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Ben Pile Profile picture
@clim8resistance
Apr 17 • 11 tweets • 7 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Only critics of LTN and anti-car policies have their political affiliations cited in this @BBC piece. Not the Green Party activists, not the XR activists, and not the 'academic' activists...

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-652432…
@BBC Oxford Livable Streets....

Is that it? Image
@BBC Here she is, locking herself underneath a truck at Marble Arch in 2019, to demand Net Zero by 2025, among other extreme things...

dailymail.co.uk/video/news/vid…
@BBC This is interesting because whereas @BBCJustinR presents the resistance to LTNs as a conspiracy theory, the activist's far more extreme views are not presented as radical in the slightest.

The activist is portrayed as a normal, ordinary local resident... Image
@BBC @BBCJustinR Why didn't you tell the audience that Plummer is an Extinction Rebellion activist, Justin?

I hope the full episode does a better job of explaining the facts...

@BBC @BBCJustinR Let us remind ourselves that Extinction Rebellion are in fact conspiracy theorists, and believe that only a radical reorganisation of society, including the suspension of democracy, can save civilisation from imminent collapse.

@BBC @BBCJustinR But @LozzaFox is apparently the weird one, for believing that people's mobility is an important, fundamental right?
@BBC @BBCJustinR Plummer: "What about the freedom to be able to cycle down the street without getting knocked off your bike?"

What about it? I have cycled those streets thousands of times.

The only time I was ever knocked off my bike was when I was 12, and a pedestrian walked into me.
@BBC @BBCJustinR (And no, she didn't stop, despite the fact that she had just pushed a kid off his bike by not looking where she was going.)
@BBC @BBCJustinR Plummer: "What about the freedom of asthmatics to have better air quality?"

Yes, what about it?

PM2.5 is below WHO guidelines, and the NO2 comes from buses blocking the roads and the likes of George Monbiot with all his wood burning stoves. Image
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Ben Pile Profile picture
Apr 18
Green ideology causes in its victims a cascade of category errors to construct a world view, transmitted by propaganda in media.

Among the putative companies lumped together as the 'coal lobby' here, for example, are organisations that are committed to Net Zero and ESG.
"Lobbying" is understood by such ideological zombies in its most shallow and crude way: political donations. And it shown without context, or perspective, i.e. comparison.
Here, for instance a superficial "study" of declared lobbying by @YaleE360 political campaign seemingly compares spend by certain sectors vs environmental campaigning organisations.

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Apr 17
The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, currently the Prime Minister, who rose amid questionable shenanigans, is lecturing the country about maths. Image
That's 1.3 x 10^14, to people with maths.

(To the trolls who are barking me about 'funding', that's a lot more money than you can find in 'big oil'.)
Rishi Sunak better hope that people *don't* develop their maths skills.
Read 4 tweets
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Apr 17
How about asking how it is possible that the Net Zero thing is still happening here in the UK, and then doing the math for clues about why the nuclear-to-coal thing is happening in German.

Crazy is the baseline, across the continent.
How was this possible?

Well, this was possible.

It's only slightly less bonkers, in fact.

"There is no downside to decarbonisation", says Leadsom, "only upsides".

And her co-panelists can't really challenge her.

Read 28 tweets
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Apr 16
This is the saddest BBC documentary to have been produced since that one about dogging.
Same energy... ImageImage
I've looked them up and found a story about another claimed founder member of the 'Ninjas'.

He has blocked me, though we've never had any interaction.

These "Ninjas" are a bit damp.
Read 22 tweets
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Apr 16
No, Positive Money, if the green ideology and policy agenda that you are advancing had not prohibited exploration and production of natural gas throughout Europe, then prices would not have risen.

Your propaganda is an attempt to divert blame for what you caused.
We are "exposed to these shocks" because green ideology is dominant in policymaking throughout Europe, despite having no substantial democratic foundation.

Green lobbyists made false claims about the ability to produce power in abundance and affordably.

And you are part of that lie. As id Simon Evans and his Carbon Brief blog.

You -- and he -- are lying to the public about the costs of renewable energy.

Read 10 tweets
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Apr 16
Reminder... Although @SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon's office claims that we have "denied" the "evidence", they have refused an FOI request for air pollution data... Image
@SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon Reminder: the smear machine wants to claim that we are 'far right' and 'conspiracy theorists'.

@SadiqKhan @MayorofLondon But that claim does not stack up. It's obvious from Together events people from all backgrounds are involved, and are drawn people from left, centre and right, who believe in democracy before ideology.
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