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@WIRED @WiredUK @BillGates @StevenLevy Did everyone forget his friendship with Epstein?

@BillGates isn’t doomscrolling. The tech behemoth who warned of an imminent pandemic in 2015 is now doggedly upbeat, not just about pandemics but also the state of the world. And his wit, @StevenLevy discovered, is as sharp as ever. wired.trib.al/9ThQqCn 1/13

@markets What the fuck is net zero oil?

Occidental plans to sell what it calls net-zero oil to a unit of South Korea’s biggest oil refiner trib.al/dBLEGAv

@Nigel_Farage @TiceRichard @PowerNotPoverty Why are you targeting green policies rather than the oil companies who are making record profits, even before their price hikes?

We need a referendum on the net zero madness. I am excited to launch a new campaign with @TiceRichard called @PowerNotPoverty. The Richmond Greens don't have to worry about paying their gas bills — but millions of ordinary people do. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@DanielPipes @gabrielboric What happened in 1973? What happened that made it 'end very badly'??? Please tell me, I'm dying to know

My sympathies go to the 45% of Chileans who voted against the left-wing extremist, @GabrielBoric, just elected as Chile's next president. - Chile has gone down this road before (in 1970-73) & it ended very badly - Venezuela provides a more recent example of socialist catastrophe

After a year of record heatwaves, wildfires and floods, Labour's refusal to even debate the Green New Deal policies needed to respond to the climate crisis is a scandal – and damning of Keir Starmer's leadership. tribunemag.co.uk/2021/09/labour…

🚨 BREAKING: Labour staff & the Conference Arrangements Committee have ruled our Conference motion out of order. 🚨 It’s an anti-democratic move to silence members, making a mockery any commitment to bold climate action. We’ll be opposing the decision by all means necessary. ✊

@wheatpond Congratulations, I think this thread may be the stupidest thing I have ever read 🎉

@HumanProgress So the solution to the climate crisis is eating zoo animals?

Scan the newspapers or watch the evening news, and you’ll quickly realize that environmental concerns are most keenly felt in rich countries, the citizens of which typically enjoy the best environmental quality. humanprogress.org/why-some-envir…

@ManuelOhi @tonetalk @jon_trickett I think you hit the nail on the head. The free market is the problem.

@tonetalk @jon_trickett But let us drill down: was she trading something considered illegal? Is she into some criminal enterprise? The answer is No. The morality question is something else. Free market.

Are we sure this is not an April Fool? ◉ On the day the minimum wage has been increased by a paltry 19p, it has emerged that the CEO of a Betting firm was paid the highest salary every recorded - £421m ◉ £421 million! Maybe we are all April Fools to allow this to continue?

@JuliaHB1 @GusPark11 @adamndsmith What about the people who died of dysentery in the world wars? Or the civilians who just so happened to be hit by bombs as they slept? I think you need to clarify who and who isn't worthy of a minute's silence - maybe a list would help us understand? 🤔

@GusPark11 @adamndsmith It's not a pin head at all. I don't make minute's silences for victims of terror attacks either. Being terribly unlucky - as any of us could be - isn't the same thing as the bravery of those who fight and die in wars to protect our freedoms

Aren't we going to bother with a minute's silence for all the many hundreds of thousands of people who died of things other than Covid this past year then? I guess their lives don't matter 🤷🏻‍♀️

@HumanProgress I don't think tweeting out oil-funded climate-skeptical think tanks is an especially good look: theguardian.com/environment/20…

A new study called "Impacts of Climate Change: Perception and Reality," from a former IPCC reviewer, Indur M. Goklany, shows is that not all is lost. Despite what you hear and see in the media, there are a lot of positive environmental trends going on. thegwpf.org/content/upload…

@AdityaRajKaul (Filmmaker here) She has green on her top/legs (plants are green too), blue on her mask, and red on the floor, which means that it's unlikely to be chroma keyed, as that covers most of the colours used for 'green' screens.

Not sure about the authenticity of the video. Some claiming it was shot with a Croma background. Hence I have posted the original link of the video above which is on Facebook.

A woman did her regular aerobics class out in open without realizing that a coup was taking place in #Myanmar. A Military convoy reaching the parliament can be seen behind the woman as she performs aerobics. Incredible!

@deborahlipstadt Antisemitism... from white supremacists... surely not? 😱

Note the t-shirt: Camp Auschwitz. There is antisemitism on the left, for sure, but it there on the right too.

@HumanProgress What about Brazil then lol?

Icelandic forests are growing again, and have been for some time. Reforestation appears to have coincided with GDP growth, just as the environmental Kuznets curve predicts. humanprogress.org/reforestation-…

Preparing to do the @TimesRadio paper review at 10.30am, and working my way through Boris Johnson's back catalogue of over-promises on coronavirus. It's crazy. The PM is pathologically addicted to making big stupid promises he can't keep.

@Andrew_Adonis Didn't realise that every person in every country had to be pro-American Andrew

She is married to Tory MP John Penrose, who sits on the advisory board of think tank 1828 which calls for "the NHS to be replaced by an insurance system and for Public Health England to be scrapped. Well. That's stage 1 completed... bbc.co.uk/news/health-53…

The UK has achieved the worst of both worlds: the largest recession of any G7 country as well as the highest excess death rate in Europe. newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

@ayynicko What show's this from?

@Lily_Alimi Ah the conflating of anti-capitalism and antisemitism continues - almost as if you're weaponising it for your own gain?

Ash couldn’t appear more disingenuous if she tried. Perhaps she could stop sharing conspiracies on evil elites/ruling classes (common theme within antisemitism) and instead channel the same energy into meaningful action against antisemitism. #NoSafeSpaceForJewHate