Just Stop Oil

[chilango]

I've just started reading that KSR book (Ministry for the Future) and have another Malm lined up after that.

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

 

[LDC]

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

Yeah, same here tbh.

 

[Orang Utan]

I've just started reading that KSR book (Ministry for the Future) and have another Malm lined up after that.

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

That KSR book has had me thinking on similar lines (probably!)

 

[chilango]

KSR on the bodies who will tip us over the 2c edge with their carbon extraction -

"Executive decisions for these organizations’ actions will be made by about five hundred people."

That is a viably small number of people "to encourage ".

 

[danny la rouge]

I've just started reading that KSR book (Ministry for the Future) and have another Malm lined up after that.

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

I’ve got it next in my pile as it happens.

 

[LDC]

Prepare yourself for the first chapter danny la rouge.

 

[chilango]

I'm not that many chapters in, but (even as a fan of KSR) it's one of his most readable. Highly recommended to all.

 

[chilango]

One word of advice. Don't read it sat on a long-haul flight. I felt/feel like such a hypothetical wanker.

 

[mojo pixy]

Hypothetical wanker would be a great tagline

 

[brogdale]

Didn't they once open for the Ruddy Yurts?

 

[Pickman's model]

Didn't they once open for the Ruddy Yurts?

Old Bull Art Centre, Barnet 24.3.90

 

[belboid]

Hypothetical wanker would be a great tagline

Nearly caused a split in Left Unity back in 2014.

 

[lazythursday]

I've just started reading that KSR book (Ministry for the Future) and have another Malm lined up after that.

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

Yes. It is increasingly impossible to come to a different conclusion. And therefore there must be those who are braver than I taking steps in that direction.

 

[ChrisD]

write to my MP - which is something that even as an anarchist who has no faith in representative democracy or indirect action I have done - then what I'll get is a reply

I actually wrote to Sunak a couple of weeks ago. It was the last letter I wrote on my architect's headed notepaper and using up a stray old stamp ( today is last day to use them).pp I told him that I was retiring after working commercially for 40 years and I agreed with both JSO and insulate Britain.
I am waiting for the courtesy of a reply
Perhaps it was a was a waste of my last non barcoded stamp......

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm not sure I see the point of writing to MPs unless it's cyber bullying. I have written to mine once or twice and he just says the things I expected him to say in response.

 

[teqniq]

Will Sunak pay any attention to António Guterres? Probably not. The UN is considered, not without due cause, by many to be toothless and in any case he's got himself and all his mates to further enrich.

Sunak’s new oil and gas licences are ‘moral and economic madness’

PM becomes ‘dangerous radical’, in words of UN chief, by backing fossil fuels incompatible with net zero goals

www.theguardian.com

e2a and this may go some way to explaining why:

 

[Larry O'Hara]

KSR on the bodies who will tip us over the 2c edge with their carbon extraction -

"Executive decisions for these organizations’ actions will be made by about five hundred people."

That is a viably small number of people "to encourage ".

I will have a look at the book, but couldnt help noticing endorsed by both Obama and Gates: but surely they are part of the problem? Will check it out though: I’m guessing a companion volume to ‘Without A Trace’ and similar…

 

[Pickman's model]

It reminds me of my friend's dad who stopped smoking when he got a lung cancer diagnosis. Bit late then mate.

We've got the diagnosis and just bought a new carton of 200 on the duty free.

it's worse than that, we're stood outside the terminal in the grubby designated smoking area, a lit fag in each hand and puffing away from each alternately, while chewing a plug of tobacco at the same time

 

[chilango]

I will have a look at the book, but couldnt help noticing endorsed by both Obama and Gates: but surely they are part of the problem? Will check it out though: I’m guessing a companion volume to ‘Without A Trace’ and similar…

Less of a "how to" and more of a "why to".

 

[chilango]

it's worse than that, we're stood outside the terminal in the grubby designated smoking area, a lit fag in each hand and puffing away from each alternately, while chewing a plug of tobacco at the same time

Busy shouting at passers by that nicotine patches are a WEF conspiracy funded by hard-working taxpayers.

 

[Flavour]

that's one of those things climate criminals do: endorse stuff which they know denounce them implicitly, to make themselves look better

 

[LDC]

It's also just a cli-fi novel, I don't think endorsements stuck on the back to increase sales are some deep political statement of support for everything done in the book.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I read a review of it by Francis Fukuyama of all people saying that he thought it was a good story but hopelessly optimistic.

 

[DotCommunist]

started the KSR one last night, good stuff, took me a good 4-5 chapters before KSR's authorial voice annoyed me. I do like KSR but he's very clean, concise and...fresh. You imagine he has clean socks at all times. Eats 3 squares a day at the right times. I like language a bit more baroque and twisty. Anyway style gripes aside its good.

 

[LDC]

It was the first novel I'd read for years, and thoroughly 'enjoyed' it.

 

[Pickman's model]

It was the first novel I'd read for years, and thoroughly 'enjoyed' it.

if you liked that you'll love 'the death of grass'

 

[chilango]

if you liked that you'll love 'the death of grass'

I've just bought that!

 

[Artaxerxes]

I've just started reading that KSR book (Ministry for the Future) and have another Malm lined up after that.

I suspect it's illegal to express the what I think I am learning from all of this.

It’s long past breaking kneecaps time I think

 

[platinumsage]

Europe is on fire, we just had the hottest July in known history, and what are you doing? Wanking on smugly about how the Tories are ignoring Just Stop Oil (as though any other tactic is working better, and as though in the last year of whining about their shortcomings you've said or done anything of any more value), telling us to buck up.

Fuck off.

Good to see the new head of the IPCC agrees with me:

"If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change"

Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023

Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC, said it's not helpful to imply that a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity. He calls for a balanced approach to the climate change debate.

www.dw.com

 

[edcraw]

Good to see the new head of the IPCC agrees with me:

"If you constantly communicate the message that we are all doomed to extinction, then that paralyzes people and prevents them from taking the necessary steps to get a grip on climate change"

Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023

Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC, said it's not helpful to imply that a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity. He calls for a balanced approach to the climate change debate.

www.dw.com

The excuses for not doing anything & it being someone else’s fault really are endless aren’t they?!