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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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.
4/8
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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12 Jan
Whilst I think it's important that Boris Johnson is held responsible for the scandals, I think it's also important to remember this is the Tory's fault generally. Rishi Sunak also lives in Downing Street, and therefore must have been aware of the parties there etc. 🧵
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The reason I mention this, is that the Tories might just try replacing Johnson with Rishi Sunak, or another cabinet minister, and saying that's it, the scandals have been dealt with. Whereas none of what Johnson has done could have happened without their full complicity.
2/6
Not only the the cabinet, but the vast majority of the Conservative Party have had far more insight and knowledge of these scandals and corruption than anyone else. They have knowingly covered up for Johnson, and have willingly supported him.
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11 Jan
@GoodLawProject @JolyonMaugham Surely, this proves my contention that this is a case of perverting the course of justice, and not just a breach of COVID laws, if the @metpoliceuk failed to investigate, because of the dishonest denials of Boris Johnson?
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theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…
I do not claim to be a lawyer, but surely if the police fail to investigate and bring charges, because of false and misleading assertions by a powerful person or entity, this is on the face of it i.e. prima facie perverting the course of justice.
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Chris Huhne, then a cabinet minister, was charged, then convicted of perverting the course of justice, and jailed, on the grounds of him having made a false statement about who was driving his car in the context of a minor speeding ticket.
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theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/11…
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11 Jan
In the ongoing parliamentary UQ, triggered by the leaked email showing a social gathering was held in the garden at No.10, Michael Ellis standing in for the PM just said.

"Ellis claims there is “no indication” that the PM has misled parliament."
theguardian.com/politics/live/…
This is staggeringly dishonest considering the objective evidence, and Johnson has presided over a regime engaged in serial lying.
In essence, Boris Johnson has corrupted the whole parliamentary system, with serial bare-faced lying, knowing because how the PM is protected by the establishment, that they will have to lie to cover-up for them.
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11 Jan
1) Once again I ask why aren't Boris Johnson and other senior government members, being investigated for perverting the course of justice, a very serious offence, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment?
2) Boris Johnson and government ministers have repeatedly told the public that there were no parties or social gatherings, that breached the COVID regulations. It is very clear that these lies were to stop them being investigated for breaching COVID laws.
3) Then cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife were sent to prison for 8 months for perverting the course of justice for lying about who was driving their car, when their car got a speeding ticket.
theguardian.com/uk/2013/mar/11…
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10 Jan
It is now crystal clear that our Prime Minster, Boris Johnson, who is already an incompetent buffoon, and total stranger to the truth is being held hostage by different groups in the Conservative Party, many of which are in denial of science.🧵
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Here's a useful guide to some of these Conservative Party groups/factions by at @peterwalker99 . I'd be generous calling a lot of them cranks, in denial of science and evidence.
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
In the Conservative Party, if a certain amount of letters are sent to the 1922 Committee, it's 54, there will be an official leadership challenge. As is clear from the list of groups above, they're big enough to trigger a challenge to Johnson's leadership.
news.sky.com/story/no-confi…
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8 Jan
1) This analysis of wealth distribution in the UK provides a very telling story as regards the climate and ecological crisis. What it shows is an increasing gap between rich and poor. It shows how much wealth is concentrated in a small minority.
theguardian.com/money/2022/jan…
2) The reason this analysis of wealth distribution is because individual carbon footprints are highly correlated with individual wealth, as this well know Oxfam graphic illustrates. It is a similar pattern with other consumption.
3) The reason it is important to understand all this is because a lot of analysis as regards say carbon emissions, tends to give averages for countries, as if all the people of individual countries have a similar carbon footprint.
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