Co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.
Named #34 Most Influential Progressive in the UK by New Statesman.
Contact: roger.hallam.uk@gmail.com
Nov 15, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🎙️The British Establishment is A Cult: My BBC Interview
"If warming reaches or exceeds 2 degrees Centigrade (Celsius), mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans.”
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2. Like other interviews I’ve done with members of the political class, this one again shows their psychotic inability to see that the real world trumps the political world.
The contemporary British Establishment is a cult that believes in two extreme worldviews:
Nov 11, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1. 🧵It is important that Hansen's paper "one of the most important published on the state of the #ClimateCrisis in years" is seen as combining two modes of analysis: ... @Sir_David_King @DrJamesEHansen : ..2/.📢➡️
2. ... the naturalistic objectivist analysis of the physical and biological environment and a normative subjectivist analysis of the process of social change.
Oct 26, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1/10 🧵"By [2100], an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals—approximately 1/3 to 1/2 of the global population—might find themselves confined beyond the liveable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, & elevated mortality rates because of...climate change"
2/10 academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…
Oct 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. "We environment reporters are urged not to say this because it may sap the will of the public to take action on #climate if they believe it’s too late"
Planning to have people die is one thing - knowing this truth and lying about it is something else. edition.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.co.…2. There is a special place in hell being prepared for liberal journalists.
Sep 26, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
1/10 🧵How British progressive neoliberals facilitated fascism last week.
Last week the left progressive establishment again made the fatal error of lying to the British people about the alternative to the Sunak policy shift to national suicide. It pretended that maintaining ...
2/10 ... the move to “net zero” would create green growth and related delusional abstractions. This decision to lie is rationalized by an embedded pathology of the neoliberal left: that is better to lie to make short term gain (win the election), than to tell the truth, ...
Sep 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Here's farmer @RishiSunak and he's just explaining how he's gonna lead his sheep (ie us) over the cliff.
I mean actually over the cliff - you fall, break a bunch of bones, scream in agonising pain for an hour or two, lose blood, pass out, die. Or how ... 2/.
2. ... how do you precisely think 1000 million are going to be killed by the rich as they take us over 2C?
Understand just one thing: unless we stop them, people like this PM are going to have us die - in a lot of pain.
Sep 9, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. 🧵As atmospheric rivers dump massive amounts of water, it is important to understand humans live in a small niche, and the space outside that niche goes on and on. A little ripple in the greater scheme of things and we go extinct.
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1. 🧵📢 "It would be one thing if this new normal were a one-time change. Insurance companies could probably easily adjust. But the problem with climate change is that it is a moving target."
resilience.org/stories/2023-0…2. Okay, so here is another article on all this. Forget the hottest month since whenever. The real news is that capitalism is destroying itself and it will bring down state regimes with it - certainly in the next 10 or 20 years max.
Jul 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
1. 🧵📢 “The richer a fraction of society becomes, the greater its political power.”
This is simply empirically not true. The elites with the most power are those in egalitarian societies because people are too satisfied to remove their power.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…2. Elites in highly unequal societies are profoundly precarious because most of the population hates them and given a trigger event, will overthrow them. Monopoly wealth also makes the rich stupid because they are not subject to competitive pressures.
Jun 14, 2023 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
1. 🧵THE END OF THE REGIME: "TREASON OR STUPIDITY".
From this point onward our lives are works of art – the quest to free ourselves and become the spirits that we truly are.
The ministers of King Louis 16th knew the French State was bankrupt long before the King was finally...
2. ...informed the regime would run out of money in six weeks. The ensuing crisis led to the calling of the Estates General which refused to support the regime and led to the greatest of revolutions in 1789 ...
Apr 12, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
1. A summary of the beginning:
"The year 2022 changed everything. A new era of global warming officially started. Global warming came into every living room and onto every TV set on every continent. counterpunch.org/2023/04/07/ozo…2. Paradise, California, a town of 27,000, burned to the ground like smouldering matchsticks as the state suffered 7,667 wildfires; UK temperatures exceeded 40C for the first time ever while less than 5% of homes have air-conditioning (never needed it);
Apr 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
EASTER IN AUTHORITARIAN BRITAIN. I am on a tag which means I cannot leave the house before 7am. On Sunday morning I got up at 6am to go to the park with my partner to watch the sun rise & read some bits from the bible. When we got there I went “shit I shouldn't be out b4 7am”.
2. We cycled back. Within 5 minutes I was rung up by the enforcement person. I explained what had happened. She said she hoped I would not be arrested and taken to court. And then wished me a Happy Easter.
Jan 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Roger has created a series of podcasts called "Designing the Revolution", recorded over the phone from his cell in Wandsworth Prison.
This is his mini–Magnum Opus. 2. Roger has studied and designed social change for 35 years: he has initiated and helped run the biggest climate campaigns of the last decade - he knows his stuff.
Jan 14, 2023 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
How to stop having the vulnerable die in 10 Easy Steps.
1. Number one: Accept it is disruption or obliteration. Look in the mirror and say out loud "disruption or obliteration". And then choose disruption.
Dec 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1. Repression is a game you cannot win: an open letter to the British establishment from a political prisoner. 2.
Oct 27, 2022 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1. @jrockstrom is "tired" because he is unaware or more likely does not want to accept the psychology of denial literature.
1. 1.5C is not a point of data but a religious artifact. It is imbued with the sacred taboo of the global liberal class: the all pervasive dogma of progress, the unspeakable terror of regression and fall (a proxy for death). It can never be allowed to be passed.
2. But it will. And when it does a whole world of meaning will collapse and the psychological and spiritual suffering of this class will become unbearable for them. History will have returned.
Oct 26, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
1. Jun Pang @hyjpang_ (from) Liberty: the amendment “will effectively give the home secretary the power to clamp down on protests as and when the government chooses. This will have devastating consequences for dissent.”
/...11. opendemocracy.net/en/public-orde…2. With all due respect to Liberty, the self understanding of myself and many people in @JustStop_Oil, is that a post-modernist construction of "protest", facilitated by Liberty and the liberal space, supports the legitimacy of repression.
Oct 21, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1. "Regions facing the highest ecological threats are on average the least concerned about climate change, with only 27.4% of those in the Middle East and north Africa and 39.1% of those in south Asia concerned about the risks."
..2/ theguardian.com/environment/20…2. More devastating evidence that as things get worse commitment to change will lessen. More devastating evidence that 30 yrs of giving information is a failure. More devastating evidence that #climate movements have ignored some of the basic rules of thumb of social research...
Aug 31, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1. "Global consumption of coal expected to increase to the record levels reached 10 yrs ago."
THIS IS HOW BILLIONS DIE! As climate collapse goes exponential, secondary social effects - war, disease, nihilistic fascism prevent effective collective action. theguardian.com/business/2022/…2. This is why reformism is an utter waste of time - the facilitator of mass death. It can never compete with the tyrannous psychosis of short-termism. Only a prophetic revolution will save us now.
Aug 20, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1. THE FUTURE OF THE GERMAN ECONOMY
Did you get the key stats in this article? 2 worse droughts for 500 yrs happening now every 4 years – 2018 and 2022. And then the drying up on the Rhine lead to a decline in GDP of .2%. So let’s do a little projection. theguardian.com/environment/20…2. Let’s do a reasonable prediction of a 500 year drought happening on average every year from 2030 – some years not so bad other years the worst for 1000 years. That’s -.2% on average every year. -2% over the decade. But that’s just the Rhine.
