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Openly but to a private audience. He's smart enough to write books that sell, and I figure he's smart enough to keep his mouth shut usually about his true opinion of CCS.
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"The Venom of Casterbridge"?
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#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateAction #GlobalWarming #MentalResilience
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It'll be interesting to see what comes next and whether anybody can build on this precedent.
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Yes, but how did they do that? Do Scandinavians make good governments when Anglo-Saxons struggle?
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Seems that pretending you are green was just a nice-to-have. Meanwhile, back to business as usual.
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As you wish. Hopefully you don't need reminded that the bigger fight is the causes of mis- and disinfo, as per Asif Kapadia. That and our response to it as an organisation is top of the agenda at our EcoCounts meeting tonight 😟
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If you'd like me to go into detail on the other questions, I'd much prefer email. Since you are local it would be great to organise something in person. Alternatively I'll see if I can find anything on our website that answers your questions already.
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Your last point: the carbon accounts would significantly simplify the emissions scopes protocol, which is something business really needs. We want to show there is a package that addresses emissions reduction, climate justice & business needs. Our EcoCounts group aims to show it is not difficult.
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OK lots of questions and all worth looking into. I think the Coca Cola is doing a little bit of greenwash there - they are supporting a white paper investigation in carbon allowances, whatever "supporting" means.
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It's depressing. Facts just don't count anymore. CCS is the biggest IMHO. This is where the EcoCore concept really inspires me, because it will stop the greenwash. Greenwash will be irrelevant when people/bizz have to pay for carbon or go broke, whether it's CO2 from cement or CH4 from cows.
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The public agree, but are they as influential as the big tech lobbyists? That is the question.
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That's interesting, I don't have that issue. I'm not saying I find it easy, it might be that I don't even try. I think the traditional political left-right spectrum is no longer as relevant as a new spectrum of fact vs lies. I'd vote for anyone who promises to do something about 2073 🤯
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Guess it depends on how the cultural narrative is formed. Some sources are hugely influential, others not so. And at the moment the whole cultural evolution thing is getting killed by social media feeding us all misinformation and greenwash.
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One thing that would really help pull us back from being doomed is for social media & mis- & disinformation to come back in line with reality. However the tech Broligarchy seem to rule that out. Cheap renewables won't help if wind turbines are banned because it fits the narrative.
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The last. I'm a scientist but not a climate scientist. I see lots of academic debate and the real problem is that the massive jump to over 1.5 that just happened last year was not predicted. Lots of theories, several horrific ones too. But the real debate plays out in the academic journals.
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I wonder whether the inhabitants of Ahr Tal are going to sue.
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This is imported from USA where school children are routinely exposed to fossil fuel greenwash. Since decades. Land of the free but unfortunately brainwashed. Will be interesting to see the strength of reaction in the UK. As if there wasn't enough crap going down in schools with the digital shift.
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Texas could be the testbed where climate denial is shown to be plain stupid as the $$$ flow to clean energy. Keeping my eyes on it 👀
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You say "we" but are you talking about state subsidies, regulations and policy? Is there bi-partisan support for renewables or is the GOP climate denial stronger?
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Need to see less massive exaggerations and more straight forward investment in decent infrastructure. Wild claims for renewables are as bad as the fiction generated for CCS
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Ah Palantir. When they decided to name their company after something from Tolkien, they should have just cut the pretence and named it Sauron.
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Oh I see. I had assumed that this Labour administration despite being neoliberal was not influenced quite as much by the Tufton St think tanks. Are you saying Starmer, Reeve, Cooper, Rayner & co are lettuces? Don't know anything about Reynolds.
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I consider it an abuse of power that every UK administration refuses to address the weaknesses of our political system. (Except the Cons.-Lib Dem. coalition, where it was a precondition for Cameron, so he either got power with the promise to do something, or he didn't get power at all)
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Of course power is abused - my question is more around whether it's always abused. Obviously if I had absolute power, no-one would have anything to worry about 😆
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You think there's some sort of mutual exclusivity going on there?
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A lot of the participants in EcoCounts who I work with are students or recent grads so I'll definitely push this out to them. If you are ever in London, it would be great to have you as a guest at one of our meet-ups.
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Out of interest, are you guys at UCS talking about how to define when you should say the Doomsday Clock has hit midnight? I mean, I know it puts someone out of a job, but you've got to do it.
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Limits to Growth is so inspiring now because it shows how young scientists refused to be defeated by the wave of rejection & BS that hit them after the Reagan/Thatcher neoclassical economists realised it predicted their demise - which is now in motion, along with the rest of the economy.
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I suppose I'm being naive in believing that society can rapidly implement some kind of objective measure of truth or fact that can be used throughout journalism, politics, advertising and ultimately law?
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But the free market makes all the points in the article moot. Reality is nothing's going to stop feed lot Big Meat unless the cost of carbon is internalised & paid for. Then we might not even need this discussion, because Common Ground style farming might be hit by the same costs that stop Big Meat.
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Despite a continued security presence the Jenu Kuruba have since rebuilt the shelter. They have the right under Indian and international law to live on their ancestral lands.
The Jenu Kuruba are standing firm, but the situation is tense. They need solidarity and visibility now! ➡️ Share this post.
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www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecocounts-...
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I'd like to see surviving the broligarchy converge with Varoufakis' technofeudalism.
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Yes exactly - this, this, this! People really need to wake up and smell the coffee.
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The ultimate reminder.....