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I felt the car go over something in the road. And I thought, Oh fuck. I’ve run over someone’s cat. As luck would have it it was just a climate protester. I did the decent honourable thing. I put the car in reverse and finished the job. Andrew Lawrence: Borderline Illegal, Comedy Unleashed, Youtube 32.25, 2025
The richest 1% of humans will produce 86x more carbon emissions by 2030 than the poorest 50%. Capitalism will not solve the climate crisis. Capitalism IS the climate crisis. Glen Greenwald
What happens what a frozen world locked away for millennia starts to thaw? In 2014, a helicopter flying over Siberia discovers something mysterious: a crater more than 80 feet wide and deeper than a 15-storey building. Sinkholes are nothing new but this is no ordinary sinkhole. More Siberian craters have since been discovered. There’s even evidence they may be appearing in Alaska. And they show no sign of stopping. Nova: Arctic Sinkholes, PBS 2022
Are the craters warning shots for our climate future? ibid.
Across the world gaping sinkholes have appeared due to water or erosion weakening the ground beneath, swallowing cars whole. ibid.
‘So this is a huge bomb. Methane bomb.’ ibid. expert
But the Arctic is warming faster. It’s currently heating up around twice as fast. ibid.
In some regions, the permafrost has started to thaw. ibid.
Cop 26, the international climate summit, billed as ‘the last chance to save the planet’, finally got down to business. Hosted by the country Boris Johnson has declared ‘the global leader in the fight against climate change’. Dispatches: How Green is the Government? Channel 4 2021
Why as chaos reigns in the gas market is the government failing to prioritise new sources of renewable green power? ibid.
‘The potential for geothermal in the UK is absolutely huge’. ibid.
On July 5th 2018 an unprecedented event took place in Northern Siberia, along the coast of the Arctic Ocean, which has triggered all the alarms: a heatwave made temperatures soar 25 degrees Celsius above normal on those summer days to a record-breaking temperature of 33 degrees Celsius. Melting Point, Netflix 2018
2012: 97% of the frozen surface of Greenland started to thaw. ibid.
Scientists have stated that efforts aren’t enough and are asking for greater commitment. ibid.
[comment]: Aldous Huxley’s novel portrays a dystopia future under the dictatorship of a world state where ever aspect of human life is controlled, from laboratory creation to the grave. He described the story as fantasy, but later wrote: ‘The prophecies made in 1931 are coming true much sooner than I thought they would.’ The Agenda: Their Vision, Your Future, Youtube 2025
The ideology of a world dictated by science is deep-rooted. Almost a century ago a movement was established in the United States preaching that the population should be governed by an elite of selected experts, scientists and academics, rather than democratically elected politicians. They called it Technocracy. ibid.
‘They want all of the resources of the world in their pocket.’ ibid. Patrick Wood
The global takeover is not only possible, it’s actually happening. ibid.
So what if the whole carbon narrative was one gargantuan lie, a political manoeuvre to establish their brave new world? ibid.
Bill Gates has become the largest private landowner in America. ibid.
So did the carbon story take hold? … An agenda that has persisted for over 50 years. ibid.
‘All of this was fueling the ideology that there’s too many people on the planet, and there’s not enough resources, and something must be done.’ iibid.
Maurice Strong: In 1975 the Club of Rome published a second report. ibid.
‘They just made it up out of thin air.’ ibid. Patrick Wood