Thread by @SteB777

What terrifies the hell out of me about this unprecedented high rainfall over the last 18 months, and the huge impacts on British agriculture. Is the total denial, and the complete lack of joined up thinking. This is what lay behind my recent posts on this.
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https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1779054764015153589

None of these media reports, mention climate change or that we can expect these extreme weather events, to get worse, and carry on getting worse due to climate change. It's as if, this is just some random problem. Not a highly interconnected problem.

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The original news report I referenced, just said, this meant the UK would have to import more grain etc, to make up for the shortfall, because of failed harvests. It totally fails to acknowledged, that there a extreme weather impacts on agricultural yields, all over the world.
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Climate related impacts. Such as potential disaster, such as the potential failure of the rice harvest, due to extreme temperatures.

Yet, none of this is connected up, to create a big picture of various threats to human agriculture, everywhere.

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None of this acknowledges that this extreme weather, and climate related impacts, are going to carry on getting worse and worse, with no end in sight. That this is just the beginning, of a future nightmare. This is not it now.
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This is not the new normal, like a lot of false narratives, and denial about the climate crisis suggests. It's going to get worse and worse, and there seems total denial about this, by the media and at government level.
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All over Europe, there are right wing agitated farmer protests, against environmental measures being imposed on them, by right wing climate change denial forces, that refuse to accept we're in a climate and ecological emergency. Total denial.
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Lots of these idiot extreme right wing agitators, are stupidly saying "no farmers, no food". Totally ignoring the climate (environmental catastrophe unfolding), as if there is no connection. Absolutely no joined up thinking, denial of the big picture.
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By joined up thinking, I mean overall global thinking, where the whole global situation, is acknowledged, with a big picture of the whole situation, where you see everything. Not little parts of the big picture, as if the rest doesn't exist.
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Over the last 50+ years I have engaged in a massive personal project, to understand why people were ignoring the unfolding sustainability crisis, the ecological crisis, which is the true crisis.
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The climate and ecological crisis, is not all these events like climate change, the collapse of global biodiversity, global plastic pollution, and a 1001 other global problems, getting worse and worse in adverse trends, but the inability of our culture to join all this up.
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That's it, the crisis is a actually mental crisis. A crisis of perception, the total inability, to join up all the parts of the big picture, and to see what this actually means for humanity, life on Earth, and the future.
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As an aside, it's my belief that the reason for this mental health crisis, all around the world, drug addiction, other problems of social behaviour, is because at some level, people know the current global system, makes no sense, and can't cope with it.
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What brought about the current situation, is when within the last 500 years, several European countries, colonized the world, and imposed their extractivist mindset on the whole world. Supplanting all other cultures.

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The central part of this colonial and extractivist mindset, is just seeing everything, the natural world, other people, as simply commodities to be exploited for profit, with no regard for the eventual consequences of thinking like this. It is psychopathic thinking.
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So how did the whole world, come to engage in this psychopathic thinking?

It's very simple. Colonialism, and the later industrial revolution was implemented by a very small group of powerful and wealthy individuals, obsessed with getting ever richer.
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This small clique of super wealthy and superpowerful people, we call them billionaires now, control everything. All governments, all major politicians, the media etc, is all in their pockets. Through this, they impose their mindset on the whole world.
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It's not just billionaires, but those just beneath them in wealth, corporate entities, which act almost like powerful individuals or countries. It is a highly interconnected web, that impose their personal outlooks, on everyone.
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No particular individual is in charge of this outlook, and it's the ultimate in cliquishness. Most people are familiar with how cliques operate, in their work places, in politics, in educational institutes, everywhere. Where like-minded people act as one.
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Cliques can become very toxic, engage in very unpleasant bullying, and they lose all sight of what they are doing, because no one person in that clique can see what it is doing, or is in charge of it.
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What I am baffled by, is how no one can see the world, is run, and being destroyed, by the most toxic clique, that has ever existed. We'll call them oligarchs for the moment. Cliques never operate in isolation, they interlink with other cliques.
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Cliques are at their very worst, and most toxic, when the members of that clique, have real power. My big question is why don't we see billionaires, other power players, oligarchs and corporations for what they are, a self-serving clique.

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Our societies, our civilization, is in the grip of the most malignant and toxic clique to have ever existed, which enforces its mindset on the whole world, and like other cliques, none of its members, have any insight into how nasty that clique is, and what it's doing.
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When these toxic cliques form in situations, which people have personal experience of, it can be seen, that no individual in this clique personifies the pretty evil way this clique behaves. It's the same with the clique destroying the Earth now.
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Everyone knows how to break up a toxic clique, and that's to expose it. Because toxic cliques can only operate as they do, when their existence is ignored, and not acknowledged. Unfortunately, this clique, has become a cult.

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A cult is the next level of a clique, when that clique becomes formalized, develops a power structure, and imposes those clique beliefs on all those in that cult. The cult running our modern society is a level up from a normal cult, as it controls everything.
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This what is so terrifying about this death cult, that has got a grip of our societies, and is steering us on a globally suicidal course facilitated by climate change, massive biodiversity loss and a 1001 other impacts. Yet no one can see the big picture of what is happening.
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Normally, when a problem occurs, there is a realization that something has gone wrong, we step back and address the problem. People don't normally try carrying on as if nothing is happening, which is what is happening now.
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The wonderful @GretaThunberg came up with a brilliant and simple analogy, our house is on fire. It is as if our house is on fire, and everyone in it, is trying to pretend it just isn't happening. This is what should tell us, that we are in a cult.

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The fact, that despite knowing we are living in a totally unsustainable system, for over 50 years. Despite the international conferences, we carry on, along this globally suicidal course, as if nothing is happening.

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The solution to the climate crisis, is very simple. We need to stop burning fossil fuels, and to leave them in the ground. Humanity hasn't always burned fossil fuels, and doing it for profit, in an organized way, has only come about in the last 200 years.
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What's more, we can produce energy in other ways, albeit, probably not at that scale, or that ease of profitability. Remember, we have had over 30 years to phase out fossil fuel burning, and transform our societies so they can function without fossil fuel burning.
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Instead, we (collectively, not individually) have ramped up the extraction of fossil fuels, increased the burning of them, and have become every more reliant on them. Proving the clique/cult, addict, like nature of our current system.
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This has only continued, because this self-serving and self-interested clique, that is running the world, and which has corrupted our political systems with their wealth, do not want to give up the source of their increasing wealth and power.

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The massive wealth of this clique, has so corrupted the world, and their power is so great, that far they've been able to defeat any attempt to change direction.

Remember me pointing out, no one in a clique, really has any sort of perspective on how that clique is behaving.
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No one, in a clique, perceives it as the toxic nasty clique it is. In fact, no one in a clique, ever actually realizes they are part of a clique. It takes other people, outside that clique or cult, to point that out.
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All that I'm doing, along with other climate activists and environmentalists are doing, is trying to point out what is happening. Hating on us messengers, is not going to change anything. It's always the same, no one likes these clique bubbles being burst, but it's necessary.
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