All I am asking for, is for the threat to our civilization, posed by the climate and ecological crisis, to be investigated, and studied.

Is that too much to ask for?

https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1859188927619285233

Those saying this crisis is a threat to our civilization and threatens to make large areas of the Earth's surface, uninhabitable, are those like @Sir_David_King, Sir David Attenborough, the UN Secretary General @antonioguterres etc. They are guided by the scientific evidence.
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When those like @RogerHallamCS21 have warned of potentially billions of death from climate change, and others warned of civilization collapse, this has been dismissed, on the grounds it is not supported by science.

There is no science about this. It's never been studied.
1/🧵 It may come as a surprise to people, but no one has even attempted to study, how vulnerable our societies are to civilization collapse. That's why there is no science to support it. Don't take my word for it.

2/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I was into rewilding, long before the term was ever invented.

I grew up in the English countryside, before there were generous EU subsidies for farming. There were many small abandoned paddocks, and other corners of agricultural land. Abandoned farms and houses.
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https://twitter.com/IrishRainforest/status/1858444528111243390

As a child, I explored these places, and was totally focused on the natural world. So I was fully aware, that if we just left an area alone, nature would rapidly re-introduce itself, takeover, and biodiversity thrived.
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Let's cut through the waffle in the article, and look at the reality.

Firstly, and most importantly, it means no government of any major power, has made any attempt whatsoever, to stick to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. They never even tried.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20… The @IPCC_CH SR15, required virtually halving emissions by 2030, and it looks like emissions will increase, not decrease by 2030. Yes, we could have halved emissions by 2030, but no major government, even attempted to.

2/ipcc.ch/2022/04/04/ipc…

After writing my last couple of threads, it has become clear to me, that the single action, we need more than anything, is to be hyperfocused on challenging those in power, to explain their position over the climate and ecological crisis.

It's the one thing we need.
1/🧵 This will not be an easy task to achieve, because those in power are so used to, and so able, to just avoid answering crucial questions.

That is why we need to get creative, and lay the ground, where they are compelled to explain their positions, and justify their attitude.
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What I was trying to say here, is if you have to campaign, to get our leaders to take a clear and present existential threat to our civilization seriously, then campaigning alone, is self-evidently, not the best way to address this problem.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1857818278174888163

So what I am saying is not lost - I need to make this very clear at the beginning.

Campaigning, is what you do, when people have a choice, as to what option to adopt.

The climate and ecological crisis, has never been an issue of this type.
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When I said, I wasn't into climate action campaigning, there was some misunderstanding about what I meant.

Essentially, what I meant, is that if you have to campaign for action, to prevent global catastrophe, and civilization collapse, then there's something serious wrong.
1/🧵 Once the scientific reality, behind the climate and ecological crisis is conveyed, if our leadership don't get it, there is something seriously wrong with their perception, their thinking, and their grasp of reality.

That's the problem, not arguing harder.
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I broadly agree with @rahmstorf. The right wing media are the worst. But all the media has played a part in this, as all the mainstream media, is to some extent controlled by corporations and oligarchs, who they dare not go against.
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https://twitter.com/rahmstorf/status/1857193079041937798

This, right, centre, left (mainstream left) thing, is all on the surface. Deeper down, they all sing from the neoliberal doctrine hymn sheet, which is what enables, populist liars, like Donald Trump, to pretend they will fight against a liberal elite stitching things up.
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Because I have been engaging with non-environmentally aware people, for over 50 years, I have fully realized just how little environmental awareness, penetrates the mainstream.

I've generally avoided environmentalists, because of this.
1/🧵 One of the first things I noticed, when I attended meetings of environmentalists, was just how detached they were from the rest of society. They mistakenly thought everyone was aware of what they were aware of.
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'Donald Trump’s pledge to exit the Paris climate agreement is “something of grave, grave concern” to climate-vulnerable countries'

"Climate-vulnerable countries" implies some countries are not vulnerable to climate impacts.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/li… Yes, I am fully aware that some low lying island states, are vulnerable to complete inundation by rising sea levels.

However, it is profoundly mistaken, to see other countries as not so vulnerable because they do not face total inundation.
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This is the problem. There is on political realization, no government planning, no research, no scientific studies, no one doing anything in any meaningful way, of asking what is going to happen.

We are totally flying blind.
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https://twitter.com/IanJSinclair/status/1856036494693282227

Think of the chaos, which happened in Valencia, the total unpreparedness, the headless chick approach. Then multiply it by thousands or millions of times, across society globally.
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When I say cooperation, I mean it is essential, for 2 main reasons.

It is necessary, to stop the climate and ecological crisis, getting worse, by focusing on protecting humanity and our needs, rather than trying to preserve economic growth, enabled by competitive behaviour.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1855563173916504067

The very reason for the failure of climate talks, climate policy etc, is that it in a highly competitive world, different countries are seeking a competitive advantage, vested interests, like fossil fuel companies are competing for their own interests.
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Really @Ed_Miliband?

How do you think this is going to pan out, with your government, trying to suck up and grovel, to a climate change denying, dictatorial, POTUS?

Appeasement doesn't work, as Chamberlain found out.

1/theguardian.com/environment/20… I'm baffled at the lack of joined up thinking here. @Ed_Miliband's government, seems to think the best way to deal with Donald Trump, is to be subservient, and obsequious, rather than standing up to him, and being assertive.
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Is this the start of a public reaction to climate change impacts?

1/🧵bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Yes, I'm well aware this is against the government, local and national, handling of this crisis.

However, we can understand the public being confused as to who and what to blame, given the industrial scale gaslighting, the public have been subjected to over the crisis.
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With the election of Trump, I think the conventional approach to addressing the climate crisis is dead in the water. I mean COP talks, the fake Net Zero by 2050 etc, etc.

This thread is for climate activists, scientists, and all those trying to address this crisis.
1/🧵 Whilst we don't know exactly what Trump will do in office, it seems certain that he will pull the US out of all international climate agreements, and massively interfere with, and stop all US government, climate action/research. This is just the bare minimum.
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I fully agree with @JKSteinberger and if there is one thing, that has resulted in another Trump presidency, it is the way the centre, and the moderate left, have embraced neoliberalism. It's resulted in ordinary people getting the shitty end of the stick.
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https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1854094368627396872

THE BIG problem of neoliberalism, is its cult like nature, and the way, the public knows nothing of it, it's invisible, and it's sold to the public, as if this is the only way to do things. Neoliberalsim, has been embraced across the political divide.

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The apparent election victory of Donald Trump, has consequences for the world, that I'm sure, very few people, have ever thought of.

The world has just been sent, in an incredibly dangerous direction.
1/🧵 Most, and probably all professional political commentators and analysts, will be mistakenly seeing this, in terms of very few parameters. In terms of Trump's last presidency, in terms of policy. This is profoundly mistaken.
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The tragic flooding in Valencia, was directly related to anthropogenic carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning, and so is every extreme weather event, and we should end all this absurd anti-scientific nonsense, about whether these weather events, are climate related.
1/🧵 Asking whether an extreme weather event is climate related, is a legalistic contrivance, of the type the tobacco industry used to use, to deny all responsibility, for smoking related cancers and deaths. It's legalese to let the fossil fuel industry off the hook.
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I am fed up with this false argument that we are all responsible, which I can easily contradict with some basic facts and figures.

Why do people use arguments like this, when plainly these arguments are untrue?
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https://twitter.com/stop_fossil_fue/status/1853076786772337079

The claim is we're all to blame, because of our cars, our shopping centres, our holidays etc, etc.

This is so easy to refute. If people really believe these arguments, they why do they repeatedly ignore all the contrary evidence, and my explanations as to why this is untrue.
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Why do right wing newspapers deliberately lie? There is yet another dishonest article in the Daily Mail, falsely claiming the very rare Fen Raft Spider (Dolomedes plantarius) is the size of a human hand (they're nowhere near that big). @BritishSpiders @georgecmcgavin
1/4 These are deliberate scare stories, meant to create fear, revulsion and panic in the public, and a backlash against nature conservation. They were not released by Chester Zoo, but by @Natures_Voice , and the zoo only bred them.
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I'd just like to say, that I do understand, and appreciate, why mainstream politicians, classical economists, the profited minded etc, have so much difficulty with the climate and ecological crisis.
1/ It is about incommensurable world views. Those wrapped up in the economic growth mindset, have a view of the world inherited from the beginning of industrial capitalism, where natural systems, are just seen as stores of commodities, to be exploited for profit.
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