"Put it simple, this treaty is a major threat to the EU energy sovereignty, #GreenDeal, and #ClimateJustice goals. This timely comic is of high importance to ensure the French Presidency will end the participation of EU countries to this ecocide treaty.” @ysaheb#ExitECT#NoECT
"The Energy Charter Treaty is the arguably the largest and most arcane obstacle to climate action. This comic will help you figure out what is going on through thoroughly researched cases. Read, share and convince your politicians to stop the ECT!" @JKSteinberger#ExitECT
"This is the biggest threat to climate policy around the world, and most people don’t even know this shadowy, quasi-legal system exists, let alone how it works. If we have any hope of disarming it, we need folks to be aware of what’s happening!” @amywestervelt#StopISDS#ExitECT
“Lubbers Plan” was conceived at the end of the cold war. When it was realized as the #ECT it had 3 objectives. If they had called it “Ruud Shock” Disaster Plan maybe we wouldn’t be stuck in such a mess now?
🔥💀Dawn Of The ECT 💀🔥 celinekeller.com/dawn-of-the-ect #ExitECT#StopISDS
The ”modernisation“ process of the Energy Charter Treaty just keeps this toxic treaty alive! It has been going on and failing for ages. #ExitECT#StopISDS Modernisation of the #ECT is a Global Tragedy at a High Cost for Taxpayers @ysahebtinyurl.com/26zuzyub #NoECT
"The Dutch Government’s strange relationship with the Energy Charter Treaty is coming back to bite the Netherlands.🇩🇪 @RWE_AG evoked the #ECT in its lawsuit against 🇳🇱 for implementation of the phase-out of coal power plants." @ysaheb 2021 euractiv.com/section/energy…#ExitECT#NoECT
“..not uncharacteristic of Dutch political temperament..there was no immediate public uproar abt corporate responsibility in this matter” euobserver.com/opinion/125214#ExitECT
"We don't only need to phase-out coal + fossil fuels. We need to phase out the power these companies still have…over our governments.” @SandraBeckerman
2020
“The coal exit can arrive,” @SvenjaSchulze68 rejoiced + "emphasised that the agreement explicitly mentions bringing forward Germany’s coal phase-out to 2035 instead of 2038."
(in exchange for gold-plating @LEAG_de@RWE_AG's stranded assets) euractiv.com/section/energy… #ExitECT
Earlier in 2020:
"Confidential documents on🇩🇪coal phase-out show that @peteraltmaier (CDU),wants to pay an East German energy company billions in compensation FOR PRACTICALLY NOTHING IN RETURN." tinyurl.com/35fwp4bw
"A bloody straddle in injury time." @felixmatthes #ExitECT
"@BWMK: public discussion abt compensation calculations could "unfavourably influence"🇩🇪's relations with EU!" @badulrichmartha
"Note: It is not the gov with its pseudo-calculations that is to blame..but those who brought it to light." @klimareportklimareporter.de/strom/die-form… #NoECT
“reform is failing, fossil fuel firms are using it to attack climate policies, over a million citizens are calling for it to be scrapped + now highest court of the EU has declared it illegal. Quitting the ECT should be a no-brainer" @climate_trade#ExitECTclientearth.org/latest/press-o…
“..ambition of France’s much-respected Environment Minister was clearly killed by well-resourced corporate interests that used ISDS as one powerful secret weapon”10isdsstories.org/cases/case5/
In what comes as absolutely NO SURPRISE ecomodernism NGO Replanet (funded by #TESCREAL billionaire who also set up think tank 2 influence EU govs on climate + floods money into green parties and FFF) now runs a campaign attacking Greenpeace on nuclear sporting a young woman 🧵
Rutger Bregman: MacAskill's What WE Owe The Future "will mean for the longtermism movement what Peter Singer's 'Animal Liberation' meant for the animal rights movement."
Hero of the supposed to be big moderate majority of Effective Altruism #TESCREAL
Eugenics + pronatalism + 🤮 https://t.co/yyiEcLXmhX
It was devastating when I read this for the first time but it's on a whole new level in 2023, when the racist and eugenicist effective altruist and often called "most influential philosopher of our time" gets a pass as the one warning about longtermism.
https://t.co/RXTarPH4PR
Why would an international left-wing mag in 🇩🇪 link #degrowth to a far-right pleasing neoliberal extremist, who has been attacking degrowth since before it was hip? There's an infowar raging pushing fascism into power. Time to reflect on the “self-destruction” on the left?🧵
Disclaimer: I do believe there exist bad-faith actors but also that if your realm has been targeted by such actors, most people involved are not aware of being part of an operation + have disagreements with each other.
Looking into socialist and degrowth critic Matt Huber, who appeared on the Larouche/MAGAcommunist spacecommune pod and now writes for Unherd, I stumbled on something about Jacobin.
Mind-blowing that SAI #SRM is taken seriously.
As is deabte about geoengineering #CDR#BECCS#DAC#CCS to "save" 1.5 right now, while mitigation hasn't even been tried to take seriously/started to be acted upon. Reading this report takes me forever because it makes me furious.
White man from Global North:
"Perhaps Brazilians watching recent television footage of dying children in Ethiopia and Sudan would be glad to have their own rainfall reduced to 2000 mm a year when necessary." or geoengineering is a humanitarian endeavor! 🤡 homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs/Climatecha…
But evironmentalists are like the people who hated anaesthetics because they wanted to punish women in childbirth for their wicked things done, which they did not do with men! is apparently also possible as a white man's argument for geoengineering. heraldscotland.com/news/15540151.…
“Solar geoengineering not a humanitarian endeavor: it would constitute massive, potentially dangerous, likely centuries-long intervention into the climate system in order to maintain the economic system at the root of the crisis.”🔥
philanthrocapitalism, ecomodernism, longtermism
"There appears to be a faction within climate politics willing to push for extreme..technological interventions to alter the climate system so that we can ultimately change…nothing at all. Or, more accurately, to actively save capitalism from a climate crisis of its own making."
Connecting the dots between “cost-effective" IPCC #IAMs and what #SRM has to do with large-scale carbon dioxide removal #CDR. Would add plan includes powering CDR with “green” nuclear to finally make nuclear "economical" 🤡
+ a lot about David Keith / Bill Gates FICER @DoctorVive
Curiously many Shellenberger nuclear bros & girls claim nuclear is "super safe" but needs deregulation + often appear on climate denial and far right media outlets that propose climate or "energy realism" which just means let's do all we can to help fossil fuels to stay alive.
Guess why for example jobs in renewables in Germany were lost in the last years?
That's right, because the far right gladly supported astro turf anti-wind campaigns while Germany's leading politicians were catering to the demands of Russia's gas lobby and saving coal jobs. 🤡
2021: UK’s most prominent climate science denial group
The Global Warming Policy Foundation #GWPF Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’ promoting nuclear and fracking desmog.com/2021/10/11/cli…