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Stephen Barlow Profile picture
@SteB777
Apr 5 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I want to briefly illustrate how the climate and ecological crisis, is not the doing of most people alive today. Most are powerless, but some are not.

If an SUV driving consumer, gave up their lifestyle, and became an activist, nothing would happen.

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Whereas if just one of the world's richest billionaires, and there are less than 3000 billionaires, suddenly said our whole system is a complete mistake, and used their fortune to fund a campaign for system change, the impact would be massive.
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That's right, just one of those billionaires, has that individual power and ability, let alone collectively.

In fact, they have far more power by just not doing anything. That is what they're doing now. Not doing anything, and actively using their wealth to block action.
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This is why the whole argument, that everyone is responsible for the climate and ecological emergency, is a preposterous falsehood, a massive lie, oppressive sophistry of the most malignant, gaslighting kind.
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Apr 6
@AnnieLeymarie @JCSvenning I'm certainly not going to block you. But I'm familiar enough with the evidence for and against, that anyone speculating about whether humans were involved in megafauna declines, are engaging in largely uninformed guesswork.
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@AnnieLeymarie @JCSvenning I say largely informed, because I am dumbstruck at the lack of insight those who engage in this speculation, seem to have into hunter-gatherer hunting strategies. They seem to imagine, they hunt, like modern Western Hunters.
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@AnnieLeymarie @JCSvenning Hunter-gatherers, like non-human predators, do not hunt rare species. It is only modern, Western hunters, who have this thing about hunting rare species. Once a prey population, falls below a certain size, there is the practicality of finding them to hunt.
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Apr 6
Actually, the big difference, that @theAliceRoberts will be familiar with, is religion i.e. specifically Christianity. Its ideology, theology, had a profound effect, on the world view, that the later European nations, developed. It made them far more righteous.
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Whilst the later Roman Empire, adopted Christianity as its official religion, much of the theology, we now associate with Christianity took many more hundreds of years to develop and crystallize. The pagan outlook of the Roman Empire at its height, was qualitatively different.
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Whilst pragmatic, the Romans were also inhibited by their pagan belief in the gods, omens etc, and as I say, still had far more connection with the natural world. Pagan views are far more based in reverence of the Earth and nature. Christianity, was opposed to this view.
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Apr 5
I often see climate activists, environmentalists and conservationists, express disappointment, that our species, humans are so destructive and uncaring.

This is a fundamental thinking error, a myth. It's not our species, which is like this, but our modern culture.
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In my massive, and deep review, over many decades, of why we carry on this globally suicidal path, driving the climate and ecological crisis, despite this course being well known, for over 50 years, I asked deep and searching questions as to why this was so.
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Without going into depth, I concluded that our modern culture was riddled with myths. Demonstrably false ideas about our place in the world, that natural systems that sustain us. These myths, facilitate and regulate the behaviour of people.
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Apr 4
This proves people were conned by our leadership. Politicians, the media, the corporate world, all hailed the Paris 2015 Agreement, as the big breakthrough. With all their Net Zero bullshit rhetoric ever since then.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
Yet all along, the top state controlled actors and big corporations, were pushing the metal to the floor, ramping up their output and burning of fossil fuels, not working on reducing emissions, like their rhetoric pretended.
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This has not just been discovered by this study. This pattern of behaviour, government and corporate strategy, must have been well known to all governments, all the media, corporate intelligence, government intelligence, because that is what their job is.
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Apr 1
Our country seems to be run by total idiots, which just about describes our global leadership.

How did Conservative Party think it was going to play out, by claiming Brexit would be wonderful, and they had the answers to everything?

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I've seen this coming for a long time, and have said so repeatedly. However, what I've never got, is why our leadership, thought it was wise to promise things they couldn't possibly deliver.

That they wouldn't eventually get found out? When the flag drops, but BS stops.
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As I explained here, and in previous threads, the apparent post WW2 miracle, of a decade upon decade, increase in the prosperity of ordinary people in the wealthiest countries, was only temporary. It was bound to slow down or stop at some point.

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Apr 1
Just a quick explainer on my position on technology, as I often seem critical of techno-fixes. I'm in no way anti-technology.

My problem is the way technology is utilised in a capitalist growth economy system, when the main determinate of its use or none use, is profit.
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Again, my criticism of the profit motive, is not moral or ideological. It is entirely from a systems perspective, in how it distorts the way our systems run, in a way not conducive to the common good, or ecological stability.
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Inevitable, the profit motivation, primarily suits the most powerful and the richest in our societies, who benefit most from increased profits and economic growth. Again, this is not a moralistic or ideological critique, but from the perspective of overall sustainability.
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