Both of the actions you see in these photos potentially amount to the offence of ‘public nuisance’. One is punishable with “long, long prison sentences” & the other is rewarded with huge bonuses & billions in profits. Why the disparity? What does this mean for the rule of law?

Helen Lewis “Women have very little idea of how much men hate them”. Germaine Greer. Observing the facts in a case like this, it’s pretty difficult not to agree. The courage and dignity of this woman is beyond words.

"Can those barriers be knocked down or stepped over?" This is the crucial question when it comes to reorganizing our societies to minimize overshoot & cope with what's already inevitable. There are many barriers that modernity presents, myths we've allowed to govern our lives.

Planned degrowth is unlikely, but even if it did happen, I think most Western nations & societies would say to climate migrants & refugees, “We’ve done our bit” & turn them back (or worse). Have degrowth scholars considered the real needs of the world’s most vulnerable people?

Sounds more promising than "no"

Joined up thinking isn't UK govt's strong point

If you see a friend come back from an international trip or large event, Covid-free, it reinforces the sense of ‘maybe Covid is a spent force’. The importance of infection and disease patterns. Covid is not everywhere, all the time. That’s why it infects in waves. /1

This. Climate activists are a threat to the neoliberal establishment, that's why they're still being sentenced to jail despite the overcrowded prisons.

I don't want to wait for the government to tell me how to degrowth. I want to degrowth right now. Not wait till there's no hope left for our planet. How can I do this? Individuals can't make a difference, it's industry that needs to stop and change, and govt has to legislate.

Earthling Energy Imbalance Perhaps, but this is not spontaneous: it is due to massive gaslighting and disinformation, including the discourses of delay, pushed by the fossil fuel industry and their allies in media. See The New York Times inviting the head of the Heritage foundation as a "climate forward" speaker.

How to preserve things in oil and not worry about botulism ...

Someone said that our students will get "hypoxic" wearing masks. We train hard, but our classes don't demand the oxygen that the Canadian Women's National Hockey Team needed when they won a game at the Olympics in masks. Thank you for your concern, but we'll be fine.

God, I'm tired of poking through fancy schmancy snazzy PDF environmental impact reports

Someone in a massive SUV today nearly cleaned up my car (and me and my child) this afternoon, because they weren't fully on their side of the road on a series of narrow bends. Whether it's lack of vision or difficulty telling how much room they have, but it is so common!