Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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Nov 7 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
"Missing 1.5C climate target is a moral failure, UN chief tells Cop30 summit"
@antonioguterres is correct, but unfortunately the rest of the article descends into the same, empty rhetoric, which fails to recognize the real reason for the failure.
1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
The core problem is very simple, all governments, including those making hopeful noises, are primarily focused on the pursuit of economic growth, which hopelessly compromises them, as this agenda is mired in fossil fuel use.
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Nov 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
"David Lammy under pressure as two more prisoners mistakenly freed"
I'm somewhat puzzled about the way this is being reported, allowing serial conman Nigel Farage to make out this is just about criminal asylum seekers being released by accident.
1/🧵 theguardian.com/society/2025/n…
As this report makes clear, hundreds of prisoners, are accidentally released.
Once again @grok is spread disinformation and smears, by falsely labelling people who are moderately left wing, as far left. I am just going to give a brief history lesson, to this artificial unintelligence. Of how the left actually is, not how the extreme right, typifies it. 1/
Firstly, I am not ideological, and I regard all ideology of any direction of ideology, as misconstrued i.e. this is not defensiveness on my part.
The left represents a very broad spectrum of political viewpoints.
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Oct 26 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I see no evidence @ZackPolanski lost his temper.
The issue of economic growth is far more complex, than being for or against it. It is a vague ill-defined concept, which is not properly understood, by those who advocate it.
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Advocates of the pursuit of economic growth, as if it's more important than everything else, usually have a very poor, to non-existent grasp, of how economic growth is achieved, and that our economy is entirely reliant on the natural systems, it is systematically destroying.
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Oct 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"Global use of coal hit record high in 2024
Bleak report finds greenhouse gas emissions are still rising despite ‘exponential’ growth of renewables"
This was entirely predictable, to anyone with their eyes open.
1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
With the increase in the use of AI, EVs etc, it is clear that the increase in renewables is only going to cover the increase in energy use, not to replace fossil fuels.
As I and many other have pointed out, only a pro-active attempt to phase our fossil fuels, will work.
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Oct 18 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
What I was trying to do with this thread, is to illustrate, how all those who deny the existential threat to our civilization, from the climate and ecological crisis, are in some form of ideologically motivated denial.
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As I point out, ALL, not some, who attack environmentalists and climate activists as alarmists, because there is no scientific evidence, for the threat to our civilization by the climate crisis, are being intellectually dishonest.
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Oct 18 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
I want to write a few threads about civilization collapse, and the danger of it, because so few to any understand it. Although it will probably be a waste of time, because I seemed to be having my threads hidden. But I just want to get it down.
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I'm not a doom-monger, saying civilization is going to happen come what may. All my commenting is to stop that happening, because it is entirely possible to avoid this, if, and only if we massively change our system, and start cooperating, and stop competing.
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Oct 10 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
"Peter Thiel, the billionaire political svengali and tech investor, is worried about the antichrist. It could be the US. It could be Greta Thunberg."
If anyone closely resembles the anti-christ, it's Peter Thiel, Donald Trump and JD Vance.
1/🧵theguardian.com/us-news/2025/o…
Just to make it clear, that I am not religious. But I have read most of the Bible when I was younger, and self-evidently Trump hasn't.
Enough to know that the Jesus described was quite the woke commie.
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Oct 10 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Once again, Twitter/X, seems to be hiding my own posts from me. I was trying to explained the messed up nature of our modern society. We need to understand another systems theory, property, and that is emergent properties.
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An emergent property, is where out of a set of parameters of a system, a whole new property emerges, that can't simplistically be understood, from the parts of the system it emerged from. It develops a life of its own.
Trump is not some sort of hero, deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize, for this so-called peace deal. Trump is personally responsible for all the tens of thousands Palestinian deaths since he has been in office, as Biden before him.
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Both Biden and Trump could have immediately stopped the genocidal massacre of Palestinian civilians, and their starvation, by simply threatening to cut off US military and other aid, as Trump did with Ukraine.
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Oct 8 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
I made this comment in response to @ZackPolanski comment, about being attacked by the right. I will place it as a free standing thread. It is about why an agenda of radical change, is the only realistic way forward, and why.
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“There are now no non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly closing.”
@KevinClimate
I want to commend @ZackPolanski for finally saying things in public, in a strong and forthright way, that appeals to everyone. Progressives, without a platform, have been saying these things for years, but never have they been effectively articulated publicly.
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Yes, other politicians, have said enlightened things, and I acknowledge them. But none have shaken up the discourse, like @ZackPolanski has. We need far more people to pick up the baton, and start saying these things, in a clear and effective way, to speak with one voice.
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Oct 6 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
This is straight up sophistry, clever false argument by @lewis_goodall. I can explain to @ZackPolanski how to deal with false argument like this. Instead of trying to counter the false argument, the tactic should be to demand he produces examples to support his assertions.
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@lewis_goodall is not asking questions. He is making a series of provably false assertions, implying that fascists declare their intentions to create a one party authoritarian state, before they get into power. I know of no example where this has happened.
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Oct 6 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
So I'm supposed to believe that I only got 298 views and 8 likes, on a factual, thread about the Orwellian truth manipulation we are being subjected to, when I have over 26K followers, and 2 months ago, over half a million people were viewing my threads? 1/7
Here is the evidence of the sort of viewing figures I was getting only 2 months ago. I mean, I have had over 3.2 million views in 7 days. I know what happened, I am not fucking stupid. 2/7
Oct 6 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
The world is in a very dangerous place. The extreme right, and centrist neoliberals (they merge into each other) are use Orwellian doublethink/doublespeak, and the methods described in "1984", as a political how to do it manual.
1/🧵en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orwellian
In doublethink/speak, things become inverted, War is Peace, Slavery becomes Freedom, Ignorance is Strength, and Lies become the Truth.
It's very easy to illustrate this with how the term terrorism, has become inverted, and abused.
"Synagogue attacker who killed two was a ‘terrorist targeting Jews because they are Jews’, says Starmer"
Netanyahu's government, is committing genocide in Gaza, because the Palestinian residents of Gaza, aren't Jews. That is a fact.
1/🧵theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2…
I condemn anti-Semitism, and the type of hatred that led to this mindless violence, as much as I condemn the Zionist hatred of Palestinians. Mindless violence and hatred, is mindless violence and hatred. It's not about sides.
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Oct 1 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
Everything we need to know about the climate and ecological crisis, was in the early speeches of @GretaThunberg.
We go wrong looking for complicated explanations, when the simplest, can be the trues. It was the finest analysis ever.
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Greta got everything right. She said it was being driven by a few people, solely focused on getting incredibly rich. 100% accurate.
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Sep 27 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I want to briefly explain how I make my political predictions, which are much more accurate than other commentators, who are nearly always wrong. Although the intuitive insight bit is less easy to explain. Firstly, I totally ignore received wisdom, and collective belief.
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Secondly, I deliberate ignore, rhetoric, with is always deceiving. Not just the person themselves, but what those involved say about them.
Primarily, I look at trends and trajectory, along with past precedent.
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Sep 27 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
"‘There are ripples of hope’: allies of Keir Starmer say he can prove doubters wrong"
This is dangerous Orwellian nonsense. Keir Starmer has breached the boundaries of what is acceptable, for a Labour politician. He has to go.
1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/2025/…
Firstly, and most seriously, because it puts him in breach of international law. He has repeatedly and persistently denied that what is happening in Gaza, is genocide, and has gone to enormous lengths to facilitate it.
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Sep 27 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
What I was alluding to in this thread, is the way the media fails to hold Trump and others to account. It is as fixed as professional wrestling, where the outcome is decided in advance. The aim is to be seen to be fighting back, when aiming to lose.
1/🧵threadreaderapp.com/thread/1970620…
Journalists, editors know how to expose liars, frauds and incompetents, it's journalism 101. But oddly with Trump, Farage and other powerful bad actors, they suddenly forget how to expose these cheap conmen, liars and frauds. Why?
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Sep 24 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
"Recent studies show that between 80 and 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action."
The populist right, the representatives of billionaires, want people to believe that no one takes climate change seriously, any longer.
1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is classic manipulative gaslighting, and attempted mind control. The idea of the very rich, is to stop people finding out, how many other people care about climate change, so they will conform, and not take it seriously. It's the tail trying to wag the dog.
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