Thread by @SteB777

For 12 years I pointed out this eventuality to @guardianeco in my commenting. I know very well what I was saying was noted because when I spoke to former environment editor @john_vidal he told me it was noticed by him and @dpcarrington
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No less than 56 of my @guardian comments were staff picked. @adamvaughan_uk then Guardian's internet Environment Editor sent me an unsolicited email to thank me for my contribution.
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But then the Guardian banned me from commenting for daring to criticise Suzanne Moore's hypocritical and dishonest attacks on @jeremycorbyn's supporters, to smear them.
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I'm glad that after 12 years @Guardian have finally acknowledged the reality of the likely way the climate and ecological crisis poses an existential threat to our civilization. Although they are still struggling with the ecological aspect and connections.
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It gives me absolutely no pleasure at all to be proven right, because I was trying to get us to avoid this, not to be proven right. But the empirical model of reality, played out be history, does prove my analysis was spot on.
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Everything is part of one
big interconnected and interlinked system. That is what ecology is, the sum total of all these interconnections, and the overall big picture reality this interaction creates. There is no separate the economy and ecology, there is only ecology.
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We artificially delineate ecology as something apart from us, as just the interaction of populations of non-human organisms, as if we humans are separate from all of this. No, it is all ecological and everything humans do, has ecological consequences.
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In an ecosystem, everything affects everything else, through these interconnections. There is nothing apart from everything else, even if we pretend it is different. What I say is totally support by science, even though most of it is just tacit, as it is often not expressed.
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Everything we are seeing now, the cost of living crisis, the energy crisis, the invasion of Ukraine, are the consequences of us living in an ecological unsustainable system, of which the climate crisis is just one big, albeit massive component, of this sustainability crisis.
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It really is not the case that everything would be fine if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, because it was recognized well before this, decades before, that our system was unsustainable, and global conflict, would be a consequence of this.
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Blaming this situation onto the invasion of Ukraine, is to confuse cause and effect. The invasion of Ukraine is not the cause of the current crisis, but an effect, feeding back in a big circular loop.
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Unfortunately, unless you understand things through the lens of systems thinking, much of what I say will go whoosh over the top of many heads. But we urgently need to wake up to the system reality of everything, ecology.
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It's not about my predictions. I don't own the system, I didn't invent it, discover it etc. But I am describing it, and we ignore the reality of this, at our peril. Our present human system is artificial and was created by the powerful to generate great wealth through profit.
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Such an arbitrary artificial system, can be re-configured with total system change. It is entirely possible, even if the very wealthy and powerful won't like this, because they will lose all their privilege, status, power and self-perceived specialness.
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Talking of the @Guardian, @zoesqwilliams wrote a great article about this, even if she made the mistake of including the output of Drax power station in the 45% renewables figure. The rest is great analysis though.
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The fossil fuel and energy companies making obscene profits from the current crisis in classic disaster capitalism, are using their ill gotten gains to sponsor propaganda blaming the energy crisis onto Net Zero and green levies. Trying to shift the blame. Follow the money.
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This is just a total lie and a complete inversion of the truth. This crisis is produced by the same systemic problems - unconstrained free market capitalism (neoliberalism) - driving the climate and ecological crisis.
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@GeorgeMonbiot @GretaThunberg @morss_alex @Sustainable_EN @KevinClimate @JKSteinberger @ClimateHuman @ClimateDad77 @ClimateBen @ECOWARRIORSS @georgecmcgavin @theAliceRoberts @DoctorVive @jasonhickel

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