Perhaps someone could publish it for him?
Modern civilization’s greatest failure, earth’s climate. Not a failure of science, but of control structures, failures of governments to act on humankind’s behalf.
The difference between stupidity and genius is, genius has a limit.
Greatest failure SO FAR!
This Labour government comes in at a close second though, as far as greatest failures go
The UK’S emissions are a drop in the ocean compared to various other nations, our marginal contribution is minuscule
Sure, but that’s a complete cop out.
Let’s say every nation produced exactly the same amount of emissions. There are about 200 nations in the world, so the best any nation could hope to do by itself is reduce worldwide emissions by about half a percent. If every nation took the same view, no reductions would ever get made.
As its stands, the UK produces about 0.81 percent of emissions, so they’re still polluting more than their fair share.
I feel like every story I hear out of the UK lately is some weird combination of stupid and vaguely dystopian.
Are things ok over there?
I don’t feel like any progress has been made in the past 25 years. Progress in some areas is offset by complete fuck ups in other areas
Bruh… Orwell literally wrote about how authoritarian the British government was in the 50s. Of course 1984 was highly exaggerated at that point, but the point still stands.
No, the world’s former premier colonizer is not okay. All that shit they did is turning inwards, just like in US. Not saying the common person deserves is, unlike weird tankies fetishizing suffering of the west as some kind of karmaic justice. The Global South is still suffering too. No one is having a good time.
Are things ok anywhere?
There was a pretty good day localized to my apartment yesterday 🤷🏻
Maybe they’re worried how extreme emigration would get if people knew what the UK was going to look like? Think of the flood of capital out.
Edit: to make it clear: emigration is when people leave a country.
AMOC shutting down and -35 to -50ºC winter temperatures in the next 80 years?
Worst case of course.
Yeah… Europe will soon find out how great they had things at such a high latitude.
Aka what being on the edge of the Arctic Circle feels like without AMOC.
Emeritus Professor Bill McGuire gives a good precies here
Neolib climate killers.
He doesn’t want to yell “Fire!” in a crowded theatre.
More like he doesn’t want to vindicate the people who’ve been screaming their lungs out for the last decades, while being victimized and brutalized.
