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Great essay, great research, shocking/disgusting Leftist garbage from the Royal Society. BUT PLEASE PLEASE learn to precis! Most people are busy, bombarded with equally shocking/disgusting news but the nation is DROWNING in news/videos/essays, we just haven't the time to watch/read it all. Only short, succinct and concise will have any impact. LESS IS MORE! And the BBC hasn't been around for a century yet.

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Most interesting. And I will try to watch the RS/BBC video but I'm not promising anything.

I disagree with the term "eco-communist" though for the Royal Society's theologians. "Eco-feudalists" is much nearer.

Communists are by definition people who understand capitalism (or try to.) What's striking about the experts you quote is their complete detachment from historical and scientific data, as your article makes clear. Their "big argument" about intrinsic relationships ..with nature" and "senses of identity, sense of place, cultural relationships and rituals" is entirely subjective. At best , it's about aesthetics, but more likely an appeal to a cosy feeling of a nice picnic in the countryside.

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When the WHO named COVID-19 a "Public Health Emergency on International Concern", emergency powers were enacted within all of the signatory countries. These powers turn the governments into "parliamentary dictatorships", justified because of the threat underlying the emergency. Despite normal coronavirus prevailing, the PHEIC designation continues in place. Our governments continue to have emergency powers and I posit that, as the present Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards puts it, the parliamentary dictatorship is "choos(ing) to preserve the legislature as a continued pretence to mask its authoritarianism... it has ceased to be a Parliamentary democracy in any meaningful sense." (https://www.danielgreenberg.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Parliamentary-Democracy-and-Parliamentary-Dictatorship-29-January-2023.pdf). Therefore, I conclude that the "science-free ideological set-pieces" are propaganda, "legally" published by Government operating under continuing emergency powers enabling authoritarian control. As Daniel Greenberg puts it "when that happens in any country, as it does from time to time over the years, the ultimate losers are always the demos– the entire people – whose holistic interests a Parliamentary democracy is designed to protect." The WHO's disproportionate, ongoing PHEIC designation for coronavirus, is being used as a cover to further the interests and control of the already very wealthy, under the guise of the UN's "Sustainable Development Goals" . In essence, it is imperative to scrutinise and ultimately terminate these emergency powers, thereby ensuring that the judiciary can operate independently and uphold the principles of democracy and accountability without the constraints imposed by authoritarian measures.

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As ever an excellent piece - my own substack on Net Zero based on Junk science is here - https://open.substack.com/pub/tomed/p/net-zero-is-based-on-junk-data?r=1mpf65&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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