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The living world is being torn apart, due to a comprehensive failure by almost all governments to defend it from commerce and greed. We need a new ethics, that treats an assault on our life support systems as an assault on us all. ipbes.net/news/ipbes-glo…
Much of what we were brought up to believe was right - economic expansion, industrial "progress", the pursuit of private affluence - is exposed as not only wrong but lethal. The moral codes of previous generations can't help us here. We need a new one.
Today we discovered that the entire living planet is in a death spiral: the most important news humanity has ever received. So .... this is the @BBCNews top headline:
Someone at the BBC decided that a baby being born was more important. Imagine how future generations will judge such people.
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I dream of a country in which journalists read the reports they write about.
I dream on.
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It's all of a piece in the billionaire press, and all complete bollocks. Of course. express.co.uk/news/uk/113589…
This too. When the billionaire press says "middle class", it means the ultra-rich. When it says "homes and gardens" it means huge property portfolios hed by speculative investors.
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Today we launch a report that should - and could - change the face of Britain. It's our report to the Labour Party on the most neleglcted issue in politics - Land. Here's my column explaining it. #landforthemany theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
You can read the report here. It took us the best part of a year to write. It's a radical but practical guide to changing everything - from the price of housing to the defence of the living world. landforthemany.uk
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As if to confirm that the new #MarineConservationZones are indeed paper parks, the minister responsible, @theresecoffey, was able this morning to name only one activity the Berwick to St. Mary’s MCZ will restrict. Commercial fishing? Mining? Dredging? No, kayaking! A total farce.
It's like designating a rainforest as a conservation zone, while allowing loggers to continue felling all the trees. Instead of assisting this exercise in greenwashing, the @WildlifeTrusts should be demanding *much* more from the government.
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