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Ecocide as an international crime

jeudi 29 septembre 2022 à 12:17

A campaign to define "ecocide" as an international crime, comparable to genocide.

I don't think that prosecuting ecocide is a panacea. It is easy to understand intentional deforestation as ecocide. Each piece of the forest is cut down or burnt by certain people.

However, when a lightning-sparked wildfire destroys a forest, it is harder to pin the destruction on anyone. Everyone's CO2 emissions contribute a little to each wildfire.

Nonetheless, prosecuting people like Bolosonaro could help, and they certainly deserve it.

Britain crying out for radical solutions

jeudi 29 septembre 2022 à 12:17

*Britain is crying out for radical solutions, but Labour still thinks it’s in the 1990s.* Warning that if Labour doesn't support what non-wealthy Britons demand, if they have no hope of supporting Corbyn, they will turn to radicals that are authoritarian.

I stand by my cartoon contrasting B'liar's "New Labour" with the Labour government that established the great social democratic policies that lifted most Britons out of poverty after World War II. Just imagine that Tony B'liar is replaced by keir Starmer.

If you won't recognize that "The Tories are lower than vermin," you will never offer anything more than a lesser evil.

Campaign to end prison slavery

jeudi 29 septembre 2022 à 12:17

On the campaign to end prison slavery — forcing prisoners to work for private employers for a pittance.

Crabs staying where oceans stay warm longer

jeudi 29 septembre 2022 à 12:17

Crabs, enjoying the warming ocean around Normandy and Brittany and the delicious mussel farms there, are staying most of the year and devouring the mussels.

Since their numbers are growing, we should encourage people to eat them and keep the numbers stable.

Starmer's policy speech more progressive than expected

jeudi 29 septembre 2022 à 12:17

A panel of judges rated Starmer's policy speech as more progressive than they expected from him.