Thread by @SteB777

The new Labour administration have been a massive disappointment, not just about river pollution, but the whole climate and ecological emergency, which they deny i.e. they deny it is a crisis, requiring emergency reaction.
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https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1880385907297251505

To support the above statement:

"SIR KEIR STARMER I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists"

2/thesun.co.uk/news/30853358/…

Typical of @Keir_Starmer, he provides no supporting argument about what he means by "Net Zero extremists". The only people he directly references are @ExtinctionR, but this makes no sense, as they are merely asking for what the @IPCC_CH and @antonioguterres are saying.
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It's hardly credibly, that @Keir_Starmer with all his advisers and all the resources at his fingertips, genuinely fails to understand, that these climate activists, are merely asking for what science, the UN and @antonioguterres says is necessary.

4/un.org/en/climatechan…

@Keir_Starmer would have people believe, that his fossil fuel industry greenwash nonsense of CCS will allow us to reach Net Zero. He could have just asked the leading experts who signed this letter, but you get the impression he's cherry-picking.

5/theguardian.com/environment/20…

I get that @RobGMacfarlane was mainly talking about our rivers, and the nature crisis, and this is what primarily motivates me, but they are all inexorably linked.

5/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

I have essentially been an environmentalist since I was a boy. My first love was rivers, streams and still waters. I was pretty expert on them before I was 10. I'm in my 65th year now. I was playing close attention 55 years ago.
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I never remember a time when politicians in the UK, were not promising action to address the nature crisis. On almost every level, the situation has got much worse. There has been no let up in the declines for over 50 years.

7/stateofnature.org.uk

I was on the @RNNMarch on 22nd June, when all the speakers spoke hopefully about once the Tories were out and Labour were in, how things would change.

Sadly, I didn't share their enthusiasm.

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https://x.com/RNNMarch/status/1805566954054308135

I've lived through enough Labour administrations in my 65 years, to know they're only marginally better than the Tories. What's more, the present Labour leadership, are all neoliberals. Sadly, most people don't know what that means.

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Neoliberalism is not just an insult the left use, as neoliberals try to convince the public. I could best describe it as a secret religion, a fanatical cult, both sides of the political divide, adhere to.
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It would be easier to convince a creationist, that god doesn't exist, than to convince a neoliberal, that neoliberalism is bad. I am not kidding, neoliberals are a type of fundamental religion, a genuine cult, a death cult.
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I know a lot of people will take issue with this, but then they need to explain, why nothing ever improves as regards the climate and ecological crisis, and why we are on course, towards global suicide.

12/theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The time for talking is over. No more vague promises about addressing the nature crisis in the future. We need to draw a line in the stand. Unless we see massive action now, those promising it in the future are lying, and engaging in greenwash.
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We have to fight now. We need to get angry. There has been over 50 years of promises, nothing has happened, and the global situation is now dire.

If you're not angry and prepared to demand action, you're part of the problem.

14/theguardian.com/environment/20…

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