Dutch evening TV news (NPO Journaal) is rather more informative about British history than the (dutifully curated) BBC: “As a former colony that long fought against British rule, Ireland recognises the Palestinian struggle against oppression.”
Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.
Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."
@alanferrier#alt4you Cover of The New Statesman depicting Big Ben sinking into churning mud. Headline The Great Stink, subtitle "How Britain's water companies turned pollution into profit" but with "Britain's" stricken out and "England's" substituted.
I'd love to retoot this but screenreader users and others who can't load images get left out of (an unknown amount of!) the conversation - it's such an important one!
@lostsettler Tidal drag actually increases the height of the Moon's orbit. It slows the Earth's rotation transferring angular momentum to the Moon. This increases the Moon's orbital energy while decreasing the kinetic energy of the Earth( However the vast majority of the energy lost by the Earth is lost as heat.
Tidal energy extraction would very slightly increase this effect, slowing the Earth more and increasing the Moon's distance. But we're talking about a minuscule increase.
@simon_brooke fair enough, we swap coastal erosion for electrons, then.
That slowing of rotation though. One face world anyone? Is that the same with wind turbines, too?
(Not a flat earther, btw, and probably even with millions of turbines it'll take hundreds of thousands of years or more, I dunno, for any appreciable effect, just not seen the maths)
@alanferrier Portugal is over 90% renewables and the cheapest electricity in europe
The UK is blessed with huge renewable potential (esp in #Scotland) , nuclear isnt available in the short term and in the long term shouldnt be necessary
There are quicker, cheaper, greener, safer options
@Wen@alanferrier I agree about brexiters - they voted to limit their childrens' opportunities and that's exactly what they achieved. But for IndyRef1 I understood the "better the devil you know" idea even though I didn't agree with it.
With everything that's happened since though (and continues to happen), I have no idea how anyone still believes Unionism is in their and their childrens' best interests.
Imagine living in a world where you can be arrested or sacked for saying please don't kill children because it might hurt the feelings of the child killers.
That'd be the Nelson Mandela who said in 1997 that the ANC's struggle was ongoing. “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.”