@juergen_hubert you are absolutely right in that moving to a carbon free lifestyle (which I more or less have) does very little to shift the dial. It is still worth doing of course, but we should be putting a lot more pressure on the five or six largest polluters on the planet.
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Again and again, I see the notion that humanity is committing "collective suicide" because we are not acting on #ClimateChange and other forms environmental destruction. -
#introduction@Colgrace apparently Glasgow was where the world’s first Institute of Chartered Accountants was founded.
Apparently to this day, chartered accountants in Scotland don’t have to put the country after their qualification because we were the first. -
*pops up for air briefly between amazing beaches and forests and research discussions and constant yelling about satellites and hanging out with friends*@sundogplanets people live in cities because you’ve got everything on your doorstep. You don’t need a car. Anywhere that is too far to walk you can get a bus.
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It takes a cartoonist to tell us the truthIt takes a cartoonist to tell us the truth
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Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem.Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem. US politicians put party first and country a very poor second. So they are quite prepared to stand by and watch the moral economic and social destruction of their country simply in the hope they will win the next election.
The USA is the manifestation of all that is wrong with first past the post politics. It produces acute polarisation and binary choices which do not reflect public opinion.
It produces no more than vacuous confrontation