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The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

It's blatant climate denial.

#nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

It's blatant climate denial.

#nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

It's blatant climate denial.

#nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

It's blatant climate denial.

#nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

The ACT Party’s climate policy is idiotic and deceitful.

NZ’s pledge to halve emissions by 2030 was already insufficient and then further weakened by accounting tricks, rollbacks, and a relaxed methane target.

Independent ratings do NOT see NZ as more ambitious than other countries.

It's blatant climate denial.

#nzpol #climatechange #climatedenial #election20206 #2026election #nzelection2026

My personnal feeling is more like:
- first they went for climate-scientists #climatedenial
- then secondly they went for scientists and historians, it was at the beginning of COVID19

Journalists helped to complete the job

Then they continued, because it worked: Journalists are NOT scientists

Sobering article but *absolutely* worth a read …. and please boost widely!

“4 Billion Dead: ‘There Are No Words’”

by Media Lens on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCNews
@guardian
@Independent
@thetimes
@newyorktimes
@miamiherald
@thegreenparty
@EUCommission
@euparliament
@ZackPolanski

“If you need an indication of how divorced the ‘mainstream’ media is from reality, consider this: the possibility of at least 4 billion deaths resulting from 3 degrees Celsius of global warming by 2050 made barely a dent in news headlines.”

https://medialens.substack.com/p/4-billion-dead-there-are-no-words

#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #ClimateCrisis #4BD #LegacyMedia #Extinction #Deaths #Mortality #PlanetarySolvency #TippingPoints #Guardian #BBC #GargantuanLie #MI5 #MI6 #Polanski #ClimateDenial #Reform #FarRight #Narratives #Hallam

Tommaso Piazza reviews Gabriele Contessa's book Science Denial in SERRC, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/06/12/a-review-of-gabriele-contessas-science-denial-tommaso-piazza/

An eralier review was by Maya Goldenberg, https://social-epistemology.com/2026/04/29/science-denial-post-trust-and-epistemic-blame-a-review-of-contessas-science-denial-maya-goldenberg/

#science #tiede #denial #scienceDenial #epistemology #socialScience #climateDenial #pseudoscience #postTruth #truth #misinformation #trust #motivatedInquiry #evidence #reasoning #motivatedReasoning #harm #egoism #collectiveResponsibility #society #futures #planetEarth #resistance #belief #ideology #epistemicSecurity #psychology #philosophyOfScience #philosophy #filosofia

There's a meme on FB that asks why no billionaire has funded the halting or reversal of climate change, just so people would revere them for literally saving humanity. This was my response:

Partly it involves a process change to everything we do, so it doesn't happen on a specific day and so there is no glory, like saving us from an asteroid that's about to destroy Earth. There is no definitive problem that on a certain day you can say "see, it's done".

Partly because the solutions involve changing how everything on the planet operates in a way that many people will regard as adverse, because even though we talk about caring about our kids, people are really a lot in it for themselves and if it comes down to them having a good time or leaving a livable world for their kids, they're going to have a good time and pretend to hope their kids will survive it.

Partly it's that there's good money in pretending it's not a big deal, and these are people who like to use money as their signal of goodness. To the extent they pretend they care about humanity, in many cases they're just trying to make a profit on the fact that others do.

Partly it's that the solution is actually something that even billionaires don't have enough to just buy outright overnight.

Partly it's that it cuts into their lifestyles, in many cases, because the are some of the most planet-intensive people in existence. One of the things we need to do in order to survive as a species is stop being consumption-oriented and they are the poster-children for consumption.

Partly it's that they do not perceive that the threat is to all of humanity, only to some of it, and they think the people who escape it will be the clever ones, who they imagine are the ones with money. They think that by becoming rich, they have avoided it, and that they are humanity's best chance.

Partly it's that they have a bunker in their basement that is prepper-stocked with what they imagine is everything they need and they just don't care about others.

Partly it's that although we revere them as super-smart for getting to where they are, we over-attribute intelligence and under-attribute sociopathy. So, yes, they don't care that much about others, but also they aren't in a lot of cases the smartest among us.

Partly it's that everything else they do they already model as saving humanity in one way or another, so the "high" of having these alleged bragging rights would not last long.

Partly it's that their notion of what "investing" in has nothing to do with outcomes you want to see in the world, and everything to do with what brings monetary return, which steers them in the wrong direction.

Partly they think there are too many people and it's good that most of them will die, so they are doing humanity a favor by culling its numbers. (I'm not going to get into the racial breakdown of the order in which people die, but there's probably a lot to be said there, too.)

Partly they may just do the calculation that there are cheaper ways to get adulation.

#climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDenial #collapse #extinction #billionaires #LateStageCapitalism #sociopathy #Consumption #AntiConsumption #sustainability #ClimateCulling

#Trump admin to dismantle key #climate #research center

#Project2025 architect #RussVought, who directs the White House Office of Management and Budget [#OMB], announced plans to split up the National Center for Atmospheric Research [#NCAR] in Boulder, Colorado, citing concerns about “climate alarmism.”

#ClimateDenial #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PublicHealth #wildlife #plantlife #ecosystems #science #conservation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/12/17/trump-national-center-atmospheric-research-climate/

Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
By EMILY ATKIN
https://heated.world/p/charlie-kirks-extremism-was-fossil #CharlieKirk #climateChange #fossilFuels #extremism #climateDenial #bigOil #conspiracyTheories #rightWingExtremism

Seeing this "But I had a few people after that say, thank you so much for speaking out. And I was grateful that the message got through, but I couldn’t help but wish that those people had actually said something in the moment, because I was looking into a sea of faces who were hostile and didn’t want to hear the science."
and recalling some incidents of protest etc
I am thinking that more of us should learn how not to sit 'there' stunned, but work out how to speak up for right. It's hard because our socialisations kicks in and our anxiety has us thinking slowly -all the more reason to have mentally (at least) rehearsed how to do better...
https://www.naturahoy.com/2024/07/the-problem-is-not-that-young-people-are-eco-anxious-its-that-people-in-positions-of-power-are-not-activist-clover-hogan/
#bystander #protest #ClimateDenial

Seeing this "But I had a few people after that say, thank you so much for speaking out. And I was grateful that the message got through, but I couldn’t help but wish that those people had actually said something in the moment, because I was looking into a sea of faces who were hostile and didn’t want to hear the science."
and recalling some incidents of protest etc
I am thinking that more of us should learn how not to sit 'there' stunned, but work out how to speak up for right. It's hard because our socialisations kicks in and our anxiety has us thinking slowly -all the more reason to have mentally (at least) rehearsed how to do better...
https://www.naturahoy.com/2024/07/the-problem-is-not-that-young-people-are-eco-anxious-its-that-people-in-positions-of-power-are-not-activist-clover-hogan/
#bystander #protest #ClimateDenial