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“What we have on our hands is a species problem. None of us is exempt… People – communities, castes, races and even countries – carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market.” (Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, pp 194/5,…
The script isn’t Tarantino. Theresa May is hardly Mrs Blonde. But Britain’s Brexit debate is becoming a painful form of national torture that could have been plucked straight from Reservoir Dogs.
If there are seminal moments in politics, Jeremy Corbyn’s speech at the 2018 Labour Conference will go down as one of then. This was when the planet took centre stage.
It wasn’t the 130 forest fires raging across the USA that got to me, nor the UK’s moorland fires, the torrential storms hitting Belfast with 2 months rain in 2 hours, the lightning strikes that took out …
When I was a child there was a low wall not far from my nan’s house. It was lined with the nobbled ‘knuckles’ of what had once been an iron-railing fence.
It was one of the biggest infrastructure projects in human history. For much of the 1930’s, and at a cost of 3.3bn francs, France built itself a 900-mile network of tunnels, underground bunkers…
Transformation Moment
My pamphlet 'Transformation Moment' is intended to support the case for a radical shift in energy thinking; as much about democracy as technology, and about 'systems' rather than just supply.
European Court of Justice says Britain does not have to do Brexit 'jump without a parachute'. Brexiteers insist we must - 'there's a whole world of free-fall trade agreements just waiting to catch us'. Would rather believe in Santa.
Safe politics? So, May has opted for a temporary 'withdrawal of withdrawal' Brexit plan. This is the new politicus interuptus - guaranteed to satisfy no one.
not saying it’s exactly like WW1 but a lot of people thought the Brexit wrangling would be over by Christmas
Crazy. Like having a Zero-Carbon Manchester plan with a 'just don't mention the airport' clause attached.
This right here encapsulates the gulf that remains: both positions that are not going to move the other.
On Thurs Green Cllr Jacqi Hodgson wil put a motion to @DevonCC calling on cllrs to declare a Climate Emergency, pledge to make #Devon carbon neutral by 2030 & report within 6 months what actions the Council will take.
Full motion here:
#ExtinctionRebelion
Agenda item - Declare a Climate Emergency | Democracy in Devon
democracy.devon.gov.uk
It's not a new point, but the fact this is not the top item on every news bulletin on the planet really is a big part of the problem
'Deeply concerning': Global CO2 emissions set to rise to record high in 2018
Major study points to worrying reversal of decarbonisation trend in 2018 with emissions set to hit record highs,Climate change,Politics ,carbon budget...
www.businessgreen.com
Complete rubbish.
1. The Euro-Right grows by pandering to separatism.
2. Trade Union democracy is rooted in members/people having the final 'informed' say, and
3. The real need is to redistribute wealth not rekindle prejudice.
Zac Goldsmith just warned that any successful attempt to overturn Brexit will leave the UK susceptible to the rise of far-right parties - as has happened across mainland Europe in recent months
Also worth mentioning this week's SNP support for Tory 'transferable tax histories', allowing up to £50bn of oil decommissioning costs to be passed from corporations to taxpayers. Can't wait to see which SNP Budget this surfaces in.
@NicolaSturgeon @UNFCCC More fluff & nonsense! The opening of the new Clair Ridge field in the N.Sea certainly makes Scotland “world leading” in heading for 3 to 5°C. We need policy makers to play a straight bat as physics & the climate don’t respond to rhetoric, only action. Time to show leadership!
So coal is to be the 'hidden charm' that delivers the 'collapse of civilisation' Attenborough warns about.
Soap, earnings, cufflinks and necklets: the baubles of insanity.
The Polish pavilion is indeed a eulogy to coal or, as it calls it, "black gold". There is coal soap, coal earrings, coal cufflinks and necklets. Coal is described as "incredibly soft and fragile" and a "challenging material" praised as "a hidden charm". Not a joke 👇
We've deleted an earlier version of this video that incorrectly described Sir David Attenborough as a 'naturist.' We of course meant to describe him as a naturalist. We regret the error.