In what way will "legally-binding targets" to "restore nature" help to reopen the countless businesses that have folded? How will planting trees cut the millions on the waiting list? How will making life nice for fucking pigeons help recover the lost year of education?
Species are not in decline. There is no need for planting trees. The country is plenty green enough. And "legally-binding" targets merely prevent any possibility of building back anything that can help the economy.
This endless tree-hugging while millions and millions of people face an uncertain future is a symptom of totally degenerate politicians, political parties and Parliament.
They have totally lost the plot.
Baker made a show of pretending not to drink the Kool Aid.
But he drank it, all the same.
This is even shitter than anything Blair ever cooked up.
You'd have to be a fucking idiot to think that this is worth sharing.
Which is to say you would have to be an MP.
Trebling Tree Planting by 2024?!!
Wow!
Who care about unemployment when there are trees?!!
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"There is nothing unconservative about environmentalism – quite the opposite. Done properly, it can unite different strands of Tory thought, and tackling climate change is far too important to be ceded to the Left." -- @Madz_Grant
It should be obvious that if you need environmentalism to "unite different strands of Tory thought", then Tory thinking is disuniting and disunited. Environmentalism is not medicine for political ills. It is poison.
Yet it is what all dysfunctional political and public institutions have used to rescue themselves from their terminal mediocrity and irrelevance, and crises of legitimacy. The EU. The Royal Family. The Pope. I could go on... The green alignment belies deep foundational problems.
The thing with this poll result is that it will be interpreted by the green blob -- party activists, wonks in think tanks and fake academics -- as a reason to double-down on "communicating", rather than reflecting on their own priorities.
This is evidenced, of course, by the fact that these results were well-understood before the poll. For Eg., this @GreenAllianceUK report found that "for the overwhelming majority of people, climate change is a non-issue".
IOW, it is a *feature* not a *bug* of green thinking.
The constraints on individuals' lives and on the economy are more important to the @IEA than the things they will deprive us of.
This is environmentalism. It is political. Politics is about priorities.
And that is why you will find no criticism of organisations -- ideological organisations such as the @IEA -- on the BBC. Here, for example, is @MattMcGrathBBC failing to cast any journalistic scrutiny over the IEA's agenda.
Fearmongering is about obedience. That's why "vaccine hesitancy" is now a thing in headlines. It is not about health.
Anyone with any brains who has studied vaccine debates over the last 20 or so years knows that any element of coercion generates vaccine scepticism.
Much of that scepticism was generated by institutions of medicine themselves. Many were as sceptical of big pharma as anyone else. And they fuelled conspiracy theories by trying to cover their own arses, rather than admitting error of judgement.
Medicine depends on trust. Trust between the patient & institution/doctor. *Any* institutional or professional arse-covering or politicking, or manifest agenda-driving instantly evaporates trust, and with it the authority of the institution.
"His comments come six months ahead of the COP26 meeting in Glasgow, where he'll be addressing global leaders and key decision-makers, after being appointed People's Advocate for climate change."
"We help organisations understand and influence public opinion through research and targeted communications campaigns. And we help businesses craft policy ideas that Governments can realistically apply to difficult issues."
Instead of each party asking the public to lend their support for each of the parties' policies, the legacy parties have adopted a model in which they all agree on the policies, and then hire stupid PR firms to generate support for them, no matter what level of support exists.