Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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Dec 16 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
This is a change in tack from my normal commenting. I just want to make some points about the latest #drones hysteria.
This is because I have been seeing drone like objects, regularly in the night sky, in North Shropshire/North Wales, for at least 6 years.
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I've always assumed them to be #drones because they don't behave like fixed wing aircraft, or your typical nighttime military helicopter activity, which I'm used to seeing and hearing.
I'm just going to describe how they look and behave, with no speculation.
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Dec 15 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
A few more points about the 1%. As I've said, it's not something you're in, or you're not in.
The actual web of key individuals, who can make decisions, which affect millions or even billions, are all in the top 1%. But most in the top 1% don't have anywhere near that power.
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Nevertheless, it would be rare, to non-existent, to find a key decision maker, who's decisions can affect the lives of many, who is not in the top 1%.
In other words, it narrows down the search for where to look. If someone is not in the top 1%, it's unlikely they are key.
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Dec 15 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I find myself variously accused of scapegoating the rich, envy, of being a left wing ideologue etc.
All this is false, everything I say is about sustainability, the long term survival of humanity, and our societies. I'm trying to clarify thinking.
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I do not claim to have all the answers. However, there are certain core aspects of the problem, which must be addressed, if we are to address the climate and ecological crisis, and to avoid the collapse of our civilization.
Just some notes about my use of the top 1% of the richest people in the world, being both responsible for the climate and ecological crisis, and in obstructing attempts to address it, to maintain their lifestyles.
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I always get similar responses, falsely claiming that most people in the developed world, are in the global richest top 1%. Simple arithmetic proves that this is a false claim. The US population alone is 4.23% of the global population.
@JillBelch Just a few notes on climate change, carrying capacity, at different levels of warming/ecological damage. I've been thinking about this very deeply, for over 50 years, since I was about 10. At first the ecological crisis, later climate.
I'm puzzled at conventional thinking.
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@JillBelch Firstly, what I find odd and very worrying, is the complete failure for anyone to study, the stability of our civilization in relation to unfolding ecological and climate impacts. I mean, quite literally no one is studying it. See here.
All the people who seem to be either climate change deniers, or climate crisis deniers (I will explain the difference), are by no coincidence, also believers in the continuing use of high levels of fossil fuels.
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I class someone who is a climate change denier, as someone who disputes at least some part of the science, showing that climate change is primarily due to anthropogenic carbon emissions. Such as claiming that climate change is natural, or the climate is constantly changing.
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Dec 14 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
I've been around a fair bit, coming up to my 65th year, and I started to become aware of the global situation before I was even 10, it was still in the 1960s. Becoming fully environmentally aware by time I was 10. I was born only 15 years after WW2.
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My only point here is that I've seen much of the post-WW2 world happen, first hand, and was aware of the bit before me, by people who had lived through it. WW2 veterans were younger than I am now, and WW1 veterans just a bit older, or even the same age.
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Dec 11 • 19 tweets • 5 min read
We are starting to see a consistent pattern across the globe:
"Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency says"
"Peatlands are unique and rare ecosystems that, despite only covering around 3-4% of the planet’s land surface, contain up to one-third of the world’s soil carbon, which is twice the amount of carbon found in the world’s forests."
What most people don't really understand about peatlands, is that when they are in a healthy state, they are one of the most effective carbon sinks.
However, when peatlands are degraded, they start emitting large amounts of carbon, into the atmosphere.
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Dec 4 • 24 tweets • 5 min read
I am both baffled and alarmed by our leadership's lack of an appropriate response to the climate and ecological crisis, over the last 50 years.
It suggests that they fundamentally misunderstand the situation and our predicament.
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When I see government plans and strategy, what is discussed at COP talks, articles that discuss strategies, to addressing the climate crisis, in the media, which will actually discuss it, like the Guardian. I am struck by the total unreality of the thinking.
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Dec 2 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This is a dangerous pattern we see all over the world, where especially right wing, but not always, authoritarians, take the world to the brink, and perpetrate heinous crimes, just to avoid personal accountability.
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Whether it's genocide with Netanyahu, invading other countries and threatening nuclear annihilation like Putin, and the forthcoming Trump clusterfuck. These dangerous individuals, are taking the world to the brink, for personal reasons.
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Dec 2 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
There is profound insight, in this quote. I don't know what the late great David Graeber meant by this passage, but I will explain my understanding, which is of profound relevance to the total clusterfuck we currently find ourselves in.
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Anyone familiar with my postings is aware that I keep saying we need to transform our societies to being cooperative, to deal with the climate and ecological emergency, which threatens to collapse our civilization.
This may seem idealistic to some, but it is very realistic.
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Nov 27 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
We are at a critical juncture in the history of our civilization and humanity, due to a number of factors. The climate crisis, and rest of the ecological polycrisis, which is much bigger. Warmongering and the election of Trump.
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Things can go in 2 ways, and we have no reached a point, where it is a real dichotomy. Humanity, can either address these crises, appropriately, which would require a radical change to business as usual, or we are heading towards the collapse of our civilization.
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Nov 27 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
@RogerHallamCS21 As you know I have fully agreed with you for a long time on this and have been trying to warn about this. It is only a matter of time before it happens, and contrary to the impression created, people in rich countries won't be protected.
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@RogerHallamCS21 As I've repeatedly explained, these don't have to be absolute food shortages to create societal chaos and upheaval, and the possible collapse of governments, economic and financial systems. Just not the usual surplus.
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Nov 26 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
First the shocking flooding in Valencia, and then just a few weeks later in Wales and elsewhere in the UK.
'the Climate Change Committee concluded starkly that the UK is “not adequately prepared” for our new and more dangerous climate'
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Yet climate change impacts, have barely yet started, and it is going to get much, much worse, then continue getting worse until generations into the future.
Only radical action, by rapidly ending the burning of fossil fuels, will save us from absolute catastrophe.
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Nov 25 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
I want to massively over simplify the disappointment of COP29, and the climate crisis overall.
This has only been about one thing from the very beginning (1992), and that is rapidly phasing out and largely ending fossil fuel burning and extraction. It is tacit in the UNFCCC.
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That the central aim of climate talks, has not yet been confirmed (how it will take place) over 32 years after the UNFCCC was signed, demonstrates how much our system has been totally bought and corrupted, by the fossil fuel industry.
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Nov 24 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
I'm not preaching to anyone. I'm just saying how things are, and what must happen to prevent global suicide.
I'd still say it, if I got hardly any likes and views. I say it out of duty to inform people.
However, the public are not as indifferent as the naysayers claim.
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Various opinion polls, national and international, show, usually, the majority of people being very concerned about climate change. This is in the face of massive public gaslighting and disinformation, to bamboozle people about the threat.
I've been meaning to post this for a while, but I've been worried about misunderstanding.
There is much discussion and despair about where to now' for the left and progressives, after Trump's victory.
I have a suggestion, I've been trying to get across for decades.
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We need a completely new approach to politics, that totally encompasses the reality of the climate and ecological crisis.
However, I'm not simplistically saying the left and progressives should simply embrace environmentalism, because this has had its own limitations.
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Nov 23 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
@neoversionsix @GretaThunberg You, self-evidently, haven't read anything Greta has written, especially, The Climate Book.
Quite early, after her protests started, she was asked, why didn't she become a climate scientist and find solutions to the climate crisis.
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@neoversionsix @GretaThunberg Greta explained, that the solutions were known, well over 30 years ago, and all that was necessary, was to implement them. The first, and most obvious solution, is phasing out fossil fuel burning. You will probably say something about returning to the stone age.
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Nov 21 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
Excellent article by @GeorgeMonbiot highlighting the absurdity of the Trumpian, denialists on the one hand, and the away with the fairies, techno Utopians, of the neoliberals on the other side, laughably claiming they accept the science.
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As @GeorgeMonbiot has done such a good job of explaining the technical aspects, just read the article. But I will simplify what is happening.
It's now over 32 years since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, since our leadership pledged to address the climate and ecological crisis.
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Nov 20 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
All I am asking for, is for the threat to our civilization, posed by the climate and ecological crisis, to be investigated, and studied.
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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