This will get a lot of negative reaction (and rightly so, I think it's an awful mindset and that this kind of producerism is a malignant influence on politics), but in identifying the tradeoff it's actually more intellectually honest than a lot of commentary on this issue
A diferença da qualidade do ar em Paris ao longo de 17 anos (2007 x 2024)
A cidade eliminou estacionamentos, dificultaram o uso de carros sem necessidade e encheram a cidade de ciclovias.
@edwest I actually think that sounds more pleasant than flying 16 hours Aus to Middle East, siting in some dystopian airport for 3 hours, then managing another 7 hour flight to the UK
Why don’t all people who get up at 4:30am and got to bed at 8:30pm simply sleep from 11-7 instead like a normal person? The hours are literally the same!
My current lifemaxxing stack:
- 4:30am wake up
- Read classic books
- 3 hours creative work before 8am
- Lift/run 6x/week
- Eat single ingredient foods
- Present time with fam/friends
- 20-min evening sauna
- Wild Roman skincare routine
- 8:30pm bedtime
Wouldn't change a thing.
@v_j_freeman@BristOliver BlueSky seems to be exclusively the workforce of the Guardian, the left half of the FT and the remnants of FBPE twitter. An odd bunch.
This is an interesting case in point. This station - which doesn’t include any new track - cost a quarter of a billion. Part of the reason why costs balloon are all these extra demands placed on construction projects.
As part of the #CambridgeSouth station project we have set a target of 10 per cent net gain in biodiversity for the #CambridgeSouthstation project by including a range of mitigations to offset the loss of habitats from the station construction area.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
I imagine like 90% of voters would support policies like capping grocery prices, freezing rent, wealth taxes yada yada because from a glance, they sound great! It’s only really wonks, politicos, or a tiny section of hyper-engaged voters, who examine policies in finer detail and assess second order consequences etc. It’s why politicians are consistently more economically liberal than their own voter bases.
If you poll voters via single issues, the overwhelmingly majority would come across as essentially, ‘populist-Left authoritarians.’ It’s not particularly a Gen-Z thing.
However, the reason why 90% of voters don’t rally round that one agenda is most voters vote on vibes, feelings, cultural/tribal attachment - a vibe of ‘who reflects me’. They don’t vote for a list of policies.
@K_Niemietz Kenyon went on quite a tirade against building on the green belt during the show, including claiming the issue brought him into politics. It feels like the last throw of the dice for a doomed candidate - many such cases!
The key finding of the report is that energy transition alone will not suffice.
We need to combine it with "sufficiency" to stay within 2 degrees. This includes labour hour reductions, growth caps in rich countries, less material consumption, and changes in food habits.