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#EnvironmentalTaliban ? If don’t know what this is about, Google “Minister rounds on ‘environmental Taliban’” @GregBarkerMP @JeremyLeggett
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@GregBarkerMP May I politely point you to the fact that without rapid increase in solar power we will fail our renewable energy commitments
18 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP And, that without subsidies, no new deployment of technology can lift itself off the ground by its bootstraps
17 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP Hence, we are obliged, under our carbon emissions commitments, to either obtain private or public financing of solar power
16 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP It is of no help at such a time to refer to limits to allocation of financial budgets. Need I remind you that in World War II
15 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP (for we need a wartime analogy in all arguments) that if the Treasury had said the cupboard was bare we could not have played
14 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP our dutiful part in the levelisation and humiliation and genocide in Germany that was our “divine calling”. But leaving the
13 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP delicate matter of whether warfare is a moral, sanctionable collection of acts of inhuman violence completely aside, we do
13 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP need to address the question of inter-generational climate damages – we are bequeathing to our descendents, both political and
12 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP physical a world of untold and chaotic disaster if we do not pitch in with the effort to deploy renewable energy at speed
11 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP A stop-go-stop approach, as cheered on by your right-wing-budget-control-freak allies does not assist with the general rollout
10 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP What we need, dear fellow, at this time of intense crisis, is to commit ourselves fully to industry for zero carbon energy
10 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP Our duty to develop and deploy renewable energy technologies and extreme conservation measures will require the use of funds
9 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP The most cost-efficient way to fund renewable and sustainable energy is, as ever, through public revenue collection
8 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP Sharing the cost burden is what has made this country great – the National Insurance scheme costs each of us mere pennies
8 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP We have publicly-funded roads, schools, hospitals. We have, in fact, learned that socialist expenditure is a good bargain
7 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP Far from being religious fundamentalists, those who urge public tax and spend to support sustainable energy revival are
6 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP in fact the political children of people who want to tread lightly, through peaceful means, not violent. And so we turn again
4 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP to the question of the military budget. This is large, and unwarranted if we were to abandon following the USA into war
3 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP And so I propose that we shave a tad from the nation’s publicly-funded search and destroy mission and put up solar farms.
2 minutes ago
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@GregBarkerMP As a man of peace, I know you will accept my recommendations with grace.
1 minute ago