Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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Apr 3 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Let me briefly explain the major miscalculation of Trump and his sycophants, over his tariff debacle.
Trump like most psychopaths, doesn't understand consequence, and he has zero understanding of systems thinking.
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The way Trump and his sycophantic loons see it, the US is the biggest economy in the world, and what they do, will re-shape the world in the favour of the US. But it doesn't take into account, how the rest of the world reacts to it.
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Apr 3 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I've been saying this for a long time. Now the insurers are waking up to it. That is, the climate crisis is a serious threat to capitalism. They way I put it, is climate will strangle economic growth and the financial system will crash.
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I am just baffled by why more don't see it. My point that our civilization has got a maximum of 10-15 years before our civilization with business as usual BaU implodes - is based on that being approximately how long capitalism has got left with BaU.
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Apr 2 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
When people's kids are growing up, the most important thing is being able to feed and cloth your children. In the UK, around 4.3 million children are living in poverty, and this will increase due to Starmer's, neoliberal benefits policies, pushed by right wing think tanks. 1/
Here's my source for the amount of children living in poverty. This is 30% of the children living in the UK. The amount of children living in poverty in the UK is increasing, and is about to be made much worse, with @Keir_Starmer's callous policy.
@AyoCaesar Hmm, Ash, you are not doing your credibility much good. Firstly, I'm not a member of the Green Party, or a supporter of any party.
This is your problem - "On the doorstep, many voters perceive them as solely an environmental party." The environment, is everything.
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@AyoCaesar Everything is ecological, without it we wouldn't exist. If we don't radically re-structure our society, our civilization could collapse within the next 15 years because of the climate crisis, and if it does, most people will starve to death.
@NBPTROCKS @dlature Let me explain. I think the often focus on "climate solutions" is totally meaningless and a dangerous distraction. Like should we use, nuclear, geoengineering, CCS and a 1001 other climate solutions. All totally meaningless if there is no realistic means of implementing them.
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@NBPTROCKS @dlature I've been saying this to nuclear advocates, for 35+ years. I point out environmentalists are no obstruction to nuclear power, they don't have that sort of influence. I say, nuclear expansion doesn't happened for deep inherent problems, and therefore it's not a viable solution.
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Mar 27 • 22 tweets • 5 min read
Fight the Oligarchs - Tax the Rich - Tax Billionaires Out of Existence - It really is that simple
Oligarchs, and the politicians in their pockets, are out of control. We need to stop them.
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As most people know, I mainly commentate on the climate and ecological crisis, everything to do with the natural world, along with social justice, because climate justice = social justice.
But it is impossible to address any of this, with oligarchs undoing everything.
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Mar 26 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
One thing is for certain, the current leadership of the Labour Part, lied their way into power, they are fraudsters. It's not just their treatment of the sick and disabled, we couldn't have anticipated when people voted for them.
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Of course, the big one for me, is rowing back on Labour's climate commitments, which were already pathetically inadequate.
Then there is the clear anti-nature position of Starmer's government.
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Mar 26 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
That global change is climate change, and given the complete lack of either Keir Starmer, or any other government taking it seriously, there is no wonderful future of economic growth.
Climate change is not something that is going to hit us in the late 21st Century, but now.
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As former UK government Chief Scientist, @Sir_David_King makes clear we have to take urgent and radical action now, or there will be very serious consequences for our civilization, like it collapsing.
"Living standards for all UK families are set to fall by 2030, with those on the lowest incomes declining twice as fast as middle and high earners"
This should be obvious to anyone, with their eyes open.
@Keir_Starmer and co, are selling a lie.
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The empirical evidence, shows that the mindless pursuit of economic growth, just leaves the majority of people worse off, with only the wealth of the very richest, growing. That's been the consistent patter of the last 20 years.
It is now apparent, that Starmer and his cronies, are controlled by the same think tanks, oligarchs, press barons, that controlled the Tories. Virtually identical, inexplicable policy. Against reversing Brexit for instance.
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Reneging on climate agreements, and allowing fossil fuel interests to continue their operations. Supporting anti-democratic protest legislation, suppression of peaceful climate protest, and protests against genocide. Same genocide apologies.
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Mar 18 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
@DrFrancesRyan The rationalizations for this policy, is totally disingenuous and specious i.e. superficially plausible, but actually fallacious.
This is pure sophistry, false argument, designed to try and make the socially unacceptable, look acceptable.
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@DrFrancesRyan As a long time commentator on the climate and ecological crisis, I am well versed in this style of false argument. Those justifying this action, know very well that their arguments are false.
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Mar 17 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
I want to entirely endorse what @owenjonesjourno says here. In the last 50+ years, in an attempt to understand the ecological and climate crisis, and our failure to address it, I have done a massive amount of reading and thinking, and what Owen says, is THE explanation.
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All the world's major problems now, can be firmly laid at the door of the Western European history of colonialism, extractivism, and their whole perceived sense of superiority.
You see, Western European culture, wasn't really superior, that was delusion. It was ignorant.
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Mar 13 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Let me say something very controversial, but true.
There is no such thing as "clean energy" i.e. an energy source, which has no adverse impacts. The concept of "clean energy", is an Orwellian distortion of truth and reality.
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The primary reason we are facing a biodiversity crisis, the systematic destruction of life on Earth, is the availability of cheap energy, which allows natural resources/systems, to be over-exploited.
It's difficult to know what to make of this. You can commend France for being remarkably candid, but condemn them for being utterly delusional, in thinking that a country called France could exist at 4C of warming, and that it is possible to adapt to it.
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For a very long time, at risk of falsely being accused of being an alarmist, I have been trying to warn, that well before we got to these theoretical high levels of warming, our civilizations would have collapsed and a large proportion of the population would have starved.
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Mar 11 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
I just want to clarify a few points I've made about the Trump regime, our leadership in general, and political analysis, especially in the media i.e. I can't believe how bad it is.
There is a regular failure to understand what will happen in the future, when it can be seen.
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I have been very critical of all ideology, but especially neoliberal, and right wing ideology. Ideology, being an interconnected set of ideas, that guides political policy.
My first objection, is that it is detached from physical and ecological reality.
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Mar 11 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"‘Trumpcession’ fears"
I like it, "Trumpcession". It's only just started, barely started. The one thing we know for absolutely certain, is that Trump doesn't learn from experience, and correct his mistakes. He goes into deep denial, and blames others.
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I think there's deep denial, even from the so called liberal media, about just how bad it is going to get, and what a total clusterfuck, Trump is going to create. #TrumpClusterFuck
I suspect this denial is because of being wedded to economic growth.
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Mar 11 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
If people think the stock market is crashing now #stockmarketcrash, just wait until Trump's idiocy really starts unravelling and sinks in. When investors come to realize that Trump has absolutely no idea what he's doing. That Trump is just making up shit as he goes along.
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The most dangerous notion, that most political analysts seem to have fallen for, is that Trump and those around them, have some grand plan, that they know exactly what they are doing, and it will happen, and unfold like they want.
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Mar 7 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This is just a quick thread to explain why there is a total refusal by the establishment in the UK to ban lead shotgun shot for shooting game birds, because even conservationists, don't seem to understand the reason why.
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In most of the world there are some sorts of bans and restrictions on using lead shot in shotguns to shoot game birds and waterfowl, because lead shot is highly toxic, but not in the UK*. Here I will explain the dynamic, that blocks this action.
The defining feature of the Trump regime, will be:
"When the flag drops, the bullshit stops".
The way to destroy a psychopath like Trump, is to put him in a position of power, where he can do all the things, he said he could do.
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Unlike Trump's first term in office, where he surrounded himself with rational, experienced and competent people, who held him back, this time Trump has surrounded himself with MAGA yes men, and fellow unhinged ideologues, psychopaths and oligarchs.
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Mar 4 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
The world is in a complete mess politically. Whilst this crisis has been triggered by the absolute idiocy of the Trump regime, the complete inability of global leaders to respond to Trump's madness, demonstrates that it is a much deeper problem than just Trump.
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To those of us with our eyes open, the failure of our global leadership, to produce any sort of coherent response to the climate and ecological emergency, which is an existential threat to our civilization, proves there has been a lack of leadership, for a long time.
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