If you want to see a live example of the Tufton Street climate denialists at work, take a look at the Uxbridge by election in the U.K.
They turned a national government election into a local clean air campaign referendum. They threw everything into making the result look like a public rejection of green policy.
They did such a great job on everybody that even Labour are starting to believe it.
#TuftonStreetMafia
#ClimateDenialistsNetwork
#ClimateEmergency
PC-815. Built as a cheap submarine chaser, it spent 68 hours bravely fighting a known magnetic anomaly, declared war on neutral Mexico, arguably inspired Scientology, and finally ended an all round superb career of uselessness by ramming a friendly destroyer and sinking itself. Sterling stuff.
The thing I think I will never, ever understand about #ClimateChange & the #ClimateCrisis is how the #FossilFuel industry is able to recruit & retain the highly educated #scientists & #Engineers their businesses depend on.
It take more than psycho CEOs, corrupt or incompetent politicians, greed & apathy to destroy a planetary ecosystem
"Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning"
This is increasingly how it feels, when things you "own" digitally become inaccessible, and when shows which are locked in streaming services can get delisted on a whim, disappearing forever.
Thank you @Illuminatus for this quote.
[Edit: In case this wasn't clear, this is about entertainment and digital ownership, not physical goods]
Found something remarkable (and also quite sad).
In 1997, Wired published "The Long Boom", a hyper-optimistic article about how we'd achieve Utopia by 2020.
The authors included notes on some "scenario spoilers"—negative events that might send is in a worse direction.
...and those spoilers turned out to be almost spookily accurate.
USA Politics today:
•Biden gets $42B for broadband—Trump admits to stealing classified docs
•PA Gov Shapiro repairs I-95 in 12 days—FL Gov DeSantis tries to cancel citizenship
•IL Gov Pritzker signs bill to guarantee breaks & a day off—TX Gov Abbot bans water breaks
Dems aren’t perfect, no, but we are working to be more perfect—and that matters.