The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
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Good point!
Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
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US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
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You've all heard of the Resource Curse: countries are impoverished by rich resources in their territories, as these trigger colonial looting.
Now we see the Base Curse: if you host a US base, you don't enhance your security. You make yourself a target.
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If it's Scott Ritter and RT, don't bother. Whatever it is, it's likely to be dodgy.
Missile by missile, the US is blowing its own hegemony apart.
There are quite a few cynical and sinister figures in British public life. But Tony Blair is among the very worst. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Just to log this, in case it escalates. This article, which claims I've endorsed an automated trading service, is a scam, which has nothing to do with me, the Guardian, or the BBC, whose logo has been mocked up.
The only financial advice I'd give anyone is "don't ask me for financial advice."
This is from 1975.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
When an illegal war, likely to cause mass murder, is launched, we have a choice of 2 positions:
1. It's wrong and has to stop.
2. Hurray! Let's join in.
Much of the UK Establishment - Conservatives, Reform, the billionaire media - went straight for Option 2.
Which tells you all you need to know.
Thanks George. Here’s a link to the UK distributor tullstories.co.uk/films/breaki...
We are just begin to get an inkling of how deeply embedded Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair were/are with the sinister rich. Every time you think you've seen the worst of it, something else emerges.
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No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof.
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Yes, an astonishing story. And after 5 years, the occupying powers suddenly went: "hang on, this looks a bit like socialism. Whoops!". Too late mate. Japan got everything US citizens were not allowed to have.
Yes, I don't mean an exact copy. I mean that level of taxation, however it is best levied against current wealth structures.
Good point
I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway.
It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people.
And what to do about it.
From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%.
Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
Amazeballs🤯--the world gets fossil fuelled climate disasters, repeat global mass coral bleaching, toxic algal blooms that kill marine life over tens of thousands of sq km, destruction of irreplaceable Indigenous rock art cultural heritage
Meg O'Neill gets a fancy 11.7 million pound pay check 🤬🤬🤬
It is THE fundamental problem. To survive and prosper we must make billionaires history. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.
I watched Fredrik Gertten's Breaking Social film last night. It's excellent - powerful, moving, brilliantly explained. It's now touring the UK, so do look out for showings near you.
www.breakingsocialfilm.com
Not a lot.
In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...
Yup, working a treat, isn't it? Or perhaps, as you live in that mysterious place where "they" all live, you know better than the polls. news.sky.com/story/greens...
