PhotochromprintsNov 26

Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles Image shows Obsborne House in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom. The house was built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a summer home and rural retreat. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015) England Isle of Wight

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Frankie Boyle:
> We live in a country where posting “Let’s riot or something bruv!” on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals. Of course, it’s never phrased as a plea to kill shepherds in pursuit of our geopolitical interests.
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> #PopeFrancis as.. influential voice. “Dealing with the planetary crisis is a matter of unlearning... #LaudatoSi [..2015 encyclical on ecology] is about the collapse of a.. world-view.” #TheBritish.. are especially ill-suited to “unlearning”. “ #BritishPeople were educated for generations to think that their technological interventions were the best. To recognise that these created climate change requires an unlearning of so much that is foundational to their identity.” https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/amitav-ghosh-climate-change-war
Amitav Ghosh: “Climate change is becoming an all-out war”

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