Liam Kavanagh
@liamckavanagh
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Co-Director, climate majority project. • co-founder @forLifeItself • President, Bergerac Praxis Hub • Shadows of the Enlightenment (book)
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Joined January 2009
Polls show ~half of Britons think we are bound for collapse. We should talk about this much, much more, not less. Why?. Change happens in two stages:. 1. A majority knows change is necessary.2. A majority knows that a majority knows change is necessary. We're stuck at stage 1.
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RT @nntaleb: Was the guest of the Norwegia govt sovereign wealth fund, interested in the pricing of climate risk. At dinner I explained the….
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I don’t love the fact that US voters think Donald Trump is their best option, but that’s not actually his fault, or voters’. He might have been the wrong choice but voters wanted a different choice for decades and they finally got one. Lets focus on providing a different.
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If Musk's charges about illegal aliens voting were true, how many $ would he need to pay one single person to provide evidence that they could easily vote illegally? . 10 mill? Still a huge bargain for Republicans. Musk is smart enough to figure that out. No evidence because.
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RT @bradbaumn: /1 Quick thread on a lot of the “what should we do” conversations taking place right now:.
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£ 736 is the "true cost" of Milliband's Net zero proposal to each Briton per year. (approx). £ 300 Billion/68 million Britons = 4411 per person. £ 4411/6 years = £ 736/per year. £ 1 B of public expenditure is £ 14 per briton or £ 22 per taxpayer. About the cost of a main and a.
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Make Europe Great Again abbreviates to MEGA. MEGA > MAGA.Its time for Europe to prepare to go its own road and lead, and I think we will see this being charted more seriously in European new media. Both Unherd and Brave New Europe are worth looking at.
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Good: Today's critical CoP letter insists (deep in the text) that enforcement mechanisms are needed. Bad: Saying "the global policy framework is scientifically rigorous and economically sound and complete". By positioning themselves as critics and asserting such nonsense I.
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Re CoP & Climate Chaos:. Discussion that stays at diplomatic levels doesn't speak to our conundrum. Only when we stop pretending things are under control, and help a majority, including the most powerful privileged people on the planet, realise that systemic breakdown will.
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CoP was never fit for purpose. @GreenRupertRead and I have argued for some time that even Paris was not a genuine breakthrough. Trump's election should make this unarguable. World climate policy breakthrough will happen when there is popular pressure for it, and not before.
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Are "Wokists" becoming the new hippies: the easy target that people who want to remain respectable, while proposing something left of center, must take aim at?.
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It will take a while but yes, all the college educated people elites subtly but heavily asserting their own moral superiority was what Trump ran against. The mood is likely to turn soon very heavily against all that kind of tone.
We are now officially living in the post-woke era. I believe it ended just after October 7, 2023. But since November 6, 2024 it’s not up for debate.
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My greatest reason for optimism this morning is that much bigger thinking and ambition is needed from people who see our societies in a tailspin, and a Trump victory would stimulate it. Plus Harris has a good chance.
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Looking for reasons for optimism this morning? You've heard that betting markets favor Trump, but what about the best bettors? @domer and @apsalarlol seem to have the highest % growth in their stakes, both are betting heavily on Harris. Plus youth turnout seems high.
The last important pieces of the polling puzzle are in this morning (NYT polls & Muhlenberg in PA), and I'll say that I think Kamala is now somewhere around 55-60% range to be the next President. Given markets put Trump around 55%, I'm betting a lot on Kam at the moment. If you
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The next wave of the Biden news cycle: the damage done already is too much. Whether you thought JB should step down or not his own side's undercutting and polls can't be overcome. Even his supporters will soon be able to switch horses while being loyal — blaming critics.
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I talk climate with many ppl. This simple chain of logic seems to make some lightbulbs go on. Changing rainfall patterns means less rain in places where yesterday there was lots. That's where the plants are. So they become firewood. And then:.
theguardian.com
Blackened trees, dead animals and scorched earth – early wildfires have already devastated Brazil’s Pantanal and local people worry they may lose the battle to save them
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RT @prospect_uk: Former Extinction Rebellion strategist @GreenRupertRead: “Some publicity is bad publicity [. ] There comes a point where….
prospectmagazine.co.uk
Rupert Read on how to lead the ‘silent majority’ towards climate action
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Our own Jadzia Tedeschi has written about how she helped to start Climate Courage Campaign because she felt similar to these young people.
desmog.com
To deal with the challenges of the new normal, the next UK government must transform education now.
I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work. Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.
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A lot of people who've been listening to young people have heard the same thing. The Climate Courage Campaign is bringing them together. Together we are asking the new Labour government to create the spaces these teenagers need.
I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work. Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.
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