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3. “That will also limit the growing severity of weather extremes and long-term sea level rise across the world.”
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2. Richard Allan, a climate scientist at the University of Reading, said the long-term prognosis for Arctic sea ice was grim.
“The region continues to rapidly heat up, and can only be saved with rapid and massive cuts to greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.
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2. “If this current ‘engine’ breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater extremes in certain regions, and accelerated global warming due to a reduction in the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink,” Prof Bishakhdatta Gayen.
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2. 80 World War Twos. And a related number of holocausts - the genocides which are inevitable in the context of such levels of mass death.
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13. The centre will not hold. The Guardian newspaper is guilty of mass murder.
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12. It will never stop. It is a crime that kills more than any other crime. It will go on forever.
"There is no greater crime" as a lawyer told me. And so, it is. And as such there can only be complicity or resistance. There is no third option.
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11. But this is not about slavery. It is not about something which has happened in the past. Something done and finished. The killing of those 4 billion people is about to happen. It is in the process of being locked in. And then it will not stop.
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10. No doubt, if and when this article becomes the scandal it is, these liberals might consider making an apology, maybe giving a symbolic right of reply, even some compensation, a reparation even.
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9. It reports on it every day of the week. It knows perfectly well the reality we face, but it refuses to act. Its complicity is beyond contempt.
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8. The killing happens because the rich think that are "worth it". The Guardian
thinks it can get away with it. Worst, it claims it cares about those who were killed long ago, so that this can be a cover for its killing today. So, it can be a bystander and risk nothing. It knows what is going on.
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7. They do not care because those to be killed are not white, they are not British, they are not "us". Nothing has changed because the power has not changed. Those with power kill because they can get away with it. Because they think they "deserve" to be rich while billions die for their privilege.
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6. Why was this not the front page headline? Why was it not the top "story" of the year, the decade, the century?
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5. Why the hell did the Guardian not make its headline about the biggest crime in the history of humanity- the killing of 4 billion of the poorest people on the planet, rather than the economic cost to those responsible for this criminality?
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4. And now, like 250 years ago, the liberal press reinforces this obscenity by focusing on the financial interests of its own class rather than the criminality of the diabolic neglect.
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3. Again, the obscenity here is not just the racist pathology of considering that black lives are disposable, but also that the main concern here is not the deaths themselves but how much money this is going to cost the western middle classes.
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2/2. Sign up for Revolution today. Look, the worst possible thing imaginable is going to happen to your values in the next 10 years if we don’t get our shit organized, right? So you have an absolute moral obligation to look at nonfascist alternatives.
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4/4. ... this rise along with warming temperatures would have serious implications for globally vital Atlantic ocean currents." Live Science
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If the sheet were to melt completely, the accompanying sea level rises would cause devastation for the billions who live along the world's coasts, and ...
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2/4 ... committing us to the drowning of coastal towns and cities.
https://rogerhallam.com/scientists-prize-neutrality-that-doesnt-cut-it-any-more-in-2025-they-must-fully-back-the-climate-movement-2/ With Prof Bill McGuire, climate scientist.
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2/3 Look, the worst possible thing imaginable is going to happen to your values in the next 10 years if we don’t get our shit organized, right? You have an absolute moral obligation to look at nonfascist alternatives.
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3/3 “These forests are carbon sinks. They store carbon everywhere, worldwide, & if they go up in flames, [for] the forest to grow back & to take back that CO2 into the soil again, to the trees, takes 40-60 years. ” Lennard de Klerk, lead researcher at Initiative on Greenhouse Gas Accounting of War.
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3/3 Sounds dramatic, but look at history. When food gets too expensive, people don’t just sit around moaning about it. They protest. They riot. There’s a reason the phrase “bread and circuses” exists – when a government can’t keep its people fed, things get messy." The Independent.
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2/3 Only a broad revolutionary force combining alternative governmental institutions and massive street movements will overcome the suicidal regimes that presently control our lives.
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2/3 Only a broad revolutionary force combining alternative governmental institutions and massive street movements will overcome the suicidal regimes that presently control our lives.
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2/2 The question is whether Britain’s judiciary is similarly capable of making accurate legal judgements on the prospect of 4 billion avoidable deaths over the coming decades.
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2/2 "In the UK, which ranked 12th in the world by area of peatland, 41% fell in protected areas ... However, about 80% of the bogs in the UK were already degraded by draining, overgrazing and burning." Guardian
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2/2 Sign up to my monthly strategy talk to join the community. It's time for Revolution.
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But there is something else going on which explains why semi-authoritarian regimes like the UK are most vulnerable to the civil resistance methodology – mass civil disobedience enacted day after day. Read more at https://rogerhallam.com/repression-is-the-best/
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Action is worth a thousand words – it’s so true. Seeing is believing. So the harder they push the more the backfiring potential. This is not deterministic – it doesn’t happen every time with everyone – but the odds are high.
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This for instance works in a simple case of seeing others you know getting arrested – then in a group discussion later you are far more likely to sign up to engage in civil disobedience to the point of arrest yourself.
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This can be conscious, subconscious (grudging respect) or arguably unconscious. In principle the greater the aggression, violence and/or punishment – the greater the sacrifice – the greater the moral attraction. This is backfiring.