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Just compiling some twitter threads I've put together recently.
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Call me Mary Whitehouse but I’m just not sure the British media should keep hounding people to death.
Hi @Miatsf, are you aware of this paper which is the best attempt to quantify how many tonnes of carbon equate to one premature human death? Using the fossil fuel companies' estimates of Jackdaw & Rosebank's emissions, these facilities would kill around 60,000 people. 🧵
ALT The Mortality Cost of Carbon by R Daniel Bressler from Nature Communications, 29th July 2021
That's 60,000 people killed by heat alone. It doesn't include additional deaths from related causes like malnutrition, malaria, dengue, flooding, climate-linked conflict...
And it's based on the fossil fuel companies' estimates of emissions, which the regulator says are too low.
I'm afraid you cannot "take the heat" out of killing this many human beings - not to mention other animals - and nor should you. Humanity's future depends on leaving fossil fuels in the ground.
Hopefully this gives you a sense of why Jackdaw and Rosebank are a redline for many of us. If you approve them, it will leave a moral stain that you will never be able to scrub off.
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They don’t get it do they?
This and Rosebank are moral stains they will never be able to scrub off, not unlike Starmer’s “Israel does have that right”.
ALT Guardian: Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails £2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
I can’t believe In writing this but have a listen to the clips I’ve collated below and tell me it’s not true.
ALT BBC NEWS HAVE BEEN MORE OR LESS OPENLY LOBBYING FOR NEW OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN THE NORTH SEA says the text over an image of Lincolnshire, Belgium and Holland devastated by floods in 2050.
Tim Stanley wrote the same article in the same newspaper in 2021. It fell on deaf ears. Clearly there are very few true conservatives left on the right.
Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron and many Tories understood that climate change is real. ‘ Heatdomes’ over the US and Europe: the threat to Bordeaux. A brave article that Kemi will hate. Climate change is real – and the Right needs to get serious about it telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07…
Bizarrely and disgustingly, the BBC have been lcampaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. I’ve been collecting examples and I asked former journalist for the billionaire media Steve Tooze to explain what’s going on here.
A former tabloid journalist lays out the receipts: @BBCNews are more or less openly campaigning for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea - under the influence of the billionaire-owned media. 🧵🛢️🍿
Part 1 of 4.
Reading this thread again I'm struck that the only way we might make it is if politicians and journalists from across the board were relentlessly honest with the public about the challenges ahead and the sacrifices that need to be made. But instead they're delusional.
I wonder what @BBCRadio4 controller Mohit Bakaya thinks about the Today programme. The rest of Radio 4 is crammed with strong climate and nature coverage, then you’ve got a bunch of scientific illiterates on @BBCr4today echoing the billionaire media and lying about the UK’s contribution.
In 2021, @climateactiontr assessed 36 countries to see whether they were on track to stick to the Paris Agreement and keep global heating to 1.5C. Just one of them was: The Gambia, a small country in W Africa. Two months later they revised their plan and were no longer compliant.
ALT a city in the Gambia
Scientific *and moral* grounds. We must leave fossil fuels in the ground because it's the right thing to do - and to do the opposite would be absolutely evil.
Hi @Ed_Miliband, I have two young children and what I want more than anything is for them to have the opportunity to grow old on a broadly liveable planet.
Since 2009, you have been a pretty solitary example of someone in a position of power in the UK...
ALT Ed Miliband at a windfarm
...who has made that more likely.
By laying the groundwork to close Britain's coal-fired power plants, you did more than any politician to reduce our once sky-high emissions.
By resisting the calls from the billionaire media, the BBC and the oil & gas industry to extract every last drop from the North Sea - no matter the cost - you showed that it's possible for fossil fuel states to do the only thing that could actually give our children a future: leave those fuels in the ground.
I grew up in the Labour Party and although I left it many years ago, as did my parents more recently, we held you up as proof that good people can still do good things from within the party.
Now you stand at a precipice. Eternity will judge you based on what happens next - and so will today's young people, should they live long enough.
If a Labour government with you in it commits the "moral and economic madness" of greenlighting a single new oil or gas field in the North Sea, then that will be what you, and the Labour Party, are remembered for. For however much is left of human history.
ALT UK newspaper headlines suggesting Ed Miliband is poised to agree new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea
I feel this
The truth is, over the last 30 years, the environmental movement has catastrophically failed. Despite all the effort, global carbon emissions have risen by over 60% since 1990, even after decades of scientific warnings about catastrophic climate breakdown. I’m not blaming the individuals who have given their lives to this cause, but dedication alone is not enough. Success demands rigorous analysis and a willingness to disrupt the entire system
"Relentlessly focused on delivering for the British people"
ALT Larry Ellison and Tony Blair on a boat
Does anyone else feel like we're in this weird calm before the storm? Last few years of climate have been relatively stable but next few may well see rapid acceleration. We know the shit is going to hit the fan due to Strait of Hormuz being closed. Why aren't we doing something?
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This kinda put me off Private Eye to be honest. Clueless.
Getting why people are getting hopeful about the Green Party so wrong is bad enough.
Saying it out loud like this? Embarrassing for Private Eye.
Don’t be patronised. They’re just defending the establishment.
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OK but the whole idea of arguing that we should act to prevent collapse because it will save us money is obviously total bollocks and also morally repulsive and also plays into the hands of the right...
Awks for Tories & Reform who want to keep us hooked on fossil fuels: new @theCCCuk report shows transition to net zero will cost less than a single oil shock - £4bn a year - as well as delivering health & security benefits theguardian.com/environment/…
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as @GeorgeMonbiot explained in this classic piece
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