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Chris Shaw
@kalahar1
Class, climate, adaptation.
Seaford, England
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    Chris Shaw
    @kalahar1
    Aug 13, 2023
    What we talk about when we talk about climate change. A short(ish) thread. 1. What is presented as climate action is actually action intended to legitimise liberalism in the face of a catastrophe for which liberalism has no answers. Here's how it's done 1/10
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    Chris Shaw
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    Nov 24, 2024
    It is important that the working class, with their low levels of education and uncontrolled passions, continue to be kept out of the debate about how to respond to climate change. These are the 5 key steps for achieving that. 1/6
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    Chris Shaw
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    Aug 15, 2023
    I often encounter the argument that once the climate crisis gets bad enough people will wake up and change. Nope.
    theguardian.com
    Even in Greek towns razed by wildfires, people don’t blame the climate crisis. That must change |...
    Many see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it, says author Christy Lefteri
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    Chris Shaw
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    Dec 9, 2019
    Replying to @owenjonesjourno @OwenJones84 and @BorisJohnson
    Someone at @CCHQPress messed up and made the mistake of leaving @BorisJohnson alone and unsupervised with a journalist who was intent on doing his job.
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    Chris Shaw
    @kalahar1
    Aug 29, 2024
    The worst thing that ever happened to the climate movement was 1. allowing a rich debate about how we might live to be reduced to a bleak, sterile calculation about decarbonising electricity supply and 2. assuming our enemy is fossil fuel companies, not capitalism as a whole.
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    The BREAK–DOWN
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    Aug 29, 2024
    “Working-class climate politics ... would say ‘how do we build a better world for everyone?’ not ‘how do we reproduce this world just minus the emissions?’" Ep 8 is LIVE! @kalahar1 unpacks liberalism & the ways it constrains our political imagination. youtu.be/1xPwgvLX8FE?si…
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    Chris Shaw
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    Sep 10, 2023
    Not me. I left my climate change job last Monday to focus on pursuing the kind of work I feel is necessary, given it is now obvious that 'net zero' is not an agenda that can save us
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    Chris Shaw
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    Jul 23, 2023
    Thousands fleeing forest fires in Greece, devastation in Zagreb, rivers of ice flowing down the streets in Italy. Who would be brave enough to say net zero by 2050/1.5c warming limit isn't going to save us?
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    ACMatt
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    Jul 19, 2023
    Never have I ever witnessed such a storm in Zagreb. It caused absolute chaos.. Some of the footage from it, it was insane.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Jul 29, 2023
    Never had such an engaged climate conversation at my local tennis club as I had today - real concern, anguish and acceptance that something is up. All for naught of course - the moral imperative, the political understanding and historical knowledge needed is totally absent.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Jan 3, 2021
    I took time off from climate Twitter to protect my sanity, I can't deal with the disconnect between evidence of impending catastrophe and the complacency of mainstream climate policy/ climate policy discourse. Away from Twitter I hardly ever encounter mention of climate change.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Aug 18, 2022
    Both my sons are utterly fatalistic about climate change and feel there is nothing left to do but watch how it all unfolds. I'm trying to excite them about the electrified neo-liberalism that is on its way and will save us all, but I'm not really feeling it, tbf.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Aug 25, 2020
    Thing about nuclear power is nuclear technology requires management over thousands of years. I look around at the devastation caused through the short term mindset of liberal capitalism and think, this is just not that kind of society, it is like giving a kid a machine gun.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Sep 5, 2020
    Compare the outrage at a one day interruption to the delivery of newspapers and the indifference towards the unimaginable destruction and suffering of climate change that is now underway.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Nov 24, 2024
    Replying to @kalahar1
    6/6: Step 5. Remove any hope of imagining things might change for the working class. Promise technology will improve their lives and that they needn’t worry about pursuing meaningful political change.
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    Chris Shaw
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    Jul 14, 2024
    All the stories of our wonderful net zero future are worse than useless because they don't account for this very simple fact - the world they imagine awaits in 2050 no longer exists.
    Opinion: We built our world for a climate that no longer exists | CNN
    From edition.cnn.com
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