I realize that many others have suggested this, which is why I am suggesting it, and it could work. However, it is the implementation, which will need to be worked out, for it to succeed.

I cannot see it working with conventional political parties.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1884951890686882121

Most conventional mainstream political parties, seem to be vehemently opposed to wealth taxes, for reasons that are not all obvious, aside from neoliberal doctrine, which they all deny having, and they have too much affinity with the top 1%.
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I'm now starting to think, that the only solution to the predicament we are in, is a highly focused campaign to place progressive taxes on the top 1%, with the highest levels being on the very top, the billionaires, to tax them out of existence.
1/🧵 Without removing the malignant influence of the oligarchs, and their ability to corrupt and manipulate our societies, with their stupendous wealth, we'll only ever get the oligarch agenda. Then afterwards, we'll be on a level playing field, without this manipulation.
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Let me explain the rationale of this statement, because I mean this absolutely.

It was always the case, that politicians, claiming they wanted to balance the pursuit of economic growth, with a responsible attitude to addressing the climate and ecological crisis, were lying.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1884893785080955318

Since politicians made these pledges at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, we have seen those obsessed with economic growth, make no attempt whatsoever, to reduce emissions, to stop the ongoing biodiversity decline. They make a few token gestures, that make no overall difference.
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As @Keir_Starmer and @RachelReevesMP are obsessed about economic growth, to the point of excluding all else, I thought I would give non-economist's view of why their arguments, are utterly bizarre and fallacious.
1/🧵 The arguments of Starmer and Reeves, tacitly assume that other politicians/parties, have neglected economic growth.

In the whole postwar period, every mainstream politician has been obsessed economic growth, to the exclusion of everything else. It's hardly a new idea.
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The problem I see with the dynamic I've described here, is there appears to be no name for it. No concept to identify, what is a serious intellectual trick, an act of deceit, to manipulate the public. And no one can say what it is, even if they recognize it.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1884346831032729676

This crude trick, involves dishonestly, pretending you are not aware of the evidence for something, and just refusing to acknowledge it. It is simply, bare-faced lying. What makes it worse, is the pretence there is some sort of reason or logic to it.
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I want to create a thread about the most serious, problem in the thinking of our culture, which I haven't really seen anyone describe. It can best be described as a dynamic. I'm scrabbling for words to describe it. It facilitates climate crisis denial, genocide, and more.
1/🧵 What I'm talking about, is where denial of something by a powerful group or clique, can send our whole society off in an entirely dangerous direction, creating a whole new, malignant reality.

I call the start of this denial, a hinge or pivot, around which the denial starts.
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This is an illustration of how the @BBC and the media in general are gaslighting the public about the climate crisis.

Somehow in an article about the stormy weather impacting Britain, they don't mention climate, let alone climate change, once.

1/🧵bbc.co.uk/weather/articl… There are lots of references to "suggests February will be around two and half times more likely to be milder than average", "December was warmer than average", but not one mention of climate, at all. I did a word search.
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This is a list of recognized Psychopathic Traits, put together by a recognized authority on psychopathy.

Just see how many of these you can tick for Donald Trump, from his outward known behaviour.

1/3 psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/psyc… I'm not trying to diagnose Trump, because you need far more background, I'm not qualified and the presence of psychopathic traits, doesn't necessarily make someone a psychopath, they might be more of a narcissist. Nevertheless, these are objective observable traits. @DanCady
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@DoctorVive This is an excellent article, but I go much further. I say these actuaries are totally underestimating the likelihood of total system collapse, and the economy collapsing to nothing, in the near future. No one is studying the stability of our system.

1/pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… @DoctorVive I am not trying to be alarmist, but I noted a complete gap in expert thinking, many decades ago. The robustness, and stability of our whole system, is taken for granted. As if at best, it would only slowly decline. There is little understanding it is a process.
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THE HUGE problem of our modern society today, is rich and powerful people, can say and do the most deranged and dangerous things, and it'll be ignored, simply because of who they are.

If ordinary people did what the rich and powerful did, they'd be detained for public safety.
1/ People make excuses for them. The richest man in the world, does a blatant Nazi salute, twice, and people make excuses for him.

They say it wasn't really a Nazi salute, but a Roman salute, which is not an actual thing.

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Where do I start with this moronic, low IQ diatribe from Trump?
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https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1883074945212965259

Trump is back to lying and inventing that Finland clean the forest floors. The last time he came out with this outrageous invented lie, in 2018, the Finnish president said he never had this conversation with Trump, and no such thing takes place.

2/7bbc.com/news/world-eur…

The attitude of @Keir_Starmer and @RachelReevesMP seems to me, to be outright climate crisis denial. They seem to be in total denial of the scientific evidence.

I have repeatedly pleaded for the term climate crisis denier to be used, instead climate change denier.
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https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1882535751520535034

By climate crisis denier, I mean anyone who denies there is a climate crisis, an existential threat to our civilization, unless we take urgent and rapid action to start rapidly reducing our carbon emissions, in line with the @IPCC_CH's SR15.

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"Economic growth is more important to the UK government than net zero, Rachel Reeves has said ..."

This is not only what is wrong, with the UK Labour government, but how neoliberalism, rots your brain.

1/🧵theguardian.com/business/2025/… The primary thinking error of @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP and all the neoliberals, is that by ignoring the climate crisis, that they will somehow create economic growth in the future. Actually, climate change they're ignoring, will kill future economic growth.
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I think most people gather what I am trying to say here, but I will clarify it.

The reelection of the grossly unfit for public office, Trump, has been facilitated, by the behaviour of our other leadership through time, by their own crimes, and their neoliberalism.
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https://twitter.com/SteB777/status/1881776039053189605

Neoliberalism, treats people in a horrible dehumanized way, as if they are only consuming units, in an economy, not real people. Remember, Trump is also an extreme neoliberal, he just pretends to be different. He is primarily a liar and a conman.

2/9theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/…

The president of the United States is a convicted felon, and adjudicated rapist, who'd numerous other pending cases against for serious offences, which he had no credible defence/defense. He's only not in prison, because he's president.

This is a mockery of the rule of law.
1/🧵 Clearly some people, are above the law, and it questions the moral authority of the US Government to prosecute anyone, when the executive in charge of the government is a repeat criminal offender, using his office to avoid appropriate punishments and further prosecution.
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@ProfSteveKeen Excellent, but I'd add a cautionary note about impacts. Most scientific studies, make the mistake of focusing on when our civilization becomes physically difficult, and don't take into account that our civilization could collapse well before then.
1/ @ProfSteveKeen I hardly need to explain to someone as yourself, that for our system to work, political, social and economic, that a lot of things have to remain in balance. If there is a weak point, in anyone of these critical relationships, it could theoretically bring the whole lot down.
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The new Labour administration have been a massive disappointment, not just about river pollution, but the whole climate and ecological emergency, which they deny i.e. they deny it is a crisis, requiring emergency reaction.
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https://twitter.com/RobGMacfarlane/status/1880385907297251505

To support the above statement:

"SIR KEIR STARMER I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists"

2/thesun.co.uk/news/30853358/…

It came to me the other day, how one psychological concept, groupthink, explains the whole current situation created by the unaddressed climate and ecological crisis.

We need to understand what this means for us.

1/🧵en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink However, to truly understand it, we have to understand what the group is we are dealing with here. In fact, it isn't a single group, but a nest of highly interlinked groups, from leading politicians, mainstream economists, oligarchs, corporations, and the controlling 1%.
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This incoming Trump regime, will produce chaos and mayhem, because of their science denial, and other denial of evidence and fact. They will become very unpopular, like the previous Trump administration.
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https://twitter.com/runningfootman/status/1880495231738802425

However, the problem is Trump only got in power, because the Biden administration, was itself, selling the public out to vested interests oligarchs. Neither the centre, or the extreme right, are representing the public interest.
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After the tragic LA wildfires, we've seen the usual fossil fuel industry sponsored, extreme right wing spreaders of disinformation blame it onto arson, not sweeping the woods etc, and anything but the main contributing factor, climate change.
1/ We saw the same thing after the tragic Valencia floods, and lots of other flooding events. According to these propagandists, it wasn't climate change related extreme rainfall, but the failure to clean the drains, and dredge the rivers.
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I received what I regard as a very threatening email, meant to intimidate me, yesterday, from the Principal Manager, Natural England, West Midlands Team. I wouldn't normally reveal emails like this, but I feel I have to, to nip this in the bud.
1/🧵 The tacit implication that I might be being threatening, abusive etc, is entirely made up and slanderous.

All I had said I was going to do, was to honestly, truthfully, respectfully blog the details of what has been happening.
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