Naturalist, Conservationist, Environmentalist and Nature Photographer (especially macro). Born at 314ppm. Woke (awake) and proud of it.
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Apr 26 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
I'd not thought about this before. But it's not just the liberal democracies, pretending that neoliberalism doesn't exist. Every government in the world keeps silent about the neoliberal doctrine, including countries you'd think could benefit, by blowing the whistle on it. 1/
Neoliberalism is a very distinct type of political, social and economic policy. There are plenty of possible other policy directions, but governments pretend there aren't, and the only answer to everything, is a neoliberal solution.
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Apr 25 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
The establishment is terrified of this new radical politics, pushing back against environmental destruction - because this is why the same powerful people who took over our civilizations, deliberately disconnected people from the natural world.
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I assert, that this is the main reason they committed actual genocide and cultural genocide against indigenous peoples. It wasn't just that they wanted to steal their land and resources. Rather, they were terrified of their culture of reverence for nature.
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Apr 23 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
I want to qualify my point here, because I remember the pre-strimmer era, and when they were first invented. I saw the first commercial one featured on Jack Hargreaves' "Out of Town", TV series in the mid-1970s. It was low powered, and didn't damage tree bark. 1/
The reason I remember it well, was in my mid-teens, and used to make pocket money, by doing gardening jobs. I was a dab hand at using a scythe and a sickle, which were all there was before strimmers, then brush cutters, for clearing tall vegetation (non mower stuff).
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Apr 22 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Here's my big political prediction. In Donald Trump's forthcoming trial, expect major outbursts from Trump, clashes with the judge in court and possible sanctions or contempt of court rulings against Trump. Trump will not be able to contain himself or his behaviour
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Trump is narcissistic, highly impulsive, and can't seem to control his behaviour. Almost certainly, this will be the first time in Trump's adult life, that he will have been forced to sit through something for weeks on end, in which he isn't in control, and can't storm off.
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Apr 22 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
@CrisisReports Superb article, and you have an excellent grasp of the situation/crisis. Only total systems change, and I do really mean changing everything about the system, will address the crisis.
If I can address this, because I've been following this situation for 50 years.
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@CrisisReports It was well understood, just over 50 years ago, that we needed total system change. Think the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment, The Limits to Growth (1972), Small is Beautiful (1973), E.F. Schumacher and far more.
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Apr 18 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
These Net Zero targets have been barely set, were not anywhere near adequate to reach actual, global Net Zero. Yet already, everywhere governments are back peddling on them. But are irrationally claiming they'll still reach Net Zero.
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This has been a consistent pattern since the 1972 UN Environment Conference in Stockholm. Governments promise action, make big promises. Then take no action at all, things get worse and worse, bringing us ever closer to global catastrophe.
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Apr 14 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I'd like to endorse this. This is a very special, but largely ignored landscape. The Mere's and Mosses area of Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, and North Wales. It's barely know. But of international and historic significance. 1/
Temporarily, after a grant, the area was recognized. But when the funding ran out, the whole amazing landscape was forgotten about. All the links and references I used to use, have disappeared from the internet. The only echoes left, are old noticeboards, disappearing. 2/
Apr 14 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
A huge thank you to @JohnRussell40 for compiling this thread, proving that these extreme, drawn out weather patterns, effecting our agriculture, are happening all over the world.
Why has no journalist, no media, compiled all these references?
This supports my thread here. Absolutely the only reason I didn't compile so many examples. Is firstly, that information already exists, just not compiled, and secondly, no matter how big the list, it wouldn't be exhaustive.
What terrifies the hell out of me about this unprecedented high rainfall over the last 18 months, and the huge impacts on British agriculture. Is the total denial, and the complete lack of joined up thinking. This is what lay behind my recent posts on this.
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None of these media reports, mention climate change or that we can expect these extreme weather events, to get worse, and carry on getting worse due to climate change. It's as if, this is just some random problem. Not a highly interconnected problem.
I have been repeatedly warning for decades that the climate and ecological crisis, could create major food shortages and threaten our civilization far earlier than predictions imply.
1/🧵theguardian.com/environment/20…
As I spelled out in this thread only 2 days ago, if extreme weather events line up around the world in any given year. Extreme rainfall in some areas, lack of rainfall in others, extreme heat in others, hurricanes, - it'd cause global food shortages.
I think we need to sound the alarm, not just about climate change itself, but if our governments, corporations, and financial institutions, have ever really committed to addressing the climate crisis. If the whole supposed campaign has been a fraud.
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Ever since the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, our governments, and big business, have supposedly been committed to addressing the climate crisis. The most obvious way to achieve this, was to reduce emissions, by phasing out fossil fuels. But our governments never committed to this.
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Apr 8 • 25 tweets • 5 min read
I have become increasingly alarmed at the totally unrealistic thinking and dialogue, surrounding the climate and ecological crisis.
This is my reason for threads on matters like blaming the human species for the climate crisis, or human driven megafauna extinctions.
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I keep seeing topics like this crop up, in discussions about the climate and ecological crisis.
They are total distractions, sending people down completely blind alleyways of thinking.
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Apr 8 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
On Saturday's Climate Crisis Club, it came up whether there was really an emergency. I couldn't address this, as my communication kept dropping out.
I want to address this here. Yes, there is an emergency, but at different levels.
3) the level at when our civilization becomes impossible.
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Apr 8 • 36 tweets • 7 min read
I want to briefly explain why I said I would close down any attempt to debate this.
Over a very long time, I have put up a series of evidence based arguments, as to the major inconsistencies in the "overkill hypothesis".
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Not once have the advocates of the "overkill hypothesis" and human induced ancient megafauna extinctions, ever attempted to even acknowledge, let address the enormous inconsistencies in the "overkill hypothesis". They just make further unsupported assertions.
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Apr 8 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
@AnnieLeymarie @LandEthics @JCSvenning As I've said, I wasn't looking for an apology. But I did tell you very clearly that I had no memory of blocking Dr Gill on this issue. You carried on saying this.
Let me explain why I said I was going to close down any attempted debate on this matter.
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@AnnieLeymarie @LandEthics @JCSvenning Over a very long time, I have put up a huge number of major inconsistencies over the "overkill hypothesis", which has more holes than a piece of Swiss cheese. It really shouldn't exist, and should never have got past peer review.
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Apr 7 • 59 tweets • 11 min read
I want to briefly outline my objection, to early humans, caused the megafauna extinction meme, but most of all, how it is deeply damaging to an understanding of the climate and ecological crisis. Highly misleading, and distorts thinking.
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I think most people are familiar with the "overkill hypothesis". This started out, that shortly after humans arrived in the Americas, the megafauna, Mammoths etc, died out, and that this was due to humans overhunting them.
@AnnieLeymarie @JCSvenning I'm certainly not going to block you. But I'm familiar enough with the evidence for and against, that anyone speculating about whether humans were involved in megafauna declines, are engaging in largely uninformed guesswork.
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@AnnieLeymarie @JCSvenning I say largely informed, because I am dumbstruck at the lack of insight those who engage in this speculation, seem to have into hunter-gatherer hunting strategies. They seem to imagine, they hunt, like modern Western Hunters.
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Apr 6 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Actually, the big difference, that @theAliceRoberts will be familiar with, is religion i.e. specifically Christianity. Its ideology, theology, had a profound effect, on the world view, that the later European nations, developed. It made them far more righteous. 1/
Whilst the later Roman Empire, adopted Christianity as its official religion, much of the theology, we now associate with Christianity took many more hundreds of years to develop and crystallize. The pagan outlook of the Roman Empire at its height, was qualitatively different.
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Apr 5 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I want to briefly illustrate how the climate and ecological crisis, is not the doing of most people alive today. Most are powerless, but some are not.
If an SUV driving consumer, gave up their lifestyle, and became an activist, nothing would happen.
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Whereas if just one of the world's richest billionaires, and there are less than 3000 billionaires, suddenly said our whole system is a complete mistake, and used their fortune to fund a campaign for system change, the impact would be massive.
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Apr 5 • 41 tweets • 7 min read
I often see climate activists, environmentalists and conservationists, express disappointment, that our species, humans are so destructive and uncaring.
This is a fundamental thinking error, a myth. It's not our species, which is like this, but our modern culture.
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In my massive, and deep review, over many decades, of why we carry on this globally suicidal path, driving the climate and ecological crisis, despite this course being well known, for over 50 years, I asked deep and searching questions as to why this was so.
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Apr 4 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
This proves people were conned by our leadership. Politicians, the media, the corporate world, all hailed the Paris 2015 Agreement, as the big breakthrough. With all their Net Zero bullshit rhetoric ever since then.
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Yet all along, the top state controlled actors and big corporations, were pushing the metal to the floor, ramping up their output and burning of fossil fuels, not working on reducing emissions, like their rhetoric pretended.
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