Kevin Anderson »Pseudo technologies are a facade to avoid asking the difficult political and equity based questions. 'Net Zero' is a real dangerous term in my view and really means NOT zero. I always say 'net zero' is latin for 'kick the can down the road'.« – Professor Kevin... Anderson 🧵4/8show more

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words: »We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.« 🧵1/8

»We are locking in very high levels of sea level rise, maybe 7-8 meters. We are changing weather and rainfall patterns as well as insect pollination of our crops. All of this plays out one disaster after another. We’re talking about society collapse here.« – @KevinClimate 🧵2/8

»Countries make various promises about what they are going to do against climate change. These promises are a disaster and still overly optimistic because they only rely on future generations, our children and grandchildren to develop technologies that we don’t have today.« 🧵3/8

»I have to be honest and say as someone who has worked on #ClimateChange for years, my best guess is that we are going to fail. But it is a choice to fail. Political leaders, academia and journalism have repeatedly chosen to fail on #climate for 30 years.« — @KevinClimate 🧵5/8

»It is a choice to fail and it’s a choice to succeed. If we sit back and wait for the great and good to deliver this change then we will fail. I comes down to all of us to play our role as best as we can in fighting the #ClimateCrisis. Hope arises from civility society.« 🧵6/8

This was Kevin Anderson, Climate Scientist and professor at @OfficialUoM and @UU_University as well as the Co-Director of the @TyndallCentre. If you want to hear more talks from him, you can head deeper into the rabbit hole here 👇 🧵7/8

@OfficialUoM @UU_University @TyndallCentre Original source of the video cropped for this thread see below. Thank you for sharing! 🙏 🧵8/8

@OfficialUoM @UU_University @TyndallCentre Wonder why there is so little progress on all the climate conferences? Here’s why:

@OnfromGambier @KevinClimate I would add 'avoid the worst effects of climate change' to net zero, 1.5C and other symbols as part of a 'dictionary of destruction' promoted by 'progressives' in the global North.