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@PriyamvadaGopal Musk will be as insufferable as he will be dangerous once Trump takes office

Somebody's feeling very important. Yeah, that's not how it works, dear.

@JustStop_Oil This wasn't a protest by farmers though so much as it was a protest by landowners and those who support their interests. And they weren't protesting about farming, they were protesting about inheritance tax

Why would Just Stop Oil march with farmers? 🤔 juststopoil.org/2024/11/20/why…

@johncusack Musk will probably push Trump down a flight of stairs at the earliest opportunity so as to get his guy Vance elected President. The broligarchy's plan to dismantle the US can then get underway seriously

@SteB777 @threadreaderapp Did you see Carole Cadwalladr's from today's Guardian? I think you two are singing from the same hymn sheet theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@threadreaderapp unroll

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. 1/🧵

@SteB777 I like this sentiment from David Graeber re direct action, which is all we have left

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. 1/🧵

@GeorgeMonbiot I will make an effort to spend more time on Bluesky, though I have concerns that site will head in the direction as Twitter has. This site is broken. I only ever check in here for a few accounts. I'm looking forward to attending your talk with Frankie on Monday, incidentally

I'm mostly posting now on Bluesky: @georgemonbiot.bsky.social I'll stop using Ex altogether on January 20th. See you in the other place.

@Jonathan_K_Cook There will soon come a point where governments say they simply cannot afford to rebuild or compensate people for climate induced losses. The public will be left on their own. We're presently in a period of rapid climate and societal disintegration. Now is a time of monsters

'We are only halfway to the new normal.’ Media Lens on how Spain's floods gave us a taste of a future of commonplace catastrophes – one in which the current pain, loss and trauma of the Spanish people come to engulf us too. More here: medialens.org/2024/spains-cl…

@ZombiePanther2 The Democrats and Republicans are two sides of the same coin. They have been for a very long time

@GeorgeMonbiot I think the Germany, UK and US should also be dragged before the ICC as accomplices. These countries' tired argument that Israel can do no wrong because the Jews were once themselves persecuted holds no weight, legally or ethically

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

@SteB777 What a beautiful part of the world you live in. And a great photo of it

Fenns and Whixall Moss NNR, afterglow, this evening.

@EliotJacobson Will temps ever drop below a 1.5C yearly average from this point onward?

@JessicaLexicus Literally, no one at a high level in government seems to be planning seriously on civilisation collapse occurring in the near term, certainly not that I am aware

@SteB777 @ClimateBen We don't have a plan for collapse. We're in a car being driven by a lunatic towards a solid brick wall, and we're not even trying to wrest control of the wheel away from him and hit the brakes. We're just hoping it will all be okay. It is nonsense, irrational thinking

@ClimateBen Good question, but as no one is actually looking into, I supposed the strategy is just not to think about it. threadreaderapp.com/thread/1856265…

What makes one think global warming of 2°C and rising within 9 to 13 years is "survivable"?

@SteB777 @KevinClimate These venal politicians are looking to line their pockets whilst the getting is good, and hoping their wealth will protect them when everything collapses. Their rational for doing this and facilitating the collapse of the biosphere is that should they not do it somebody else will

@KevinClimate It does not seem to be about a global agreement, on limiting emissions, as the prospects of that happening seem to be zero. I'm genuinely baffled as to its real purpose i.e. the motivations of the politicians backing it. 2/2

As the COP29 jamboree provides 2024s fortnight of rhetoric&inaction, so the Dutch courts play their part in reinforcing the fossil-fuelled status quo. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Bad things happen because good people stay quiet. Is it time for senior legal officers to set precedents?

@GeorgeMonbiot Elite interests, be that Big Oil or oligarchs, won regardless of who got elected, as they've been in charge of both main parties since the 70s. I agree with you entirely that it was striking how little attention the environmental polycrises we face featured in this election

7. The last thing the fossil fuel companies wanted was a big discussion about how their fortunes would change if Trump won. So they kept it under the radar, and the issue scarcely featured in the election. But, in my view, this is what the whole show was really about.

1. Who really won the US election? The fossil fuel companies and other polluting industries. We scarcely heard about them during the election campaign, which is just how they like it. Almost everything we *did* hear about was a distraction from the real agenda. 🧵

@HootinRootin @GeorgeMonbiot @DaleVince @IntoTheWildPod George and Dale are categorically not singing from the same page, which anyone who has paid the slightest attention to this dispute would know. Dale has been evasive and disingenuous, and is steadfastly refusing to have a public debate because he knows he'll come off badly

Hi @DaleVince, we're still waiting for you to accept the invitation, extended by @IntoTheWildPod, to debate heat pumps and biogas with me. You said you wanted it. But now that it's on the table you've gone strangely quiet. What's stopping you? Thanks.

@SteB777 There's no way we're going to avoid collapse, and the sooner we all accept and start preparing for that eventuality the better

We need to shift to a cooperative mode of society, to prevent the collapse of our civilization, and the mass starvation that would follow - due to the forthcoming impacts of the climate and ecological emergency.