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Stephen Hinton

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Investor in Peace, developing the Real Capital Framework, local politician Co-Founder investorsinpeace.substack.com

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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The tools exist. The choice is political." This essay explores why combining MMT with Doughnut Economics may provide one of the most complete frameworks yet for social justice and ecological resilience. 👉 www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #MMT #DoughnutEconomics #Ecology #FutureEconomy
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MMT and Doughnut Economics: A Foundation for Dialogue | Stephen Hinton
Introduction At first glance, Modern Monetary Theory and Doughnut Economics might appear to come from different worlds. MMT is a macroeconom
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If a currency-issuing government can always fund the social foundation, why do poverty and ecological collapse persist? This essay argues they're not economic necessities. They're political choices. 👉 www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #MMT #PoliticalEconomy #DoughnutEconomics #Climate
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MMT and Doughnut Economics: A Foundation for Dialogue | Stephen Hinton
Introduction At first glance, Modern Monetary Theory and Doughnut Economics might appear to come from different worlds. MMT is a macroeconom
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
MMT tells us money isn't the constraint. Doughnut Economics tells us what the real constraints are. What happens when you put the two together? A compelling case for a new economic framework. 🍩🌍 👉 www.patreon.com/StephenHinto...
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MMT and Doughnut Economics: A Foundation for Dialogue | Stephen Hinton
Introduction At first glance, Modern Monetary Theory and Doughnut Economics might appear to come from different worlds. MMT is a macroeconom
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This week, we celebrate CODEPINK's 24th anniversary. From the invasion of Iraq to the war on Iran, we continue to oppose U.S. wars and militarism. Support us as we continue our work for peace 💗 codepink.org/support2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. forms.gle/vAARd7mv2yS7...
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Economics provides no justification for trashing the environment. The decision is political. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto...
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Excuses for Pollution are Dead: If Money Is Not the Constraint, Why Are We Still Destroying the Real Economy? | Stephen Hinton
One of the most important insights of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is also one of its simplest: for a sovereign currency issuer, money is no
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who would have thought that the ISO standards work could throw up a way for science, policy, politics and finance to talk to each other? Line of sight is extremely useful. stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/from-scien...
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From Science to Policy: Using “Line of Sight” to Make Research Matter
Joining up silos in this complicated modern world
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I love the Committee Against Bird Slaughter - ordinary people taking direct action against illegal bird hunting and trapping Conservation shouldn't just be left to conservationists!
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can hear his full interview, here: BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals share.google/I2CicJIBfhhL...
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BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, Blood tests in Lancashire reveal cancer-causing chemicals
People living near a factory have higher levels of a so-called 'forever chemical'
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why oh why do we think of ourselves as consumers? Nature has none. The poor thinking embedded in economics. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto...
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Don't let economics fool you into thinking you are a consumer | Stephen Hinton
Economics puts individual households in their model as consumers. Consumption is the far end of a long chain of production. For many, consum
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This year has been brutal, and like most people you probably want to do more about climate change. But what, and how? Great news – I’ve written just the book for you! It’s called What One Person Can Do and it’s a clear and simple how-to guide, a roadmap to help you make influential changes...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I conclude that MMT needs to stop using the LENS metaphor it if wants to enter the circles of economic science. And that it should address full on the fact that budgets kill people and planet. stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/mmt-needs-...
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MMT Needs to Move Beyond the “Lens” Metaphor
If Modern Monetary Theory Wants a Place in Economic Science, It Must State Its Theories Clearly
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can impact investing move beyond ESG checkboxes and actually build resilient economies? This article explores a practical framework that connects capital with real-world needs. Read more: 📚 www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #ImpactInvesting #SustainableInvesting #ClimateFinance #RegenerativeFinance
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Applying the Real Capital Framework to Impact Investing | Stephen Hinton
How can investors create financial returns while helping build a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable economy? The Real Capital Framew
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Money can be owned. Assets can be owned. Accounts can be owned. But who owns the atmosphere, biodiversity, or the Earth's atoms? A reflection on ownership, stewardship, and common assets. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #Commons #MMT #Ecology
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Measuring the Unmeasurable? A Note on Susan Borden's Four Imperatives | Stephen Hinton
In her article Susan Borden - Donella, the Doughnut, and Deficits that Matter, Susan Borden proposes what might be understood as four founda
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can planetary boundaries be reduced to a monetary value? Or should ecology remain an independent scientific constraint that economics must respect rather than price? That's the question at the heart of this piece. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #MMT #PlanetaryBoundaries #DoughnutEconomics
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Measuring the Unmeasurable? A Note on Susan Borden's Four Imperatives | Stephen Hinton
In her article Susan Borden - Donella, the Doughnut, and Deficits that Matter, Susan Borden proposes what might be understood as four founda
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"We warn readers that the content of this study is confronting and possibly distressing" I've never seen a trigger warning in the abstract of a research paper before This study estimates there were 2.2 million Indigenous Australians before British colonisation share.google/eCcqV6xHaVSx...
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's here. The handbook of advocacy inspired by @charliejgardner.bsky.social, @thierryaaron.bsky.social and more. How to use science to influence policy. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto...
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From Anger to Advocacy - the manual | Stephen Hinton
The first version of our manual is out for review. It explains how to create a science-based brief to inform advocacy and activist groups
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Whatever your preferred economic theory—MMT, neoclassical, Keynesian, ecological economics, post-Keynesian—what information should a government be required to possess about its real capital before it makes a national budget? If you say none you MUST be a true economist. patreon.com/stephenhinton
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
National budget approvers (Like in Sweden the Riksdag) do not currently have explicit statutory duties to assess the effect of the budget on national natural resources like metal stocks, lakes, soils, and forests—nor to identify the firms pressuring those assets. Biggest law gap of the centuary?
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Where should impact investors deploy capital for the greatest long-term impact? Housing Energy Regenerative agriculture Water systems 🏗️ Local infrastructure This framework offers a compelling answer: 👉 www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #GreenInvestment #SustainableFinance #FutureOfFinance
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Applying the Real Capital Framework to Impact Investing | Stephen Hinton
How can investors create financial returns while helping build a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable economy? The Real Capital Framew
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A new green socialist manifesto. stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/a-thought-...
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A thought experiment: what would a modern eco-socialist manifesto look like?
Workers: We have nothing to lose but the tyranny of the capitalist law of value
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Britain: pours too much shit into its rivers and takes too much water out. Should they be allowed to have rivers at all?
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Peter Lipman @peterlipman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’ bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/j...
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Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
.Saying we need to transition from fossil fuels and having executives not doing it is who we have become.
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Poverty, inequality, pollution are not the bad ends of good decisions, they ARE the decisions. www.patreon.com/StephenHinto...
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MMT should not be capitalism's excuse for survival | Stephen Hinton
Modern Monetary Theory arrives dressed as a revolution but often behaves like an accountant with a larger cheque book. It's not the fault of
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Inför valet - hur mycket har partier koll på hur ekonomin fungerar? Kan de skilja mellan kapital och resurser? Mellan upplupna underhållsskulder och vinster? Vet de om att vi övergav restriktionerna av guldmyntfot om statliga utgifter för länge sedan? www.linkedin.com/posts/stephe...
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Bevisat: ekonomikunskaper är bristvara | Stephen Hinton
Inför valet tycker jag att det är viktig att fundera på hur mycket partier har koll på hur ekonomin fungerar. Kan de skilja mellan kapital och resurser? Mellan upplupna underhållsskulder och vinster? ...
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is no reasonable way a government can claim it needs to have firms in the country pollute and deplete so it can get back tax money. It is a breach of the government's authority. MMT proves this. stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/the-pollut...
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The Pollution Excuse Is Dead: If Money Is Not the Constraint, Why Are We Still Destroying the Real Economy?
MMT must get a backbone
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There is no reasonable way a government can claim it needs to have firms in the country pollute and deplete so it can get back tax money. It is a breach of the government's authority. MMT proves this. stephenhinton584706.substack.com/p/the-pollut...
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The Pollution Excuse Is Dead: If Money Is Not the Constraint, Why Are We Still Destroying the Real Economy?
MMT must get a backbone
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Scientists on Survival @scientistsonsurviv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just Stop Oil made a comeback this afternoon, blocking the road outside Parliament for several hours. JSO are acting on the science that shows new oil and gas means more fires, more floods and more deaths.... Will the UK government do the same? #StopRosebank #JustStopOil
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Dr Tom Harris @drtomharris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why are climate impacts consistently under-predicted? The short answer: Science is moving at the speed of rigorous peer review, whilst the planet is warming at a rate unmatched in 66 million years. drtomharris.substack.com/p/why-have-c... #climatechange #IPCC #climateimpacts #ParisAgreement
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Why have climate impacts been underestimated?
Records are tumbling and impacts not expected until mid-century are now hitting every continent - what happened?
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dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
How is it difficult for a government that creates all the money it spends to nationalise the failing water industry? #MMT
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Tom Hickmore @tomhickmore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you can be arsed to read the small print, here's a copy of my latest letter to the BBC Today programme regarding their absurdly misleading coverage of economics. If you are #MMT curious, maybe you could back me up on this? The bias is hugely consequential and favours neoliberalism.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
You have to choose. You can't be nice to everyone. Appeasing corporations and billionaires means abandoning everyone else. When it comes to policy, it's us or them. And for far too long political leaders in this country have sided with them. If Burnham is to survive, this is what he needs to change.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
On my train to London yesterday the tannoy urged me "if you see something, say something" That's exactly why I came See it, say it... sorted?
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The evolution of the Real Capital Framework The development of the Real Capital Framework (RCF) has evolved from a conceptual tool designed to bridge the gap between scientific research and public policy into a rigorous, operational system for managing regional resilience. Phase 1: Bridging the…
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The evolution of the Real Capital Framework
The development of the Real Capital Framework (RCF) has evolved from a conceptual tool designed to bridge the gap between scientific research and public policy into a rigorous, operational system for managing regional resilience. Phase 1: Bridging the Science-to-Policy Gap The initial spark for the Real Capital Framework came from a fundamental frustration with how society translates scientific insights into action.
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
En skylt säger allt
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Economics teaches that markets allocate resources efficiently. But what if the most profitable activities are also the most destructive? What can we do? A provocative argument: www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #EconomicsTwitter #ClimateEconomics
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Capitalism can never reform itself. It has to be put back in the box. | Stephen Hinton
Why can't it reform itself? This is the most difficult truth for reformers to accept. Not because it is obscure—but because it is so obvious
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Now on my Patreon shop, free to subscribers, the Handbook that uses the power of the Real Capital Framework to inform and support advocacy. Link in comments.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
“We prefer to take our chance with cholera than be bullied into health. There is nothing a man hates so much as being cleansed against his will or having his floor swept, his hall whitewashed, his dung heaps cleared away and his thatch forced to give way to slate.” — Extract from The Times in 1852
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Thomas Piketty wrote the hugely successful "Capital in the 21st Century." He's long been sounding the alarm on neoliberalism. It was great to sit down with him and talk economics, solutions and what's next for politics. youtu.be/d_83pFubGvQ?...
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How We Build An Economic Future For All | Thomas Piketty
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What happens if the government pays for nature restoration? A worked example for Sweden The EU Nature Restoration Regulation changes the conversation in a fundamental way. It is no longer enough to say that nature should be protected in principle; the new question is how restoration will actually…
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What happens if the government pays for nature restoration? A worked example for Sweden
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation changes the conversation in a fundamental way. It is no longer enough to say that nature should be protected in principle; the new question is how restoration will actually be financed, implemented, and distributed across the economy. That is a political question, but it is also an accounting question, because restoration spending does not happen in a vacuum.
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The real choice isn't "save nature" OR "protect the economy." It's whether we invest in the systems that sustain prosperity or pay a much larger price later. Read: What Happens When We Pay for Nature Restoration? www.patreon.com/StephenHinto... #NatureRestoration #EconomicPolicy #FutureProofing
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What happens when we pay for nature restoration? A practical financing case from Sweden | Stephen Hinton
The EU Nature Restoration Regulation changes the conversation in a fundamental way. It is no longer enough to say that nature should be prot
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Former soldier and engineer, @carlbenfield.bsky.social joins @zackpolanski.bsky.social "We need an immediate COBRA-level response. We need climate change reinstated at the top of our defence and security agenda. And we need the bold leadership of Zack Polanski for our nation. Thank you."
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Coin with value of one tree
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Stephen Hinton @shinton.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We need new institutions that take the tenets of #MMT seriously open.substack.com/pub/stephenh...
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We need new institutions with new perspectives on economic planning
An end to fiscal primacy
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is what I think of when people complain that climate activists are 'disruptive'
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