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Burnham knows this just as he knows that he is harming trans people - he doesn’t really care but it will come back and bite him.

Are there any signs that climate change is affecting the UK?

tbh I'm quite angry that a billionaire has the arrogance to preach to those of us whose blood is all over the wall, C@ntz like him built.

Despite funding climate-denying media voices, all the big financial orgs & fossil fuel companies have been fully aware of the severity of the situation & been planning accordingly for decades. I bet they expected stronger democratic pushback as they pushed profits over human survival but here we are

He was saying this in 2006, right? Right???

Sure, the absurdity of the idea was kind of my point.

And the methods they intend to deploy far too ineffective.

George Monbiot - Journalist.

You should. I guarantee the answer isn't one you'd expect.

While it doesn’t seem to apply to many hedgies, in principle they *should* be pro net zero - hedgies are gamblers but prefer safe bets based on good information. Investing in renewables is a pretty safe bet for making money, if only politicians and the fossil fuel lobby could see it.

In many cases, the use of the word “misunderstanding” is far too kind.

Yep and as it's a finite resource the cost will rise as we get closer to the end, regardless. We've already had decades of wars, can you imagine what it would be like to reach the scarcity point without any alternatives?

Replace completely with deliberately and I’d agree

There's no profit without a liveable planet

Good to see. Of course, this should have been done 40 years ago. In the 1960s LBJ’s science advisors told him there was a problem. In the 1970s Exxon set out to refute the science, its scientists confirmed the science was right and then Exxon went into denial mode. It’s so sad.

Not all of them. I can forgive the misunderstanding ones. But there's a big chunk of those saying we can't afford it who fully understand what's happening but are pushing the lies for their own personal profit,& fuck the rest of us. Those guys deserve the guillotine. & We should start building them

If food gets that expensive i'll just be taking it from a much older weaker richer person, along with anything else i fancy. Thats whats going to happen in the forseeable and we keep begging people to stop acting in disttuctive self interest. Excess wealth causes actual brain damage

And it is precisely the growth imperative that drives his entire existence which has caused this. It will not be fixed by wind turbines and EVs.

in other words take politics out of the debate. Fossil fuel interests spend vast amounts on PR operations and a favourite attack vector is to ridicule planet savers. Resonates with many bitter people far and wide. Instead ridicule them on basic economics and financial profligacy; that's gonna hurt👍

And move where? To the Mountains? To never enjoy crystal clear beaches again as we have endless storms? What a braindead moron

He too misses the key core essential point. Price rises are totally irrelevant on a planet that's hostile to human life, animals and plants. Vast areas are already becoming unliveable for most of the year, affecting millions and millions of people.

Fossil fuel subsidies in France alone is 18 billions. Public money spent to pay the same people who made conscious choice of destroying the human civilization. And which that: they buy politician and corrupt politics.

not just that, it biggest opportunity for british businesses this century and the right seems determined to ham string them and I can’t understand why every journalist doesn’t make that point when some right wing numpty is wanging on about it

Or you operate the guillotine during the French Revolution.