Thread by @SteB777

If we had started fracking in the UK, in many parts of the country, water would have run out, and a huge number of households would be without water. Fracking uses huge volumes of water, and the UK has very limited water supplies.
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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"Fracking may be impractical in parts of the UK due to the scarcity of local water supplies, and in other areas will have an impact on local water resources, the water industry has admitted, in a deal struck with the oil and gas industry."
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Yet this year, this government, has launched a programme to start fracking in the UK. Yet the water supplies are not adequate to supply households and farming - without the massive extra demand fracking would impose on our water supplies.
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Liz Truss, the Conservative Party leadership candidate, and so likely our next PM, is idiotically backing fracking. Not taking into account we do not have the water supplies to supply it, in the time of a drought.
thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/…
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Here's her rival, Rishi Sunak, also backing fracking. Neither of these idiots have connected the water shortages, with making fracking impossible. A complete lack of joined up thinking.
independent.co.uk/climate-change…
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Here's Rishi Sunak, claiming he is going to fix the water supply problem. Presumably this will include doing rain dances in the middle of a drought. What this ignores is that both Truss and Sunak were in government, and Truss was Environment Secretary.

https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1558386514953998338

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In other words, if either of them can do something to fix the water supply problem, why didn't they do it when they had the chance. You see, fixing the water supply problem involves a lot more than fixing leaks and building new reservoirs.
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Our reservoirs are visibly drying up and so are rivers. This drought is all over Europe, and climate change is going to make these droughts and heatwaves far more severe and regular.
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Yet, we have political leaders just ignoring this, with none of the mainstream leaders and parties, having any joined up plan at all to address the climate crisis. Net Zero by 2050 won't stop it.
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First of all, many or most experts on climate, say the whole idea of Net Zero by 2050 is fraud. The plans outlined for it, will not produce net zero by 2050 and they rely on technology, not yet invented or feasible.
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The UN Secretary General, says we must stop all new investment in fossil fuels and the opening up of new fossil fuel reserves. Which is actually what @JustStop_Oil are demanding.

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The UN Secretary General wasn't stating a personal opinion, his points were based on the latest @IPCC_CH report. What are our political leaders doing, planning to open up new fossil fuel reserves.
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Remember, it is the climate crisis driving these heatwaves and droughts. This is at only 1.2C of warming, and current policy could result in 3 or more times this degree of warming.
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Absolutely none of this adds up. What our political leaders are promising is contrary to what the scientific evidence says is possible. They are just promising things they can't deliver and taking us towards global suicide.
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Worst of all is the oligarch owned media, that is complete failing to challenge these lying politicians, or to properly inform the public just how bad the climate and ecological crisis is, and what it means for the future.
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@GeorgeMonbiot @Feargal_Sharkey @KevinClimate @ChrisGPackham

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