X : Brexit has messed up supply chains.
Me : Weakness within and poor understanding of supply chains existed long before brexit. If anything brexit has done us a favour.
X : How?
Me : By exposing this. You think we could cope with climate change if we had just continued?
Me : Weakness within and poor understanding of supply chains existed long before brexit. If anything brexit has done us a favour.
X : How?
Me : By exposing this. You think we could cope with climate change if we had just continued?
X : Say that to ...
Me : ... people finding it difficult to get basic resources or suffering at this time? I think we're mostly delusional on the impact of climate change. This is an opportunity to reflect, try not to waste it in the way we did the referendum result.
Me : ... people finding it difficult to get basic resources or suffering at this time? I think we're mostly delusional on the impact of climate change. This is an opportunity to reflect, try not to waste it in the way we did the referendum result.
X : How did we waste the referendum?
Me : It was a pressure release valve but rather than look into causes (which we had been blindly ignoring for so long), too many decided just to blame people with narratives that made them feel comfortable. Today is just the same.
Me : It was a pressure release valve but rather than look into causes (which we had been blindly ignoring for so long), too many decided just to blame people with narratives that made them feel comfortable. Today is just the same.
X : I don't get it.
Me : We live in a grossly unfair society, with a massively disconnected and incompetent leadership, genuine suffering and growing anger. This has been building for 30 plus years. Brexit is a symptom. We are still not treating the causes.
Me : We live in a grossly unfair society, with a massively disconnected and incompetent leadership, genuine suffering and growing anger. This has been building for 30 plus years. Brexit is a symptom. We are still not treating the causes.
X : And supply chains?
Me : Another symptom, lack of thinking or wilful ignorance in pursuit of market dogma and greed. An illusion of prosperity built on exclusion. CEO pay has soared 1,322% since 1978, HGV divers? Well, we knew of the shortage in 2016 - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Me : Another symptom, lack of thinking or wilful ignorance in pursuit of market dogma and greed. An illusion of prosperity built on exclusion. CEO pay has soared 1,322% since 1978, HGV divers? Well, we knew of the shortage in 2016 - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
X : I don't get your point.
Me : Stop looking for simple and comfortable answers ... "it's brexit" etc. The malaise is much deeper than this - the way we exclude, our failure to value people, to plan, to consider the context, our lack of situational awareness ... a long list.
Me : Stop looking for simple and comfortable answers ... "it's brexit" etc. The malaise is much deeper than this - the way we exclude, our failure to value people, to plan, to consider the context, our lack of situational awareness ... a long list.
X : But if we hadn't ...
Me : ... voted for brexit? Well, the underlying problems would have remained, we would have ignored them, they would have grown and they would eventually have hit us but with more force in the midst of a climate catastrophe. We need to look at causes.
Me : ... voted for brexit? Well, the underlying problems would have remained, we would have ignored them, they would have grown and they would eventually have hit us but with more force in the midst of a climate catastrophe. We need to look at causes.
X : What are the causes?
Me : The market is a useful tool but it has a context because it is based upon a singular principle - exclusion. It's where we get property, trade, inequality and "power over" others from. The environment is everywhere, you cannot exclude it ...
Me : The market is a useful tool but it has a context because it is based upon a singular principle - exclusion. It's where we get property, trade, inequality and "power over" others from. The environment is everywhere, you cannot exclude it ...
... to mitigate environmental impacts we're going to have to use "power with" others, inclusion and sharing. The environment does not fit the market. The symptoms you are seeing today are all because of excessive market dogma, exclusion, inequality, lack of oversight ...
... a lack of awareness, a lack of understanding that there is no one size fits all and the market has a context. It is not the answer to everything. It is not a replacement for society. It's why you see progress being made in China because this is understood.
So, in the UK, we knew in 2016 that there was going to be a 100,00 shortfall in HGV drivers - committees.parliament.uk/committee/153/… ... it is not something that should be left to "the market".
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