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Nov 19 5 tweets 3 min read
This tweet won't be liked now but will age well. Like all past promises, future funds 4 #LossAndDamage won't appear, or be deducted from other development funds, or made as loans, & much of it will end up in the pockets of the rich in North & South #cop27 jembendell.com/2022/11/18/cap…
That is NOT cynicism, but an extrapolation into the future based on empirical analysis of past rich world promises on adaptation & mitigation funding. It is NOT cynical to reject elite hype & uphold the critique of climate finance from the real grassroots ienearth.org/wp-content/upl…
In the coming years we will see who are the "#astroturf" #climateactivists that serve as sychophants to power & promote only ecomodernist ideas on the crisis, versus the real networks of solidarity formed by people who know what justice & healing involves. I met both at #COP27
For more on the lying bureaucrats and politicians from rich world countries, read the Oxfam report. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Dear delegates, observers, activists, execs, scientists and journos:
"Listen to the animals
Listen to the trees
Listen to the spirits of the Earth
Begging us please
#StopListeningToGreed"
@KarlieneMusic

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Nov 18
Filling out a survey from #cop27 organisers & explaining why I didn't use their unethical & intrusive phone app. For @UNFCCC to consent to such behaviour by a host is a gross disregard of principles agreed by the UN since 2003 at @WSISprocess. There should be accountability in UN Image
The UN's declaration of principles says "governments, and other stakeholders, should actively promote user education and awareness about online privacy and the means of protecting privacy" - so that's not accessing private data of attendees of UN events
un-documents.net/wsis-poa.htm
An article in the Guardian after good work by activists for digital privacy and freedoms alerted a lot of delegates to the intrusiveness of the app, as otherwise WE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN
theguardian.com/environment/20…
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Mar 24
Don't blame #Putin or #Covid for your sky-high grocery bill. Blame the elites who collude with the biggest scam in history, involving #CentralBanks and their friends in finance, under the cover of the pandemic
A thread on #QuantitativeSleazing ...
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Since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, #CentralBanks in the West began pouring trillions into the coffers of large corporations, making their #stockmarket friends rich while making us poorer through high #inflation
#QuantitativeSleazing
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#CentralBanks should not favour one business over another by giving them easy loans. Helping large & dirty corporations outcompete smaller firms is anti-business, anti-markets, anti-democratic & anti-sustainability. Such #QuantitativeSleazing makes mockery of green promises Image
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Aug 16, 2021
Dear #TradeUnion movement, New data from Israel shows Pfizer Vax protection may not last so won't prevent a future wave. We urgently need govts to change labour laws to empower symptomatic staff (prior to testing) to protect others by staying off work without loss of pay or job
That doesn't mean a new lockdown, but empowering staff to make wise choices despite having poor job security or zero hour contracts. That may mean employers need support for the costs. Treating people like adults not idiots :-) #FreedomToCare
That such ideas weren't pushed a year ago is an indictment of how disconnected the middle class Left is from the people who have long commutes on public transport to insecure jobs. But the Left has a 2nd chance to wake up & save lives if this virus will hit again this winter
Read 8 tweets
Aug 15, 2021
Crikey...
Time for a shift in strategy for the Autumn, to better protect the vulnerable & empower staff so when they're symptomatic (prior to testing) they protect others by staying away from work/crowds/enclosed spaces. Imagining vaccines are the answer may be a distraction
Although AZ, sinovac and sinopharm might not have as poor performance against new variants as does Pfizer. I'd like to see new info on that (not from the company initial effectiveness studies, but on current effectiveness against variants).
Comments on this graph focus on vax v unvax but that was not the point of the tweeter nor me. The point is that smarter policies to protect the vulnerable and reduce spread look like they will be required, as at least the Pfizer vaccines don't look like preventing a future wave.
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Jun 8, 2021
This screenshot of today's #Guardian shows headlines & pictures using 6 frames about the environment which suppress radical action. Can you spot them?
#CriticalDiscourseAnalysis
@rustyrockets @ClareTotty @peterreason @jongosling @jasonhickel @frucool

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Framing 1: that the environmental crisis is about our children's future. Yes, it is. But the implicit message of focusing on that is that the environmental crisis is not about people's damaged and disrupted present.
Framing 2: that there is time to fix the environment rather than us already being in a situation of disaster management, where there is a lot to do urgently, but which won't fix the situation - just give us more of a chance to be reducing potential impacts.
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