Frank Rotering

Independent economic and political thinker. Environmental thought-criminal. Email: (first-name) (at)

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@ClimateBen @madlove_love "Cutting emissions" is incoherent as a climate measure because it reduces both GHGs and aerosols.
Always imagine TWO smokestacks: visible, cooling, short-lived aerosols and invisible, warming, long-lived GHGs. THEN a coherent response is possible.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

The third edition of "Youth Ecological Survival" is now available at https://t.co/QZgUrBrNRa.

For correspondence use email in bio.

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@IceGoingSouth @xr_cambridge This is a massively inaccurate portrayal of the book. I'm out.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@IceGoingSouth @xr_cambridge Then what are your specific criticisms?

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@IceGoingSouth @xr_cambridge Have you read my book? Do you have any specific criticisms?

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@xr_cambridge @Mara52041010 Fully agree. My proposed alternative to electoral politics is "deep politics", as described in chapter 5 of https://t.co/QZgUrB9ED2.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@PGDynes CCS/CCUS is an efficiency measure: reduces GHG/output ratio. Scaling isn't an issue - every such efficiency keeps some GHGs out of the atmosphere. You're judging cooling and efficiency measures by the same criteria - in my view an error.

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@PGDynes There is a clear distinction between the use of CCS/CCUS by capitalist corporations to continue BAU, and the use of this measure as part of the rational crisis response in a post-capitalist context. Are you conflating the two situations?

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@WoolybullyK @SteB777 The complexity of the current situation is indeed staggering. I've been at this - hard - for more than 30 years, studying the ecological, economic, political, and strategic aspects of the crisis. I now have a basic grasp, but that's about it.

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@PGDynes In https://t.co/QZgUrB9ED2 (p. 48) I suggest that SRM is taboo because it "... would be an open admission that the system has fundamentally failed ... The resulting cracks in capitalism's legitimacy could pose unacceptable revolutionary threats."
Any other explanations?

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@xr_cambridge Right - it's pure bullshit, and it will kill us.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@JDefarge @Mara52041010 For several extraordinary lies about the climate crisis by climate scientists themselves, see https://t.co/rajwWQcW1B.

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@WoolybullyK @SteB777 Right, but growth dependence is just one aspect of a completely unsustainable and grotesquely inhumane economic logic. See chapter 1 in https://t.co/dcDTrHQuN0 for details.

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@SteB777 Strongly agree: no more wishful thinking.
The system can be radically changed only through revolutionary action (my proposal: https://t.co/QZgUrB9ED2) and the implementation of a sustainable and humane economic theory (my proposal: https://t.co/dcDTrHQuN0).
Let's get to work!

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@xr_cambridge @PanFrater There's no point in belaboring the ridiculous. All our efforts should be directed at a workable strategy for revolutionary change and finding the militant leaders to implement it.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@MrMatthewTodd Yes - very serious question, and shocking that so few seem to ask it. The question underlies my book, "Youth Ecological Revolution" (https://t.co/QZgUrB9ED2).

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@PGDynes I think the "shine" part is important. People can get lost in the SRM details, but everyone can understand that it's simply an attempt to make the Earth more reflective, or shinier.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@A_refusenik As I describe in chapter 5 of https://t.co/QZgUrB9ED2, it's a highly sophisticated set of social-control techniques. These brilliantly exploit various attributes of human nature.

[Frank Rotering @RoteringFrank]

@energyisle Capitalist power.