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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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Jun 6 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Joe Rogan is spouting uninformed nonsense here. Yes, plants, trees, take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. However, they cannot solve the climate crisis, because of scale and other ecological dynamics. A little knowledge is dangerous without wider knowledge.
1/🧵 For a start, in most parts of the world, you don't even have to plant trees to create woodland. The land will naturally revert into woodland, if you simply stop farming it, overgrazing it, or otherwise managing it.

And herein, is the problem with this oversimplistic take.
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Jun 6 • 19 tweets • 3 min read
I want to briefly explain my position on this.

THE HUGE MISTAKE is in believing that we must come up with a better system, BEFORE we can challenge the present system. This is not how it works, or what is best.
1/ This wrongly assumes that the present system was designed, and at least some people, know how it works. Neither of these assumptions is true. No one planned the present system, and no one has got a clue, as to how it really works.
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Jun 5 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is so funny, and so predictable.

Now that Elon has dropped the Epstein bomb, Trump is going to be so triggered, that I can see this becoming an all out vindictive flame war.
1/4 Image Sure, there are far more important things in the world today.

But watching 2 of the biggest egos, and worst people in the world, try to destroy each other, will be some side relief.
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Jun 4 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
I want to create a thread to correct some of the misconceptions, and blatant misrepresentation of @GretaThunberg as she sails on the #FreedomFlotilla towards Gaza. Where people are making false assertions, and arguing out from that as if it were fact.

1/🧵threadreaderapp.com/thread/1929526… Firstly, and most importantly, @GretaThunberg has never supported terrorism, she has never supported Hamas, or said anything derogatory about Jewish people, or anything even vaguely anti-Semitic. She said "fuck Israel", because of Netanyahu's genocidal actions.
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Jun 2 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
The basis of most false argument, whether it be climate change denial, genocide denial etc, is the self-referential, circular argument. In which the speaker will make an assertion, which is at best a half-truth, likely an untruth, then argue out from it, as if it were fact.
1/6 We're all familiar with these false arguments. That there was previous climate change not caused by humans, and the climate is always changing. That the genocide in Gaza, is due to the 7 Oct attack. All these assertions are false, specious, on close examination.
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Jun 2 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
The temporary, moderate success of the political right is very simple. They are liars and conmen. They will promise all sorts of things, they can't deliver.

The world and politics is in a complete mess. The populist right are simply trying to take advantage of this.
1/🧵 They appeal to the gullible, with prejudices. It's the immigrants, coming into your countries, stealing your jobs, and subverting your culture, and old well worn strategy of the fascists from the 1920s on. Appeal to prejudices, make impossible promises.
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May 30 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Empathy isn't a bug of Western civilization, which already has serious psychopathic tendencies, caused by a lack of empathy.

What Elon seems to be frustrated about, is that traces of empathy remain, which gets in the way of the ecocidal and genocidal agenda of oligarchs.
1/🧵 Ironically, even oligarchs rely on the cooperation of other human beings, who wouldn't work for and be exploited by oligarchs, if they were as egocentric, and as selfish as the oligarchs themselves. It's just that they only want people to cooperate, when they work for them.
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May 29 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
I have been outspoken in my criticism of our political leaders, essentially all of them, for the last 33 years, who made big pledges at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit.

I want to briefly explain my hypothesis about this.

1/🧵un.org/en/conferences… Before going on, I want to make it clear that my claim that our political leaders lied, and have made one broken promise after another on climate change, isn't just my opinion. This is what @antonioguterres the UN Secretary General also says.

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May 28 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
"The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis"

This is not new, it is the story of the last 33 years.

1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20… The reason emissions keep rising and no meaningful action has been taken to address the climate and ecological emergency, since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, is the absurd refusal to change the economic model.
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May 28 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
I completely support @johnmcdonnellMP's call. Keir Starmer is a disaster for the Labour Party and the country. It is not just the nasty, neoliberal policy, he is politically incompetent, and gifting Reform an open goal.
1/🧵 Starmer's absurdly callous, position on benefits, and winter fuel payments, has allowed Nigel Farage to position Reform, as more progressive than Labour, which is of course complete and utter BS.
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May 27 • 26 tweets • 6 min read
"Tensions rise as superpowers scrap for a piece of the Arctic"

This isn't new. I tried to alert people what was going on, during the Obama regime, with all this prospecting in the Arctic, and what the tacit implications were.

1/🧵bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… What it told me, was that governments and the big corporations knew, was that climate change was going to be allowed to unfold with any attempt to stop it, and there was going to be an expected gold rush, when the ice melted.
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May 27 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
It is a nasty fossil fuel industry trope, to try and blame the public for emissions. That it is their fault, because of their consumer demand. This is a massive manipulative lie. It is outright evil, psychopathic manipulativeness.
1/🧵 Firstly, we need to establish a few facts. Only a minority of the world population, are involved in this consumption lifestyle. Less than 18% own a car, and over 80%, have never flown, or not for a long time. So 80% or more have very little to do with the emissions.
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May 26 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Are our leaders, some of the stupidest people in society. Trump has said Putin is acting crazy in Ukraine. You mean it took the thick, lying moron, 3 years to work that out, after saying Putin was smart, invading Ukraine.
1/ Then there was Putin's invasion of Ukraine, where he headed straight to Kiev, in the naive belief he was just going to roll in and take over. That was crazy.
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May 26 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
I am not simplistically blaming politicians here. They are the only people with the power in our societies to implement the necessary change, and at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and just after, they promised to take that action.
1/🧵 Often, the public gets blamed for not voting for the right politicians. This is not true. There has only very recently been a political divide on addressing the climate crisis, and 30 years ago, there was no difference.
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May 26 • 27 tweets • 5 min read
Whist I agree with @MikeBernersLee about how the owner of this platform uses it to spread disinformation, I strongly disagree, that there are better alternatives.

Elon Musk, calculatingly bought this platform, to deliberately disrupt progressive dialogue.
1/🧵 Elon Musk disliked the way Twitter was being used as a platform, for progressive dialogue, so he decided to stop and disrupt this. The same will happen to any other platform, which becomes successful in spreading dialogue about topics the oligarchs disapprove of.
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May 24 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I know I sound like a broken record, but it's impossible to reconcile what world leaders said at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, with the situation now, where it has got immeasurably worse, and they have done nothing. It's impossible, not, to conclude they were lying.
1/🧵 It's the UN Secretary General @antonioguterres saying our leaders are lying, and the last 33 years has been a litany of broken climate promises, not just me. That is right, our leaders are lying psychopaths, who are consigning us to global suicide.

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May 23 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
This is an excellent article, and it is rare to see something so informative, and so well-thought-out, in the media.

Essentially, it says that the least integrated demographic in our societies, is actually the elite, not immigrants.

1/🧵theguardian.com/commentisfree/… This is demonstrably true, a verifiable fact, and it should be obvious to anyone who thinks about it.

It also says something profound about our modern world, in that it is the elite, the oligarchs, who fund the propaganda, that fools the public into thinking it's immigrants.
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May 21 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
I want to expand on what I said with regard to this.

Imagine this was happening on land, where people could see the damage.

Here is the whole climate and ecological crisis, and its cause, in a nutshell. Out of sight, out of mind.
1/🧵 Absolutely the only way these powerful vested interests, destroying our natural systems for profit, can get away with it, is because people can't easily see or understand what is happening. It's far away, too subtle to easily see or understand.
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May 20 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
We seem to be living in the Age of Denial, where things supported by massive evidence, are simply denied by certain politicians and vested interests, even though they are incredibly serious.

The climate crisis, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are egregious examples.
1/🧵 This is far more than a post-truth world - we're not talking about subtle distortions of the truth, but outright denial. This is the active and complete and utter denial of the most serious matters that can be imagined. It can't get more serious than ecocide, and genocide.
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May 19 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
"Runaway rice prices spell danger for Japan’s prime minister as elections loom

Attempts to bring down the price of the Japanese staple have had little effect amid a cost-of-living crisis"

This is a glimpse into our climate changed future trajectory.

1/🧵theguardian.com/world/2025/may… I'm not sure how much of the current situation in Japan, is climate related, but let's get this clear, the rice harvest is seriously threatened by climate change.

However, this is not just about rice, but all harvests and food production.

2/actionagainsthunger.org.uk/our-impact/sto…
May 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@DoctorVive Exactly. Let me totally support what you say. Modern humans have been around for 2-300,000, and our close relatives, much longer. But the reason civilizations only emerged within the last 10,000 years (really about 5-6,000 years for the very first) is simple.
1/ @DoctorVive Large, complex societies i.e. civilizations, need a constant supply of grain. In other words, every year, they need a predictable harvest, with a predictable yield. Just one bad year, especially more than one, will lead to the collapse of that civilization, and it did.
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