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Stephen Barlow
@SteB777
Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake). https://t.co/B7XkkKho07
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Jul 1 • 44 tweets • 7 min read
To add to this, I think it is necessary to go back to the drawing board, with the whole messaging as regards the climate, ecological and social justice crisis.

Communication over these matters, evolved out of a situation, which has either ceased to exist, or never existed.
1/🧵 The strategy all along, was to convince politicians to take the necessary action. Indeed, governments have supposedly been committed for 53 years to take action on this polycrisis.

However, they've never even attempted to take the pledged action.

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Jun 29 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
'One senior NHS figure said they were seeing “medieval” levels of untreated illness in some of Britain’s poorest communities'

Could this be why there's been a big increase in those claiming sickness and disability benefits?

1/🧵theguardian.com/society/2025/j… We were told by members of Rishi Sunak's cabinet, and now Keir Starmer's cabinet, that there was no reason why the numbers of those claiming sickness and disability benefits were increasing.

Whilst, actually, there is a crisis of poor health in the UK's poorest communities.
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Jun 29 • 43 tweets • 8 min read
I admit to having made a huge error. In my time commenting on the Guardian, I thought I had explained enough about the climate and ecological crisis, to straighten out many of the misconceptions about it. But obviously I hadn't.
1/🧵 I know much of my commenting was well read and influential. It was not a guess. Just before the pandemic, the former editor of the Guardian Environment section, the late John Vidal, invited me to his Nature Festival in Oswestry, because he told me he wanted to meet me.
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Jun 26 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
There's a necessity to understand big picture thinking, joined up thinking, the overview.

All the things I've been commenting about, the climate and ecological crisis, politics, the genocide in Gaza, the pursuit of economic growth, neoliberalism, are all highly interlinked.
1/🧵 The interlinking theme, is humanity and social justice. As @GretaThunberg has explained, she is a climate activist, because of the threat to humanity. It is entirely mistaken to see climate activism, as somehow apart from other social justice issues.

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Jun 26 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
"Alexander brushes off criticism of Morgan McSweeney over welfare bill, saying he helped deliver 'historic' election victory"

Let's kill off this myth of the "historic election Victory" which was actually crafted by Rishi Sunak.

1/🧵theguardian.com/politics/live/… This election victory was by default. The Tories had made themselves very disliked. Polling just before the general election showed no great enthusiasm for Keir Starmer. He just wasn't a Tory, or so people mistakenly thought at the time.
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Jun 26 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
There is something seriously wrong with Keir Starmer, and if the Labour Party, don't eject him, their reputation is going to be trashed.

I suppose Starmer thinks that supporting, denying and apologising for genocide is progressive.

You have to look at the whole big picture.
1/ It's not just choosing to hammer the sick and disabled, supporting the horrendous genocidal, murderous behaviour of the Israel regime. But there is rowing back on climate action, and supporting fossil fuel industry greenwash, and far more.
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Jun 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
"Billionaires’ wealth surged $6.5tn over past decade, Oxfam reports

Real-terms gains of $33.9tn for world’s richest 1% ‘enough to end annual global poverty 22 times over’"

Just let this sink in. Poverty, is a choice the rich impose on the world.

1/🧵theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/… Modern shyster politicians (manipulative gaslighters), like the UK PM, Keir Starmer, convince the public with lies, that the vulnerable, such as the sick and disabled have to suffer cuts, because there is no money. What a massive lie.
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Jun 25 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Just how ironic. After claiming they suspected automated behaviour on my account on Instagram, after appealing they found no breaches of Community Standards.

The irony, is that it is some sort of stupid AI that keeps telling Instagram, that I'm not a human.
1/ Image Instagram's stupid AI seems incapable of learning from experience. So even though previous appeals, have proved I was a real human being, not breaching Community Standards, it keeps making the same mistake over, and over again.

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Jun 25 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
Keir Starmer is quite baffling. He gives every sign of being a puppet taking orders and following them. His policy is totally incoherent and impossible to understand, except it's the talking points of right wing think tanks and the Tory Press.
1/ Often when a politician holds rigidly, to a set of policies, often it is a sign of some sort of deep ideological beliefs. But this is the thing, Starmer doesn't actually seem to have any coherent principles or beliefs.
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Jun 22 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This was just posted by @GretaThunberg on Instagram. I want to totally endorse this, and I want everyone to get behind this, especially if they are influential and have a platform.

It's gone too far. If you don't get behind this, and claim to care, then you're a poseur.
1/🧵 Image The reason I say everyone who cares, needs to get behind this, is because #GretaThunberg is the clearest voice there is. This is not about getting behind her as a person, she doesn't want fame or adulation. It is getting behind her message.
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Jun 22 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
I'm fucking furious about this, our fascistic leadership, who have totally lost any semblance of a moral compass, are turning our societies into an Orwellian hell.

That this vulnerable, honest young man was arrested like this, makes my blood boil.

1/🧵theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j… All my life, I have been defending vulnerable people from bullying, often for just been slightly different, or simply caring in an honest way.

And now the state, and its apparatus, are that vicious bully. WTF is going on? They have totally lost their moral compass.
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Jun 20 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
@ClimateDad77 I keep trying to explain, seeing this in terms of slow decline in food yield/production, is a profound thinking error. Perhaps I better understand this faulty thinking, as an ecologist. What matters most, is food yield in a given year, not the average.

1/threadreaderapp.com/thread/1936012… @ClimateDad77 What population ecology teaches us, is that the population of a species, does not depend on food availability averages over a long period of time, but specific shortfalls of food in a given year. This can totally collapse the population, even if the average is fine after.
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Jun 20 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@MrMatthewTodd Whilst its true that extreme heat, will impact the old and vulnerable most. It is a profound error to just think this all that will happen. As I keep trying to point out, our civilization could collapse in the near future, because of climate related food shortages.
1/ @MrMatthewTodd It would only take food short supply, not such abundance as usual, not absolute shortages, in one year, due to the climate ducks, lining up, to in a free market system, to create food hyperinflation, and societal chaos and collapse, which could bring the whole system down.
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Jun 20 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@JohnHann0404 Your reasoning, is completely wrong. It is not that people have suddenly developed these conditions. You don't suddenly, develop ASD or ADHD. It is that it is being recognized more now. Lots of those people have been struggling all their lives.
1/ @JohnHann0404 Let me give an example. I have severe complex PTSD. It didn't suddenly happen, although it got much worse after the death of my sister 16 years ago (we had a shared history of abuse). I objectively had PTSD when I was a child, in the 1960s.
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Jun 18 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
People quite rightly ask me what we can do about this.

I have a simple strategy for dealing with this.

Which first starts by coming together, cooperating on this issue, putting differences aside, and communicating this situation to the public.
1/🧵 Ideally, we could do with a name for this campaign, a simple strategy. It's all beyond me, because I don't have a high profile, I do not have any celebrity friends, but I would call on people who have to come together and work this out. @brianeno @AURORAmusic @ExtinctionR
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Jun 18 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
My reason for posting this, is because all concerned people, need to recognize the situation, accept it, and work together to come up with solutions and strategies of how to deal with this reality.
1/🧵 Throughout the existence of modern environmentalism, and the pursuit of social justice, because I strongly believe they are inextricably linked, the primary assumption has been that we should pursue the necessary change, through our political systems.
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Jun 18 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
@ClimateBen Ben, I am puzzled by this logic and thinking. I have been tirelessly trying to point out, for well over 3 decades. that we were heading towards almost certain catastrophe, without a major change in direction.
1/ @ClimateBen What is happening now, has always been in line with worst case scenarios/error bars, but establishment science, as regards climate change has always been on the unrealistic/optimistic side.
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Jun 17 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I just want to make it clear that I am not just talking about the climate crisis, the ecological crisis, but social justice, because as the incomparable @GretaThunberg they are all linked in caring for humanity and social justice.
1/🧵 It is very clear, that our so called leaders, are pursuing an agenda, which is nothing to do with most of humanity and ordinary people, but the agenda of the richest and most powerful people in the world, against the interests of the vast majority of humanity.
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Jun 16 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Something very strange is going on. It is not just the climate crisis. However, it is now very clear, that no major government, will ever take the action necessary to address the climate crisis agreed to at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit and the 2015 Paris Agreement.
1/🧵 The last 33 years has been an unbroken chain, of world leaders promising climate action and then doing none of what they promised. The UN Secretary General @antonioguterres has gone as far, to call our leaders, liars.

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Jun 13 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I'm a bit puzzled by that is going on in America, under the wannabe fascist dictator Donald Trump, and maybe my American friends can help me?

I'm particularly thinking about events in California, and ICE's attempts to deport illegal "aliens".
1/🧵 My understanding, is that a large proportion of these supposed illegal "aliens" are latinos, and Mexicans are the biggest group.

Let me explain my confusion. California used to be owned by Mexico, and prior to that by Spain (of course originally by Native Americans).
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Jun 11 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Why do I repeatedly find myself having to defend #GretaThunberg from malicious smears, falsehoods and personal attacks?

I think we need to get some things very clear.
1/🧵 The attacks on #GretaThunberg inevitably attack 'her opinions'. This is why the attacks on Greta are grossly dishonest, because nothing she says is her opinion. Always, Greta's views are supported by the experts, and she is just repeating their conclusions, not her own.
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