Please see this video of @jrockstrom's presentation at COP26 summing up the figures. He says to keep within the 1.5C carbon budget that the richest 1% need to reduce their emissions by a factor of 30. The video starts at that point.🧵
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What @jrockstrom is saying, and he is likely the world's leading expert on this aspect of the problem, is only massive cuts to consumption and emissions, by the richest people in the world, can keep us within the 1.5C carbon budget. This is about climate equity.
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This is genuinely about solutions. One important aspect of any realistic solution is that the extravagant consumption and emissions of a tiny proportion of the richest people in society, just have to be cut.
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Solutions to a complex interconnected problem like the climate and ecological crisis actually involve a complex web of solutions, including profound changes to the current system.
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You see, if you prevent such massive and disproportional consumption and emissions by the richest people in society, by whatever means, you will have profoundly changed society/the system. You need a much better grasp of systems thinking to understand this.
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I've been trying to understand why we have been failing to address this crisis for many decades. After a massive amount of thinking, reading and research, I have come to very clear conclusions about basic thinking faults in our culture i.e. cultural beliefs about thinking
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The primary one, being a failure to understand effective problem solving. The chief one of these faults, is when confronted with a problem, to just speculatively start throwing out solutions, without any real attempt to understand the problem.
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Whilst this can sometimes work with fairly simple systems like a vehicle, an electronic device etc, where you just replace certain components and hope that fixes the problem, it doesn't work with complex problems, and complex systems. Also this approach is not reliable.
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There is very little understanding of systems theory and thinking in our modern culture, even with scientists. Once again, you cannot solve complex and messy problems, with this crude approach of just throwing up solutions.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_t…
You see, I am not just throwing out random objections to your suggested approach. Once again, you have failed to provide one single reference for your assertions. I have. But you just ignore them because you think you know best.
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learningforsustainability.net/systems-thinki…
Just thinking you know best, without examining what the leading and often collaborative experts say about this, and the evidence and science it is based upon, is not away to find effective solutions to complex problems like the climate and ecological crisis.
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I am not speculating here. When I have pointed to the need to understand this complex problem, before you start randomly throwing out solutions, you have just rejected this out of hand, demonstrating you have no knowledge of systems theory and rigorous problem solving.
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16 Jan
This is very interesting and serious.

Lord Kerslake: ‘You cannot have a situation where a civil servant will make a pronouncement that could end the office of a prime minister. The consequence is that Sue Gray will inevitably have to stop short of that.’
theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
"Downing Street was spinning the report as a “get out of jail” card because officials were confident there would be no finding of the prime minister breaching lockdown laws, since the matter was not in the inquiry’s remit."
"Powell [Jonathan] said he had high regard for Gray, but it was “totally inappropriate” for the inquiry to be conducted by a civil servant reporting to the prime minister. ..."

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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.
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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
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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@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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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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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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