It seems so obvious that I struggle to understand how people fail to see it. Starmer tells us that *WE* have to stop Reform by voting Labour, whereas *HE* could do it by introducing PR. But then we'd lose any remaining incentive to vote for his party.
“Overthrow our demand for them, and we overthrow much of the current tyranny. Greener, cleaner, cheaper, kinder, fairer: what a beautiful world we could have.”
“Concentrated fossil power leads to concentrated political power. Had we been less dependent on fossil fuels, there might have been no President Trump, no President Putin, no ayatollahs, no Prime Minister Netanyahu. Fossil fuels push the world towards autocracy. “
I have a lot of respect for Prof Bullock - always spot on.
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce, beavers are woke!
Guess those renewables and regenerative agriculture aren’t “unfeasible” now.
Happy International Womens’ Day I guess.
Stop celebrating “strong” women. We don’t want you to clap for us. We want a world where we don’t have to be “strong” and carry the world on our shoulders.
Just stop trashing the planet and our lives.
I’m not berating. I’m pointing out hypocrisy and people not looking at or wanting to accept the bigger picture.
If you have an issue with that, you need to do some self reflection.
This is the way in any social movement. And it’ll eventually become mainstream. And when that happens, just like with the emo bands, I’ll be telling you I was here before it was cool.
People talk about “sacrifices” of being vegan are the food you’ll no longer eat - cheese, chocolate, cream, eggs….
No one talks about the real sacrifices, the social implications. Becoming unpopular for not tolerating abuse. The bullying. The hostility.
Thanks for setting the example of hurting core values and egos
It’s easy to criticise AI because it’s new. Challenging meat and animal consumption challenges peoples’ core beliefs and what they’ve been indoctrinated with. It never fails to amaze me how much people will try to avoid uncomfortable feelings.
It’s like when people would obsess about plastic pollution in the seas, whilst eating seafood.
Ngl, drives me mad everyone goes on about how bad AI is for water use, pollution and fossil fuels, but then they don’t want to talk about animal agriculture. They’ll boast they don’t use AI because of the environment whilst eating a beef burger.
Trying to do environmentally friendly travel as possible, booked us a train trip to Aviemore. Looking forward to the adventure and documenting the pros and cons. Hoping to hire a bike to go bird watching too.
What happens in the Middle East impacts all of us. People continue to be murdered. Now is not the time to be silent. It’s the time to ramp it up. Don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Now is not the time to be quiet. It isn’t a ceasefire. It’s a stealth fire. Trump and his board of warmongers intend to use Gaza as a template. Replace the UN. Turbo charge the colonisation. Delete your rights.
“I know this government exists only to disappoint us. But its environmental failures are even more striking than its failures on other issues. When the ruling party compares unfavourably with the one that brought us Liz Truss, it’s worse than a betrayal. It’s a threat to our survival.”
It’s almost reassuring to know we’re not alone in being stonewalled. If even the security services are gagged when they tell the government what it doesn’t want to hear, perhaps our communication style, or our modes of protest or our dress sense, are not, as we keep being told, the problem”
“It provides a powerful vindication of certain messages that, when voiced by environmentalists, have been greeted with hatred, fury and denial.
“It echoes warnings some of us have made for years, only to be dismissed as nutters, doomsayers and extremists...“It is unlikely the UK would be able to maintain food security if ecosystem collapse drives geopolitical competition for food.”
Catching up on @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social
Interesting that even the Guardian didn’t mention the report strongly hints at being more plant based and significantly reducing animal agriculture.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Time to rethink the terminology. These areas are highly valuable, priceless, for our food security,
It’s funny how they call it “unproductive” land because it isn’t exploitable for high yield, yet it tends to often be the land most productive for ecosystem services - water and pollution absorption, carbon sequestration, biodiversity, clean air, clean water, soil health…
You are always so spot on and manage to articulate these issues so well, that’s why you have my respect. Thank you for this! We need to be focusing on consumption, land use, human, animal and environmental rights - it’s all interlinked.
It doesn’t mean sacrificing - it means having more in life - more community, health, nature and joy.
We won’t survive without Degrowth
A massive pet peeve of mine is when I am watching a documentary on British Wildlife, and there are cardinals singing in the background 😑
