George Marshall
@climategeorge
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Communicator, founder of @ClimateOutreach. Seeking fresh ways to talk and think about climate change. Author of Don't Even Think About It @dontignore_cc
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Joined July 2009
Negotiating finance for climate damage without negotiating the closure of fossil fuel production is like saying "I'm going to punch you in the face- but first lets talk about how much compensation you would like"
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How dare you. British slaveowners were compensated to the equivalent of near £20 BILLION in today’s money, drawing a debt that was only paid off, by taxpayers, in 2015. Gladstone’s father received one of the largest individual payouts, equivalent to £80m today. Shall I continue?
They ought to pay us for ending slavery, it is not something any other country had done and we were motivated by Christian charity.
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The key way to reduce emissions quickly is to eliminate waste, and that £22b could have fully retrofitted over a million social homes and provided huge employment and social benefits.
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I am appalled by the huge folly of @Ed_Miliband pumping £22billlion into the distractive, fantasy narrative of CCS. This is a storyline to maintain the fossil fuel economy and the government is going to set a bonfire of cash under this failed turkey to try and get it to fly.
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Congrats to my old friend @hedgehoghugh for nomination for 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation for his excellent and thoughtful book #cullofthewild. Strongly recommended and may he win! @wainwrightprize
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On my way to film the #RestoreNatureNow march in #London. Here's @climategeorge on how this event can help. #RNN @ChrisGPackham #nature #climatecrisis #climateemergency
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TOMORROW: George Marshall will be asking What Happens Next? Drawing on his own cross-disciplinary research, he'll explore the many different ways people could respond as the climate breaks down - from collaboration & innovation to blame & scapegoating. https://t.co/ShdcLAXFnh
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? with GEORGE MARSHALL Thursday May 16th How will we really respond when the climate breaks down? Will we see rationality and coherence, or will there be everything from collaboration and innovation, to denial, blame & scapegoating? https://t.co/8Q4pFxI1Lj
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Climate Psychology/Comms Podcast I very much enjoyed a long conversation with Jo Paisley for the @GARP_Risk podcast. We talked about the underlying causes of avoidance and denial, especially in the financial community. https://t.co/aX54GMR9UB
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Gutless retreat of labor from its climate change ambitions. Who am I going to vote for? Disgusting or gutless
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I was honoured and deeply moved to participate in this action. It is hard to fully convey how deeply moving it is to lay out these clothes knowing each one represents the death of a child.
Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed. It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long. (Location: Bournemouth Beach)
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Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed. It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long. (Location: Bournemouth Beach)
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There's a half-hearted nod about "carbon footprint", some avoidance strategies about " I'm very busy, I deserve it, The planes going anyway". Like many lifestyle programs it glorifies high carbon living
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I'm utterly appalled that @BBCRadio4 you and yours is now on the air glowingly promoting 'daycations': cheap flights all over Europe for a day off for "busy mums"
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APPALLING on every front- the techno-fantasy squared of geo-engineering + biofuels, the vast cost and diverted resources/opportunity cost, the matey corporate handouts Drax gets go-ahead for carbon capture project at estimated £40bn cost to bill-payers
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Scheme to convert biomass units could become one of world’s most expensive energy projects, experts say
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Fascinating post by @JamieWClarke interviewing people on attitudes to #climatechange following serious flooding in Oxford- he did the same thing 10 years ago and there has been some increase in awareness of cc over 10 years...but still not enough! https://t.co/oCJJ5yTO7d
Climate change and flooding - has 91-year-old resident Betty changed her mind now Oxford has been hit by another serious flood? I interviewed my neighbours a decade after asking the same questions - had perceptions changed? The results are revealing https://t.co/vr1gf8n6Tt
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Climate change and flooding - has 91-year-old resident Betty changed her mind now Oxford has been hit by another serious flood? I interviewed my neighbours a decade after asking the same questions - had perceptions changed? The results are revealing https://t.co/vr1gf8n6Tt
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BREAKING - #Rosebank oilfield just given go-ahead - the greatest act of environmental vandalism in my lifetime, causing emissions equal to 28 lowest income countries, busting #climate targets & doing nothing for energy security since vast majority is for export #climatecriminals
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#rosebank ..and a reminder that the cognitive separation of cause and effect, production and consumption, fossil fuels and emissions is the original sin that feeds our tragic failure
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#rosebank a cluster fuck of evasive self justifying denial narratives in defence of the indefensible
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