Which let’s them run the line at the next election about being tough on crime and only they are up to the task. Win win /s

Well yes, that’s literally the way Conservative governments operate, you’re catagorised as one of them if you’re in the club as a hard working ,upstanding citizen and you’re a grifter if not. They have no time for people they see as “grifters”, which is most people.

The politics of envy sees many who suffer under conservatives vote for them in the hope they too can have somone to look down upon when they are "successful "…any day now.

Pauline Hanson voters ?

The greatest voice in rock 'n roll of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrWbSDsFTYo

Seems like this is a lot of work to avoid using a poop knife?

Finally, a good news article!

Probably did, this is the US, money is the solution.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

Good, made a decision decades ago to have a vasectomy as there are way to many people in the world and misquoting Thoreau, what use a kid if no livable planet to raise them on ?

I always felt if the need to be a parent overwhelmed, I could adopt any number of abandoned kids.

I like kids but I’d fell way to guilty about having any. Not having them also let me retire at 35 and pursue my own interests, I’m now 58.

I’d suggest not, cats destroy and entire ecosystems, I’d suggest cat owners are self absorbed, entitled, narcicistic… or some combination.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world/

Hell, there toxoplasmotic shit kills dolphins as it washes into the ocean.

Fuck my bf in the ass…

I’m at 0, no ones done anything agresious enough to warrant it yet. I dont think they ever could, annoying is another thing entirely though, I’d block for that.

I disagree with most people most of the time, I’m a stranger in a strange land

Universities seem to have lost their way , trying to be a business instead of being a University

But maybe thats the future?

They used a gay actor I to BDSM for anti covid memes, so I dont that sekc reoefction is their strong suite.

I dont use Reddit becase of it’s shitty commercial explotation. I was never on Twitter.

This is the internet, people who disagree with you are on it.

Maybe. I voted again the Republic (bit for The Voice) not because I’m a monarchist but the proposal for how it was to be setup was bullshit. Now we have to endure that shitball King visiting, so there is that.

This is my partners favourite game.

Fair Email. I grabbed it from F Droid and paid direct though.

I don’t feel George Monbiot put his case well. If we take Australia as the example, without the incremental changes we’ve individually already made its hard to believe that the bigger things we are actually doing now would be as uncontroversial as they are.

I don’t agree, your argument is there “is bigger things we’re doing now”. I don’t agree with that premises at all, we’re not doing bigger things… at all. What were doing is green washing within the orthodox neo liberal order. Which I think is George’s point.

Aa an example , aircraft bookings have increased some 20% from last year, we need aircraft bookings to be zero. We need private cars being banned, we’ll need the removal of national boundaries or suffer the rise in violence and subsequent enviomental damage that’s caused as billions flee the tropical zone. They will flee becase they must.

Another example, The Olympics should be banned and yet we’re inviting 10s of thousands of people to Australia in 2034. What we’re doing it banning straws at the events and putting a recycle logo on a cup instead.

We’re expanding Melbourne, Hobart & Brisbane aiports and have built a new one in Sydney, they should all be closed. A new football stadium in Hobart is a laughable mockery in the face of a climate emergency.

Solutions to Climate Change and the enviomental crisis require a complete change to the social, political and economic way we live upon the Earth, what we’re doing is rearranging the deck chairs.

We need to ban cars and flying but what we’re doing is banning plastic bags and chopping down forests to make paper bags.

All too much to expect ? Well, that’s the point and why we’re not doing anything, beside incremental tokeism and why it will only get worse.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leade

No it isn’t, such foolish, ney stupid thinking.

The entire COP process has been co-opted by fossil fuel interests and is now irrelevant , we’re a massive exporter of fossil fuels and have zero interest in moving foward to zero emissons, voters will never tolerate not being able to fly and told they can’t drive cars, stop owing meat eating pets etc

If we wanted to be “leaders” we’d not be holding the Olympics in Australia, not be spending billions expanding Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart airports, we’d have abandoned all new road projects and only be building PT and AT infrastructure and be closing coal mines and gas extraction and redoing society for low energy dependence, while starting managed abandonment of coastlines and Northern Australia.

Just stick to denial and useless tokenism with a few solar panels and ecars like other developed countries and stop with the hypocrisy.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.

“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”