@JustStop_Oil This wasn't a protest by farmers though so much as it was a protest by landowners and those who support their interests. And they weren't protesting about farming, they were protesting about inheritance tax
@johncusack Musk will probably push Trump down a flight of stairs at the earliest opportunity so as to get his guy Vance elected President.
The broligarchy's plan to dismantle the US can then get underway seriously
@SteB777@threadreaderapp Did you see Carole Cadwalladr's from today's Guardian? I think you two are singing from the same hymn sheet
https://t.co/mUvyBdlNh6
@GeorgeMonbiot I will make an effort to spend more time on Bluesky, though I have concerns that site will head in the direction as Twitter has. This site is broken. I only ever check in here for a few accounts.
I'm looking forward to attending your talk with Frankie on Monday, incidentally
@Jonathan_K_Cook There will soon come a point where governments say they simply cannot afford to rebuild or compensate people for climate induced losses. The public will be left on their own.
We're presently in a period of rapid climate and societal disintegration. Now is a time of monsters
@GeorgeMonbiot I think the Germany, UK and US should also be dragged before the ICC as accomplices. These countries' tired argument that Israel can do no wrong because the Jews were once themselves persecuted holds no weight, legally or ethically
@JessicaLexicus Literally, no one at a high level in government seems to be planning seriously on civilisation collapse occurring in the near term, certainly not that I am aware
@SteB777@ClimateBen We don't have a plan for collapse.
We're in a car being driven by a lunatic towards a solid brick wall, and we're not even trying to wrest control of the wheel away from him and hit the brakes. We're just hoping it will all be okay. It is nonsense, irrational thinking
@SteB777@KevinClimate These venal politicians are looking to line their pockets whilst the getting is good, and hoping their wealth will protect them when everything collapses.
Their rational for doing this and facilitating the collapse of the biosphere is that should they not do it somebody else will
@GeorgeMonbiot Elite interests, be that Big Oil or oligarchs, won regardless of who got elected, as they've been in charge of both main parties since the 70s.
I agree with you entirely that it was striking how little attention the environmental polycrises we face featured in this election
@HootinRootin @GeorgeMonbiot@DaleVince@IntoTheWildPod George and Dale are categorically not singing from the same page, which anyone who has paid the slightest attention to this dispute would know.
Dale has been evasive and disingenuous, and is steadfastly refusing to have a public debate because he knows he'll come off badly