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urlyman, 6 days ago to random

I saw about 3 questions’ worth of the #itvdebate last night. It was as facile as I expected.

The dynamic of it was something like this:

Q: these floorboards and the ones of the floor beneath and the ones of the floor beneath that, are riddled with dry rot. How will you make this building safe?

Sunak: our oil investments will allow us to put a nice oil finish on all the floors

Starmer: that’s ridiculous! We will use wax

urlyman, 6 days ago to random

Rhetorical question:
Is Farage a total stunt

ht @PabloMartini https://climatejustice.social/@PabloMartini/112560525792401615

urlyman, 6 days ago to random

The modern web:

Disables JavaScript in order to get a Daily Mirror web page to load at all.

Enables JavaScript in order to get a link to Twitter to load at all

urlyman, 7 days ago to random

There’s a Guardian article from Fiona Harvey today, which links to https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/20/richest-1-account-for-more-carbon-emissions-than-poorest-66-report-says from November last year, citing that…

the richest 1% of people in the world are responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than the bottom 2/3rds.

So how much wealth does one need to be in the world’s richest 1%?

Knight Frank had some answers to that in 2021: https://www.knightfrank.com/research/article/2021-03-01-how-much-wealth-gets-you-into-the-global-top-1

In the UK, at the time, it was $3.3 million, which was about £2.4 million.

London’s average property price is ~£700k

urlyman, 7 days ago to random

#climateDiary
TIL that Graham Stringer, who has been the Labour MP for Blackley and Broughton since 1997, and is running again, has been a Trustee of the disaster-capitalism, climate science denying Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) since 2015.

That’ll really help build Great British Energy
🙄🙄🙄

https://www.thegwpf.org/labour-and-conservative-mps-join-gwpf/

urlyman, 7 days ago to random

“The AI analyst Azeem Azhar recently recalled being in a meeting with 100 CFOs who were discussing the promise of generative AI to cut labor costs.

‘Let’s just say they were like cats surrounding a group of baby starlings — and let’s just say the lips were being licked’, he said”

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/understanding-the-real-threat-generative

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

#ge2024 #democracy
Keir Starmer is claiming that Labour represents CHANGE… while offering as little change as possible.

Why does change rarely amount to any change at all?
Why do we fail to change?
What would we have to do to make change possible?

In October 2019, David Runciman explored those questions in a 50-minute lecture at Wolfson College, Cambridge, plus 10 minutes of Q&A 👉 https://youtu.be/avX636h4mzE?si=7RIcCGtXe4FUPC4x

urlyman, 8 days ago to random

Got a feeling that the UK centre ground hasn’t shifted that much since 2019. It’s just that the parties have.

The Tories are now way to the right of most of the people that voted for them in 2019.

And Labour are now roughly Cameron with an extra authoritarian topping.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s capitulation

urlyman, 9 days ago to random

The thing that is so draining about the immigration debate is how it dances around dynamics that have nothing to do with why there is mass migration.

Stop the boats, if it were to be meaningful at all on its own misanthropic terms, would mean actively unwinding capitalist colonialism.

So that there were fewer people needing to flee deathly situations.

That the actual tactics do nothing whatsoever to even contemplate such policy change guarantees the creep towards fascism

urlyman, 9 days ago to random

“What if you knew, not only in your head, but in your bones, that in the next 10 to 20 years, what is viable today will no longer be the case?

What would you be doing today?”

https://overcast.fm/+2tlWtyisQ

urlyman, 11 days ago to random

2006: Nick Stern, commissioned by Labour: “We need to spend 1% of GDP on climate-related policy”.

2008: Nick Stern: “I was wrong, it should be 2%”.

2021: Labour: “We’ll spend £28 bn a year” (1.3% of GDP)

2023: International Energy Agency (IEA) “Global investment in clean energy must reach $4.5 trillion by 2030” (2.5% of GDP)

2024: Labour (whispers) “we’ll spend £8.3 bn over 5 years” (0.07% GDP per year)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9xxpypr8d0o

ht @markhburton

#climateDiary

urlyman, 11 days ago to random

34 orange whipped
#trump

The Blues Brothers dancing with Ray Charles on piano in the background.

urlyman, 12 days ago to random

This interview with Vanessa Andreotti on ‘Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity’ is great.

I’m only 20 minutes in so far, but what she has already said – e.g. about education – makes a lot of sense to me

Page:
https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/125-vanessa-andreotti

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kQ7_IZ8YI

PDF transcript:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d5bc2bb737636144dc55d0/t/66561b6371d13e15ce3d5deb/1716919139197/TGS+125+Vanessa+Andreotti+Transcript.pdf

#climateDiary

urlyman, 13 days ago to random

I just saw a beige.party poll with 50 ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-choices 🥴

urlyman, 13 days ago to random

Hello climate journalists.

If you’re not helping your readers see the scale of what needs changing and the time available to do it, and beginning to clarify the choices which might fit both…

you are not helping your readers

#climateDiary