Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake).
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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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Nov 20 • 20 tweets • 3 min read
When those like @RogerHallamCS21 have warned of potentially billions of death from climate change, and others warned of civilization collapse, this has been dismissed, on the grounds it is not supported by science.
There is no science about this. It's never been studied.
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It may come as a surprise to people, but no one has even attempted to study, how vulnerable our societies are to civilization collapse. That's why there is no science to support it. Don't take my word for it.
I was into rewilding, long before the term was ever invented.
I grew up in the English countryside, before there were generous EU subsidies for farming. There were many small abandoned paddocks, and other corners of agricultural land. Abandoned farms and houses.
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As a child, I explored these places, and was totally focused on the natural world. So I was fully aware, that if we just left an area alone, nature would rapidly re-introduce itself, takeover, and biodiversity thrived.
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Nov 18 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Let's cut through the waffle in the article, and look at the reality.
Firstly, and most importantly, it means no government of any major power, has made any attempt whatsoever, to stick to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. They never even tried.
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The @IPCC_CH SR15, required virtually halving emissions by 2030, and it looks like emissions will increase, not decrease by 2030. Yes, we could have halved emissions by 2030, but no major government, even attempted to.
After writing my last couple of threads, it has become clear to me, that the single action, we need more than anything, is to be hyperfocused on challenging those in power, to explain their position over the climate and ecological crisis.
It's the one thing we need.
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This will not be an easy task to achieve, because those in power are so used to, and so able, to just avoid answering crucial questions.
That is why we need to get creative, and lay the ground, where they are compelled to explain their positions, and justify their attitude.
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Nov 16 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
What I was trying to say here, is if you have to campaign, to get our leaders to take a clear and present existential threat to our civilization seriously, then campaigning alone, is self-evidently, not the best way to address this problem.
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So what I am saying is not lost - I need to make this very clear at the beginning.
Campaigning, is what you do, when people have a choice, as to what option to adopt.
The climate and ecological crisis, has never been an issue of this type.
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Nov 16 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
When I said, I wasn't into climate action campaigning, there was some misunderstanding about what I meant.
Essentially, what I meant, is that if you have to campaign for action, to prevent global catastrophe, and civilization collapse, then there's something serious wrong.
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Once the scientific reality, behind the climate and ecological crisis is conveyed, if our leadership don't get it, there is something seriously wrong with their perception, their thinking, and their grasp of reality.
That's the problem, not arguing harder.
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Nov 15 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
I broadly agree with @rahmstorf. The right wing media are the worst. But all the media has played a part in this, as all the mainstream media, is to some extent controlled by corporations and oligarchs, who they dare not go against.
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This, right, centre, left (mainstream left) thing, is all on the surface. Deeper down, they all sing from the neoliberal doctrine hymn sheet, which is what enables, populist liars, like Donald Trump, to pretend they will fight against a liberal elite stitching things up.
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Nov 13 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
Because I have been engaging with non-environmentally aware people, for over 50 years, I have fully realized just how little environmental awareness, penetrates the mainstream.
I've generally avoided environmentalists, because of this.
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One of the first things I noticed, when I attended meetings of environmentalists, was just how detached they were from the rest of society. They mistakenly thought everyone was aware of what they were aware of.
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Nov 13 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
'Donald Trump’s pledge to exit the Paris climate agreement is “something of grave, grave concern” to climate-vulnerable countries'
"Climate-vulnerable countries" implies some countries are not vulnerable to climate impacts.
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Yes, I am fully aware that some low lying island states, are vulnerable to complete inundation by rising sea levels.
However, it is profoundly mistaken, to see other countries as not so vulnerable because they do not face total inundation.
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