I reckon my life can be divided into two halves. There was no clear transition, but somehow in the second I have found myself shouting 'ALL DAY' to teammates batting in the middle and meant it totally unironically.
1.5 degrees is going to happen. With effort and good policy we can keep it under 2.5 and bring it back relatively quickly.
"Quickly" here still means a long time on a human scale.
Under no circumstances are we going to keep Global Warming to 1.5 degrees. It's far far too late. The best we can do it hope to come in at and around 2 whilst praying that is sufficient to forestall the destruction of civilization.
@flglmn "Since before your sun burned hot in space and before your race was born, I have awaited a question."
"Are you flashmob or being?"
"I am both, and neither."
@RicFinlay Well some people probably would be reluctant to grant it retrospective first class status fearing its a gateway to to test recognition. Given most of the senior people involved in WSC are now either dead or over 80 surely the slippery slope argument is a thin one now.
@RicFinlay I'm sure this has come up before but I'll raise it anyway. I know there have been rumblings about trying to get the WSC cricket supertests recognised as tests, and it's been continually rejected (and I think on balance fair enough).
I suppose what I'm ultimately saying here is we should be able to acknowledged the alleged behaviour as wrong whilst decrying the charge as a fit up, and explaining why.
I’m not entirely comfortable with the consensus seemingly emerging that what Kerr allegedly said was not racist (I mean putting aside the views of the right wing grievance brigade that should always be disregarded). To me it doesn’t actually seem that there is a contradiction..
I mean do people really want to accept the ultimate logic of saying it’s not racist? (I.e that’s its okay to call someone a white so & so unironically under any circumstances? Or that it's all right for an indigenous West Indian to call one of African descent a black so and so?)