thinking is not how everything actually operates. This is just a crude, expedient model, which allows us to expediently exploit the Earth's natural systems. It gives us the ability to exploit, but not to understand what we are over-exploiting.
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We have mistaken the map for the territory. We as a culture have mistaken the ability to over-exploit and destroy natural systems, with us controlling and having mastery over the natural world.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80…

Let me give a simple analogy. Most people know if you pour accelerant onto a flammable object, and set fire to it, you can destroy it. Any old fool could destroy a great work of art like this. But very few could create that great work of art in the first place.
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Being able to destroy and damage, which is what over-exploitation of natural systems is, is not the same of having mastery over nature. Let's be very clear about this, we can only damage nature, not destroy it. But we can totally destroy our own species, reliant on nature.
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@GretaThunberg @ClimateHuman @JKSteinberger @DoctorVive @GeorgeMonbiot

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