Would like to hear what 'normal' America is going to do, since you're talking pulling the system down. I assume you don't think voting MAGA out is going to be possible or if so, won't cut it? I can see heavy mid-term losses in US causing MAGA to go full-on with ballot box stuffing in 2028.
December 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Would like to hear what 'normal' America is going to do, since you're talking pulling the system down. I assume you don't think voting MAGA out is going to be possible or if so, won't cut it? I can see heavy mid-term losses in US causing MAGA to go full-on with ballot box stuffing in 2028.
Had to go and watch some Tom & Jerry to work out what a rake-step was 😆 - but if so, good. I understand from heresay that populist governments are very good at getting power and losing power, not never much good at keeping it. Danger is tho their preferred way of keeping power is to rig elections
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Had to go and watch some Tom & Jerry to work out what a rake-step was 😆 - but if so, good. I understand from heresay that populist governments are very good at getting power and losing power, not never much good at keeping it. Danger is tho their preferred way of keeping power is to rig elections
to any pricing mechanism? The problem is all the half-arsed attempts to put a price on carbon. Makes it seem impossible until you realise it's just the political will that is impossible.
December 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
to any pricing mechanism? The problem is all the half-arsed attempts to put a price on carbon. Makes it seem impossible until you realise it's just the political will that is impossible.
What we should aim for is much greater use of websites like climatefeedback.org to centralise the debunking and offer an easily searchable home for people to check up on whether the information they are suspicious about is fake or not.
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December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
What we should aim for is much greater use of websites like climatefeedback.org to centralise the debunking and offer an easily searchable home for people to check up on whether the information they are suspicious about is fake or not.
You can lead a horse to water.
December 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
You can lead a horse to water.
Oh absolutely - carbon tunnel vision is not good, but the Project Drawdown solutions would also benefit the water resources situation. I don't think there are any other ethical solutions for the issue though.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Oh absolutely - carbon tunnel vision is not good, but the Project Drawdown solutions would also benefit the water resources situation. I don't think there are any other ethical solutions for the issue though.
I think you have to recognise that pro-natalism is just part and parcel of the general neoliberal narrative, and it's that narrative which is still so astoundingly dominant, not just overpopulation and pro-natalism. We're trying to use an 19th century philosophy for a completely different world.
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I think you have to recognise that pro-natalism is just part and parcel of the general neoliberal narrative, and it's that narrative which is still so astoundingly dominant, not just overpopulation and pro-natalism. We're trying to use an 19th century philosophy for a completely different world.
What Project Drawdown proposes isn't colonialist, at least not if done right and admittedly there's a lot of scope for doing it wrong. And Project Drawdown shows precisely how much of the decarbonisation pie chart these solutions represent.
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
What Project Drawdown proposes isn't colonialist, at least not if done right and admittedly there's a lot of scope for doing it wrong. And Project Drawdown shows precisely how much of the decarbonisation pie chart these solutions represent.
i have to admit I don't see the point in overemphasising overpopulation in comparison with everything else. You've got it fair and square on the Project Drawdown chart - educate girls, and promote family planning. What else can you do, without sounding like a Victorian colonist?
December 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
i have to admit I don't see the point in overemphasising overpopulation in comparison with everything else. You've got it fair and square on the Project Drawdown chart - educate girls, and promote family planning. What else can you do, without sounding like a Victorian colonist?
We've racked our brains since then to find a way to make the trees worth more standing, but every way of doing so runs counter to our neoliberal mindset and was never seriously considered. When the neoliberal narrative weakens, as I believe is happening now, then we will have a chance.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
We've racked our brains since then to find a way to make the trees worth more standing, but every way of doing so runs counter to our neoliberal mindset and was never seriously considered. When the neoliberal narrative weakens, as I believe is happening now, then we will have a chance.
Hardly surprising since they are so severely degraded and exploited and have been since I was a student witnessing it in 1986. Whenever it looked like it might be stopped, the exploitation accelerated.
December 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hardly surprising since they are so severely degraded and exploited and have been since I was a student witnessing it in 1986. Whenever it looked like it might be stopped, the exploitation accelerated.
We absolutely are losing the war. Mainstream print media heavily influences all media and acts together with populist campaigns to change the framing of the situation in the public eye. Climate change is becoming less of an issue because of it. We must cut through by emphasising immediate impacts.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We absolutely are losing the war. Mainstream print media heavily influences all media and acts together with populist campaigns to change the framing of the situation in the public eye. Climate change is becoming less of an issue because of it. We must cut through by emphasising immediate impacts.
They are unfortunately a gang of narcissistic public school boys with an overgrown sense of entitlement. Their exploitation of the vestiges of the class system is totally crass.
November 28, 2025 at 1:02 PM
They are unfortunately a gang of narcissistic public school boys with an overgrown sense of entitlement. Their exploitation of the vestiges of the class system is totally crass.
Doesn't sound very sincere after their performance in COP30 blocking the Belem Action Mechanism
November 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Doesn't sound very sincere after their performance in COP30 blocking the Belem Action Mechanism
Neo-liberal society defines anything as revolutionary system change if it is not neo-liberalism. The reality is that any country's laws have been moulded to foster the neo-liberal mindset since Limits to Growth was rubbished in the 1970s. We require revolutionary changes, but not a revolution.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Neo-liberal society defines anything as revolutionary system change if it is not neo-liberalism. The reality is that any country's laws have been moulded to foster the neo-liberal mindset since Limits to Growth was rubbished in the 1970s. We require revolutionary changes, but not a revolution.
The part of capitalism that 20th century communist states should not have killed off was enterprise and entrepreneurship.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The part of capitalism that 20th century communist states should not have killed off was enterprise and entrepreneurship.
The middle path we aim for cannot just be a clever balance of neo-liberal and socialist. For instance, we have to find ways of internalising the economic "externalities" so that markets become less harmful without smothering them.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The middle path we aim for cannot just be a clever balance of neo-liberal and socialist. For instance, we have to find ways of internalising the economic "externalities" so that markets become less harmful without smothering them.
Indeed, a middle path, but I think it's more complicated than that now. Tony Blair came to power in the UK with the promise of a Third Way, and trying not to be unfair, utterly failed. His vision collapsed and he was unable to change a neo-liberal society and economy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Indeed, a middle path, but I think it's more complicated than that now. Tony Blair came to power in the UK with the promise of a Third Way, and trying not to be unfair, utterly failed. His vision collapsed and he was unable to change a neo-liberal society and economy.
Anybody who is willing to trade truth for dopamine, deserves neither truth nor dopamine.
November 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Anybody who is willing to trade truth for dopamine, deserves neither truth nor dopamine.
Maybe he was a mermaigynist?
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Maybe he was a mermaigynist?
Whether the UN can operate a consensus approach to implementing plans to phase out fossil fuels is a huge question. The name "United Nations" doesn't exactly imply it. But it's obvious that countries prefer it compared to a "coalition of the willing". That's what we'll need though if the UN fails.
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Whether the UN can operate a consensus approach to implementing plans to phase out fossil fuels is a huge question. The name "United Nations" doesn't exactly imply it. But it's obvious that countries prefer it compared to a "coalition of the willing". That's what we'll need though if the UN fails.
I was also thinking of the tobacco analogy - there's nothing wrong with cigarettes, it's just smoking them that's bad. But I think your take is visually more engaging. We had a home secretary in the UK who said about cars, he saw no reason why people couldn't own more cars but travel less.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 AM
I was also thinking of the tobacco analogy - there's nothing wrong with cigarettes, it's just smoking them that's bad. But I think your take is visually more engaging. We had a home secretary in the UK who said about cars, he saw no reason why people couldn't own more cars but travel less.