@00b07ccb The tree equivalent of the cognitive biases that blind us to mass suffering while an individual dead celebrity who we think we knew is somehow a huge tragedy. 

 @e73e808d Any particular reason for picking on Cornflakes in particular? Granted nowadays I have a pear and a bread roll.

And while my journey to veganism is currently making rather slow progress, I doubt that even the permaculture version of eggs is sustainable in the long run, when you consider the sheer amount of land involved. Though obviously beef is much worse.

See e.g. what Monbiot has said about agriculture. 

 @43d7c4ea In her own words:

"As home secretary, Theresa May called for Britain to leave the ECHR. And it was Conservative party policy under Michael Howard to leave the refugee convention"

You know what unites those two tory leaders?

They were lunatic right wingers, just like Suella Braverman. Both policies are unacceptable, cruel, and legally problematic.

And they both lost elections. Just like Rishi Sunak is hopefully about to. Theresa May managed to blow a 20 point lead in the course of an election campaign, and the DUP won't save the tories this time. And Michael Howard's defeat was worse than Jeremy Corbyn's, at 198 seats.

Let's just hope that Braverman loses her seat. By the standards of recent by-elections it's not out of the question (26K majority), though it'll probably be closer at a general election.

Otherwise she'll probably be leading the tories in 2030. And even if they lose, that has consequences. 

 @43d7c4ea They are expanding renewables and nuclear pretty fast too. The fact that Chinese per-capita carbon emissions are more than those of many Western European countries is indeed terrifying though. And for all their problems (including an interpretation of communism that is significantly less socialist than the US), they have lifted a huge number of people out of poverty over the last 40 years. Some amount of economic growth in China was and is necessary, whatever your view on the west.

I hope China does better. India too - and even their targets are depressing, in spite of being rather vulnerable. But once again, we can't use what other people aren't doing as an excuse not to act. Especially when we bear significant historical responsibility. 

 @6b43cb18 @10333404 Yeah. Stop using fossil fuels if you can. But only system change will stop *use* of fossil fuels. Because many people don't have a choice, and others don't care. Changing that requires government action. Unfortunately, government action is often in the wrong direction. So we need to change the government, both by electoral politics and more radical tactics (protest, NVDA, awareness in general, etc).