Thread by @SteB777

I want to highlight and amplify, how current policymakers and governments, have simply chosen to give up on the climate, ecological and sustainability emergency, simply because it conflicts, with the economic and financial policy, they want to continue with.
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https://twitter.com/pmagn/status/1717047118941306906

If you look at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, the 1987 UN Brundtland report, Our Common Future and the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, based on this, all the present and future catastrophes were clearly foreseen over 50 years ago.

2/un.org/en/conferences…

In other words, 51-31 years ago, governments and world leaders, recognized the potential catastrophic impacts, of economic growth and the system that had developed, based on this, and attempted to develop strategies, to prevent future crises.

3/sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/docume…

I have placed links to the relevant UN webpages, which document, the events and reports I refer to. Unfortunately, I have no idea how these references and links will appear, due to Elon Musk's interference with how links are displayed.

4/un.org/en/conferences…

Yet if you read the reports linked to on the webpages I've provided here, it becomes clear that the our governments have done nothing whatsoever to address these future catastrophes, and are just carrying on with business as usual, as if these crises do not exist.
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Yet if you read the reports linked to on the webpages I've provided here, it becomes clear that the our governments have done nothing whatsoever to address these future catastrophes, and are just carrying on with business as usual, as if these crises do not exist.
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Take just one part of this overall system crisis, the climate crisis. Present policymakers talk, as if they have addressed this crisis and it is not a future danger. But there is a massive gulf, between their rhetoric, and the reality.
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Professor Kevin Anderson @KevinClimate is one of the world's leading climate scientists, especially in the field of what sort of future emissions, and climate scenarios, our present policy is leading to. Please see his presentation here.

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What @KevinClimate demonstrates, is that current climate policy, is actually leading us to 3-4C of warming in the future i.e. by the end of the century, not Net Zero by 2050, or the 1.5C Paris Agreement Policy.
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In fact, @KevinClimate calls present Net Zero policy, Not Zero, simply because the policy framework, will deliver us nothing like Net Zero, Not Zero. It's a real The Emperor's Clothes type absurdity. The rhetoric, is detached from the reality, to a ridiculous extent.
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An analogy, is the Theranos, blood analyser fraud perpetrated by Elizabeth Holmes. She falsely claimed to have developed this incredible blood analysis machine and got massive investments, including from tech billionaires.

11/businessinsider.com/theranos-found…

We now know, that this was all empty rhetoric. There was no magic blood analysis machine, it was just a fraud. Net Zero by 2050 is a fraud, in that mould, but on a much bigger scale, and is being perpetrated by our governments, policymakers and corporations.
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This gigantic global scam, is meant to mislead the public into believing that our governments have policy and the technology to prevent climate catastrophe. So they can just carry on with business as usual, and fossil fuels, without the consequences.
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There are amazing parallels with Elizabeth Holmes' fraud. She does appear to have set out to build this blood analyser, but when it was impossible, she just pretended to have achieved it, with fraud. This is exactly what our governments are doing with Net Zero policy.
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This has allowed climate crisis denier to credibly claim climate policy is fraudulent. But what they have got wrong, is claiming that climate change is a fraud. No anthropogenic climate change, the climate crisis is real, but it is the policy to address it which is the fraud.
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Our governments, our policymakers claim to have addressed the ecological, sustainability, and climate crisis, which the 1972 and 1992 UN Conferences dealt with. But they have not even addressed the basics, and the crises unfold without solutions. Only fraudulent solutions.
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