I didn't watch the #ClimateDebate live, but caught up on highlights with my kid yesterday.
To state the obvious, it was great to see the party leaders who stand for a livable planet together, why the anti-planet party leaders were melting lumps of ice. 1/

Well done @Channel4 and if Bully Boy Boris comes for your license or anything like that, I will definitely dust off the torches and pitchforks and help stop it.
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As to party performance, it really struck me that @joswinson & @LibDems were talking as though we were still in the 1990s. Everything was about "making it easier & cheaper" to be green, and the way the market and international consensus could help deal with climate change. 2/

It was almost as though the last 30 years of climate failure in pure market mechanisms and international diplomacy had never happened. @joswinson even mentioned the success in dealing with the hole in the ozone - again this was a 90s talking point, before people realized ... 3/

just how extraordinarily different CO2 is: resulting not from a marginal industrial activity, but a core one (energy), with no off-the-shelf cheap replacements. So for me, despite the name-checking of hedgehogs (always nice), 4/

the @LibDems position on climate is an outdated, wishful-thinking reality-free zone which might have been appropriate 3 decades ago. Sorry @LibDems - I thought you were more serious than that. 5/

I'm not going to talk about @NicolaSturgeon & @theSNP except to say: need to stop the North Sea oil & gas extraction and get started on a just transition. Anything else is avoiding the hard work to hand, and Scots are good at facing hard work. Get on to it. 6/

And the @Plaid_Cymru leader @Adamprice . He seems like a nice person, I love Wales and want to retire there and learn Welsh, but he's wrong about dairy/meat and the carbon capture potential of grasslands. Not my area of specialism, I'll leave the details to someone else. 7/

On to @UKLabour and @jeremycorbyn . Again, amazing to see major party take this topic seriously and pledge major action. Swoon, delight, etc. HOWEVER, the emphasis was entirely on funding attractive green infrastructure, coupled with reluctance to shut down brown. 8/

I agree public green infrastructure investment, & the green industrial revolution, is essential. Wonderful. Can't wait to get to it on Dec 13th. But shutting down private/brown (like flights, unnecessary car travel, etc) is even more essential from the perspective of climate. 9/

So for me, the @UKLabour was still not a climate emergency position of 2019, but maybe closer to 2000, in terms of the strength of the position compared to the reality of the climate crisis. MUCH better than @LibDems, but still very insufficient. 10/

Which is a long thread to say that the only party on stage, represented by the amazing @sianberry , who have a position coherent and consistent with our moment in time, at scale with planetary action, are @TheGreenParty . 11/ https://twitter.com/jrockstrom/status/1199965936205389824

The others are catching up, but still stuck in the past. @TheGreenParty is still out front, leading the way.
Now, I have been canvassing and campaigning for Labour. I admire and support many candidates and the social manifesto as a whole. 12/

I encourage tactical voting against the Tories, full stop. But if you are in a safe Labour seat, voting Green sends a signal. That @TheGreenParty plays an essential role in our political discourse, and that @UKLabour needs their voice to keep catching up to act on climate. End/

* "why" in first tween = "while". Gah.