If you're in #BritishColumbia - read this. Especially if you were ever a Horganized crimes against humanity supporter. For folks still unaware, past #BCNDP #BCPremier quit & used #cronyism to get his groomed guy Eby in. Horgan lied about why he quit & told public it was to take better care of his health & spend more time w/family. He's working as a #Coalindustry consultant now.

I predicted he'd #hoodwink ppl just like this, over 2 yrs ago. I predicted he'd lie/quit & work for #ecocidal corp.

Dont buy #SmartTVs you dont need your TV watching you. And absolutely dont get a smart fridge or washer. The #InternetOfThings is a privacy nightmare not to mention #Ecocidal

Thank me later

“…we find that, as they currently are, #universities actually act as barriers to the kinds of systemic transformations needed to secure a safe and secure future for all. This should be viewed as a dereliction of that duty - to students, staff and wider society…chasing infinite growth on a finite planet is an #ecocidal pursuit. Without challenging it, universities are facilitative and complicit” #ToxicAcademia #LeavingAcademia https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2023.1166642/full

https://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article66880

A wave of repression is currently sweeping across #France against the environmental movement, following, in particular, a campaign against cement manufacturer #Lafarge and the dissolution of Soulèvements de la Terre.

Lafarge is one of the country’s largest companies, and one of the biggest emitters of CO2.

But Lafarge is not just an #ecocidal company. It has also been accused of financing various #terrorist organisations, including the #IslamicState.

#Environment

It was standing-room only in the council chamber on Thursday when Nadine Hunt got up to ask council to support the West Mabou Beach Committee's opposition to the #ecocidal #golf proposal. There was a standing ovation when she was done.

Two Inverness County councillors say they are opposed to a proposed golf course development at West Mabou Beach #ProvincialPark but municipal council is not taking a position for now.

#Environment
#NovaScotia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/inverness-county-council-neutral-on-west-mabou-golf-1.6728150

Compounding systemic failures.

RT @eisnerwetland@twitter.com

HRM is quick to blame the Province of #NovaScotia for the City's #Ecocidal and Not Affordable #housing schemes, but there's plenty of shame to be shared by both levels of governments.
Details:
https://eco-action.ca/include/protect-eisner-wetland-hrm-role.htm

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/eisnerwetland/status/1613528806253559808

HRM is quick to blame the Province for the City's #Ecocidal and Not Affordable housing schemes, but there's plenty of shame to be shared by both levels of governments.
#Halifax #NovaScotia #Housing

Details:
https://eco-action.ca/include/protect-eisner-wetland-hrm-role.htm

So much to unwrap in regards to the @TimHoustonNS-enabled #ecocidal "development" of Eisner Cove #Wetland in #dartmouth #NovaScotia. This powerful heat-sink, #ClimateCrisis-and-flood-easing, #biodiverse treasure . . . is being squandered in backroom deals for NOT-Affordable #housing.

more:
https://eco-action.ca/include/defend-eisner-wetland.htm

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The UK conservative party government subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land using methods that degrade ecology. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, of many, that have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservative government promotes sheep farming (Carbon & methane emissions) and bird game reserves (they poison and shoot birds of prey).

“The data in this report clearly show that raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England, with over two thirds of the incidents connected to land managed for gamebird shooting."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/birdcrime-report-2021/

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

Conclusion: “use of wood stoves may be linked to as many as 30% of all cancers occurring in the region”. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/27.6.936

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExtinctionRebelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The UK conservative party government subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land using methods that degrade ecology. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, of many, that have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservative government promotes sheep farming (Carbon & methane emissions) and bird game reserves (they poison and shoot birds of prey).

“The data in this report clearly show that raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England, with over two thirds of the incidents connected to land managed for gamebird shooting."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/birdcrime-report-2021/

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

Conclusion: “use of wood stoves may be linked to as many as 30% of all cancers occurring in the region”. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/27.6.936

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExtinctionRebelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The UK conservative party government subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land using methods that degrade ecology. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, of many, that have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservative government promotes sheep farming (Carbon & methane emissions) and bird game reserves (they poison and shoot birds of prey).

“The data in this report clearly show that raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England, with over two thirds of the incidents connected to land managed for gamebird shooting."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/birdcrime-report-2021/

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

Conclusion: “use of wood stoves may be linked to as many as 30% of all cancers occurring in the region”. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/27.6.936

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExtinctionRebelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The UK conservative party government subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land using methods that degrade ecology. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, of many, that have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservative government promotes sheep farming (Carbon & methane emissions) and bird game reserves (they poison and shoot birds of prey).

“The data in this report clearly show that raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England, with over two thirds of the incidents connected to land managed for gamebird shooting."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/birdcrime-report-2021/

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

Conclusion: “use of wood stoves may be linked to as many as 30% of all cancers occurring in the region”. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/27.6.936

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExstinctionRebbelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The UK conservative party government subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land using methods that degrade ecology. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, of many, that have the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservative government promotes sheep farming (Carbon & methane emissions) and bird game reserves (they poison and shoot birds of prey).

“The data in this report clearly show that raptor persecution remains at a sustained high level, especially in England, with over two thirds of the incidents connected to land managed for gamebird shooting."
https://www.rspb.org.uk/about-the-rspb/about-us/media-centre/press-releases/birdcrime-report-2021/

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

Conclusion: “use of wood stoves may be linked to as many as 30% of all cancers occurring in the region”. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/27.6.936

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExstinctionRebbelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late? or at least climate change will make it harder to adapt).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The conservative party subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land and degraded conditions. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example, or many, that has the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservatives promote sheep farming and bird game reserves.

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national government, local councils, local businesses, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma (plus all the other smoke pollution-related diseases).

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExstinctionRebbelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history. It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly how little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - Mr Sunak is only another business person. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Cumbria, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing the 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many people in WhiteHaven (& Cumbria in general) are or completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning. Looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future.

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which has a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreting and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are that ignorant! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging (ecology!). They simply do not understand and their greed cognitively blinds them.

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing).

That's business as usual. And if business as usual isn't stopped - that will be all folks! (too late).

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology do they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The conservative party subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land and degraded conditions. They are the losers! They simply don't know it (yet)

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example where there is the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservatives promote sheep farming and bird game reserves.

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national governments, local councils, and local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma.

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backward (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExstinctionRebbelion #XR

Is your government ignorant?

Why are too many governments recklessly incompetent within the context of sustaining a healthy environment? Considering the state of the #environment is a "little" bit important (vast understatement).

Of course - there are many monetary agendas. But that on its own would not make a government make so many #ecocidal
decisions. Whilst the fossil fuel industries are making profits now - climate change will cost societies far more than any fossil fuel corporations' profits. We can't buy back ice sheets, sea level rise, droughts, ocean acidification, and destroyed habitats that take thousands of years to develop.

So, why so eco-stupid? (some governments)

Because I have more experience listening to the rhetoric of the UK's conservative party government - I will generally relate this toot to them. Maybe the following sounds similar to your government if you live in a different country.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are *not* ecologists. Most of them have a business background (or lawyers, etc). - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of long-term success.

For example, talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money) - not ecology. They're interested in buying shares for the sake of gaining a profit - not sustaining ecology. In fact, all too often those shares are in ecologically degrading "business as usual" industries.

Exploiting nature is big money in the business-as-usual "empire".

It's clear that something is missing from some government leaders (decision-makers). The science is clear that we are in midst of the 6th mass extinction (this time caused by human activity).

"We’ve encroached on (and sometimes wiped out) the habitats of other species; we’ve released pollutants into the air, soil, fresh water, and oceans; and we’ve even changed the atmosphere and climate.

These changes are beginning to disrupt Earth’s systems at global scales — and are occurring rapidly.

Because of our burning of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels are rising faster than they ever have at any point in Earth’s history.10 It’s no surprise then that extinction rates have risen substantially in the last 500 years" https://evolution.berkeley.edu/mass-extinction/the-earths-sixth-mass-extinction/

And yet, in her extremely brief time as the UK prime minister - all Liz Truss went on about was, to paraphrase "Growth, Growth, Growth". And the current Conservative prime minister Rishi Sunak - wasn't even planning to attend this year's Climate Conference. Talk about showing publicly our little climate dedication Mr Sunak has. Again - enough (rich) business people. He didn't make his wealth by restoring ecology - quite the opposite.

Of course, Sunak like all those that went before him - will speak climate "blah blah blah" and then generally do the opposite. The conservatives are planning on opening a coal mine in England, Whitehaven. Apparently, they believe that burning that coal won't affect their climate commitments. They're generally correct - because their climate commitments are crap anyway. So, burning that coal is just more evidence of their backward climate "plans".

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how a coal mine will bring money to the Whitehaven area. Again - business rather than sustaining ecology. In other words, the "business as usual" agendas are causing a 6th mass extinction and climate change.

Also - a regular narrative in the British media is how the local people want a coal mine.

"Older groups, where I have found support for the mine to be most pronounced, recount their memories of when Whitehaven was a thriving industrial hub. They can recall how, throughout much of the 20th century, dozens of pits were open along the coast, and Whitehaven harbour, where coal was shipped to the rest of the world, was a frenzy of activity." https://theconversation.com/cumbria-coal-mine-how-to-understand-local-support-for-the-new-pit-196546

Many of these older groups in WhiteHaven (& beyond) are or completely ignorant of ecology. They don't know that their ideologies are threatening the younger generation's futures. However, the conservative government is also promoting the opening of the coal mine. And on *average* - older people tend to be more conservative-leaning (looking back to the past - rather than forward to the future)

Opening the coal mine is all part of the conservative party's ideas of more growth. But why not spend that money on renewables & renewable industry Jobs in Whitehaven? It's very close to the Solway Firth which is a tidal estuary - is it suitable for tidal renewable energy?

"100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight All-Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435117300120

When you hear Conservative politicians squawking about "growth" - they are not talking about the growth that plants do. What they're actually saying is "construction, construction, and more construction".

And that's general their economic agenda - more construction. For example, the conservatives want to fund the construction of more roads. But, surely even they're not so ignorant to believe that we can just keep concreating and tarmacking over more wildlife habitats?

Or perhaps they really are! To reiterate - talk to many business people & economists - and their minds are on business (& money). Not ecology.

Evidently, most, if not all, government politicians are not ecologists. Most of them have a business background. - therefore, within the context of sustaining ecology, they don't have the necessary background knowledge to be aware of what sustaining ecology means, and why sustaining ecology is mission-critical for any definition of success.

Can it be that simple? Can they be simply that ignorant? They simply do not really know what they are mismanaging. (ecology!)

I think they can be that simple because they make simply ignorant decisions & policies. Ecocide policies! And that's why you hear Conservative politicians squawking about more construction - in the midst of a global extinction event. An extinction event that their types of sociopolitical and socioeconomic ideologies and agendas caused (& are causing)

That's also why they often don't take their own scientific advisors' recommendations seriously - many business-minded people simply do not understand ecology (& knowledge shapes our perception of reality). Of course, there are also those business people that do understand that their products are harming the environment - but they continue to promote (e.g., advertise) and manufacture them anyway (because that's their business).

"Internal Fossil Fuel Industry Memos Reveal Decades of Corporate Disinformation" https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/climate-deception-dossiers

What about the general electorate? How much about ecology don't they understand? Nothing? A bit? Or do they read a lot of disinformation in the UK's tabloid press? And who owns and controls most of the press? Business people!

The more astute reader will have noticed a general social pattern that is the leading cause of environmental negligence and the exploitation of nature. Ignorance, apathy, and greed (corruption).

Simply uneducated (in ecology) minds not knowing how to manage a complex ecological system. "Business" isn't fundamental to a healthy ecosystem at all. "Business" is what we make and do with the planet's resources. And yet, "business" has already driven too many species extinct and is changing the planet's climate.

It's become more urgent that societies do "business" very differently. What forms of growth will mitigate "business as usual"?

Growing forests and developing peatlands sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Because timing is of the essence - prudent governments will invest in the growth of natural habitats. The conservative party subsidizes too many farmers to mismanage land in degraded condition.

The Lake District National Park (LDNP), Cumbria (again), England, is one example where there is the potential to sequester carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. But, rather than listen to scientific advice - the conservatives promote sheep farming and bird game reserves.

Furthermore, reforesting and restoring peatlands will mitigate the increase in flooding that is occurring in the area - but it's evident that the national governments, local councils an local people are having none of that ecological advice.

Crazy! Considering. Also, the Lake District National park consists of many local people that choose to burn coal and wood. Crazy! Considering the amounts of local smoke pollution means too many of their children have asthma.

But, since their direction of travel is evidently backwards (e.g., a new coal mine) - maybe they will also want to bring back child chimney sweeps. Just as there used to be in the British "good old days"

Since the Victorian age (1800's) human genetics hasn't changed - they are the same people. It would seem their minds have not kept pace with the changes in technologies and science either.

Stone-age minds #EvolutionaryPsychology

#LDNP #tradition #money #Dumbria #Cumbria #Fossilfuel #greenwash #culture #AirPollution #SmokePollution #disease #CoalBurning #WoodBurning #CoalMine #SheepFarming #SheepWrecked #WildlifeExtinction #ShootingAtBirds #religion #EcologicallyUnsustainableCulture #ScienceIlliteracy

#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #education #youth #protest #ExstinctionRebbelion #XR

@neotoy Yet actual full-scale grid-connected #nuclearfusion is still (at best) decades away, which is too late. The more attention it gets now, the more it lulls people into a false sense of security and so the slower we make the necessary moves (sprint!) away from #DirtyEnergy.

So in the short to medium term, this news actually functions as an extension of the window during which dirty energy interests can profit off their toxic, deadly, #ecocidal and unnecessary product.

The @TimHoustonNS Record is no cause for Applause. For many reasons, but see for yourself one example – the #ecocidal, #climateChange-boosting act of flattening a mature forest belt + draining pristine #wetland in #Dartmouth for NOT-Affordable Housing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDdMbh0JVcJI2MdNvWVl9ZQ

The #Nova Scotia Hall of Shame's Latest Member: @TimHoustonNS. Recognized for his Determined #Ecocidal practices . . . his Gift to us that keeps taking, now and far, far into the future.
Fueling #ClimateChange one corrupt backroom deal at a time.
4/5

@Greenpeace@newsbots.eu
Dear #Greenpeace,

If this is really a quote by you, we hope you are joking. Those polluters have had their time, they should not be prioritised over the millions of ppl who have been shafted, ignored and gaslit for literally decades.

No favorable treatment to illogical, #growthObsessed and #ecocidal criminals, please.

"I was #justDoingMyJob" is not a valid defence.

#greenpeace