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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

A funny aside, is that I keep hearing this mistaken narrative, that it was only when Greta discovered that capitalism was the problem, that the establishment cancelled her. No, Greta always knew that, and anyway, they cancelled her before her recent work.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

Greta got all that right in the beginning. She had sound scientific advice from leading scientists, who fact checked what she wrote. All, if I don't mind saying, Greta joined up the dots a bit better than they did. No one is better than Greta at seeing the big picture.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I could tell Greta about all the thinking errors people make, the trap of language logic, the structure of the world's power cliques, and the evolutionary weaknesses that the rich and powerful use to manipulate, gaslight, and exploit the public. But not about the basic problem.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

Indigenous peoples, already understood where we'd gone wrong. It is really quite simple at basis. Living within your ecological means. Our society knows everything about living within your financial means, and absolutely nothing about the Earth's planetary boundaries, and what's possible.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

All I discovered in my 55 year year journey of learning, was the false traps, clever people fell into, all the logical fallacies and inconsistencies, in the thinking of the greedy, the clever, the deluded people with power and money.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

But clever people ignored what Greta said. With a big dose of misogyny, what can a young girl know, she sees things far too simply, in black and white terms. If you want to know why she got it exactly right, it would take me a lot of words. Just let me say, she got it exactly right.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I was very unsatisfied with most of the environmental accounts I read, as there was no joined up thinking, none saw the big picture. I was stunned when I first heard Greta's speeches. At last, someone else who saw the whole big picture. Someone with no gaps in their thinking.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I realized all my reading was a complete waste of time. I was told that I didn't understand the real world. So I spent a massive amount of time understanding the science, and what was known, and found that the world was as my 10 year old self saw it.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I was pretty confident I could re-write most of Western Philosophy, which was constructed on a series of logical fallacies, mistaking the map for the territory. But I realized that would be pointless, as hardly anyone understands the work of these philosophers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%...
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Map–territory relation - Wikipedia

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

Anyway, in case I was mistaken, I set out to read everything I could, reading the Limits to Growth when I was about 13. The amount I read over the next 50+ years was absurd. I studied ecology at university, and scoured the library to find what was known.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I know all this, because I came to the same conclusions 55 years ago, when I was 10 years old. I tried to tell people, and they laughed at me, and told me that I didn't understand the real world. But I was pretty sure of this, because I used to read adult encyclopedias for fun.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

It only becomes difficult, if you try to maintain the ridiculous extravagant lifestyles of a small minority of the Earth's population, and to have your cake and eat it. Expecting magical solutions to do facilitate that.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
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First Thing: Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%

‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

To live within the Earths ecological means. It really is quite simple, although it would mean massive changes to our system as it is. Individuals possessing ridiculous wealth, and destroying the Earths natural life support systems for profit. The end of industrial capitalism.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

For that, we need total system change, a complete move away from all actions, progressively destroying the Earth's natural lift support systems, and move to only lifestyles and economic activities, that are within the Earth's planetary boundaries.
www.stockholmresilience.org/research/pla...
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Planetary boundaries

The planetary boundaries framework highlights the rising risks from human pressure on nine critical global processes that regulate the stability and resilience of the Earth

www.stockholmresilience.org

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

The mistake is in thinking that it requires a complex explanation or solution. No, it is quite simple. Listen to the science describing climate change, rapidly phase out fossil fuel burning, and stop all actions destroying the Earth's biodiversity and natural ecosystem.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

Very stupid people, have said, but Greta never has any solutions. However, when asked why didn't she become a climate scientist, and find a solution to the climate, to the climate crisis, she answered that the solution was known well over 30 years ago.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 10h

I have a small slim book here, that could save humanity, and change the world, if people took any notice of what it said. That book is No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, by Greta Thunberg. A collection of her early speeches.

It is all complete.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_One_...
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Wikipedia

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 11h

Why has Prince Andrew never been questioned by the British police? It has been alleged that he had sex with a sex trafficked young girl, in the UK. The victim made it very clear, that this was not consensual, so the age of consent in the UK is not a relevant issue.

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 1d

What I mean, by what was the problem, is this. Was the establishment so all powerful, that no conventional politician, could change it? Or was Obama just disingenuous, and he never really meant the things he said.
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 1d

I agree, it was an absurd award. Obama spoke all progressive, but once in office, he was just another grey, neoliberal Democrat, with added right on, hollow, and disingenuous rhetoric.

He caused me to question, what was the problem?
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

I've been wondering that myself. Either all those mainstream commentators are dumb, or they are in on it.

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not suggesting they have a good track record. Not just Obama, but the old warmonger himself, Henry Kissinger.

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

There are so many other deserving causes and people, who have never supported any hate or violence. Did the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee, simply not vet Mara Corina Machado, or is it stuffed full of right wingers, who turned a blind-eye?
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

"Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado supports Israel’s war and Benjamin Netanyahu? Here are the facts"

I am not making this up. I have checked it out from multiple sources. She seems quite keen on Islamophobic, European fascism too.
www.theweek.in/news/middle-...
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Mara Corina Machado supports Israel’s war and Benjamin Netanyahu? Here are the facts

Maria Corina Machado had strong political ties with Netanyahu’s Likud party and has said on Twitter that “Venezuela’s struggle is Israel’s struggle” when it comes to the matter of terrorism

www.theweek.in

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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg, has never supported any hate. She has never supported Hamas, and condemned them, along with the 7 October attack. So why has the Nobel Peace Prize gone to someone who supports Netanyahu's genocide, and European fascism?
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Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 2d

Only one person deserves the Nobel Peace Prize, and that is Greta Thunberg. I acknowledge the work done by others, but only one person has the joined up moral and realistic vision.

I expect Greta is the least interested in it, which is why she deserves it.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Nobel peace prize 2025: Norway fears repercussions if Donald Trump not honoured in ceremony

US president has been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

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