Vegan, walker, hillwalker, retired, amateur photographer, Highlander, Scottish, British and European. Like the idea of Scottish Independence, Green policy, rejoin EU, climate action, degrowth.
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Last Notes npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Cannot post this often enough - it sums up the root cause of the rioting, looting, violence and hatred in the UK just now npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/671/163/658/400/153/original/105c1a467b79c982.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Judge them on their record ….. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Sums up the Tory party manifesto npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Speaking of the moment, Anders said: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing that we discovered was the Earth." npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach There has to be better priorities npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Not good npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Sums up government attitude to climate change npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach 52.9 degrees in Delhi …. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Following my successful election launch, and my reintroduction of national service, I am pleased to announce the reinvigoration of the British car industry with the state of the art Hillman Imp npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach After 14 years I think we need a change npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And just to be clear, that would be good npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/396/347/137/539/349/original/0443041c6074cc70.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The silence from politicians is deafening npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/360/425/498/346/872/original/ea81d640ab9e3e63.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach It’s their own wealth, self interest and privilege npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Just remind yourself every day npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Trump’s foreign policy as outlined in his one to one meeting with Putin npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Carbon tax maybe or just tax npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Tree of the day npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/138/671/406/629/176/original/7071163d8c63cba9.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach It can only mean “I am rich enough not to care about anyone or anything else” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Over 30 years old and things haven’t changed npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Aldous Huxley foresaw the methods of the far right power grabbers whose methods are increasingly adopted by Tories and Republicans npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And millionaires can pay a bit more too npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And more than ever this year npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach This clearly shows just how isolated we are economically npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach UK government policy for the last 14 years npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/18/profits-of-uks-private-train-leasing-firms-treble-in-a-year npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach This becomes more true every day npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Greed is not good - even if promoted as good npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach If the choice is between a senile old man or a senile psychotic old man, it shouldn’t be too hard a decision npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach It’s so hard to know who is telling the truth npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Is anyone else concerned npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach There is going to be an awful lot of English refugees if the polar ice caps melt npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Scottish Water has never been privatised, it invests 33% more in infrastructure than private English water companies it has no debt, leeches no profit and has the lowest sewage dumping in Britain. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach It’s not an emergency if you’ve been doing it for four years - that’s government incompetence npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Imagine a future where disposability was designed out npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The machine grinds on regardless - Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand has a life of it’s own and is out of control npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Man who is suspicious of the global scientific consensus has done his own investigation and concluded “If the world is really warming, why did I have to scrape my car windscreen this morning” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The climate deniers guide to landscape aesthetics npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach She has just turned 21 - that’s some impact she has made already npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “We must change almost everything in our current societies. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Climate deniers are blind to the obvious - maybe it’s just fear npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Tory Christmas story npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/111/608/106/329/963/141/original/998cfc420d393276.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Unacceptable change is always done by making lots of minor changes each of which on its own does not get enough people protesting npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach COPOUT28 npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach In a nutshell npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Sums it up nicely npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach I think I’ll hurkle-durkle tomorrow npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “Humankind has not created this crisis- it was created by those in power, and they knew exactly what priceless values they were sacrificing in order to make unimaginable amounts of money and to maintain a system that benefitted them” - Greta Thunberg npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Today’s news - 97% of uk immigration is legal - so the entire Tory focus is on 3% and they won’t deal with the backlog so they can keep pretending it is a major problem and divert attention from their failures in all other areas of government npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach This week and next is Black Friday - two weeks (pretending to be a day) of commercial hard sell to try to get you to buy things you don’t need at a 25% discount on last month’s 50% price increase npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Impact on London by 2100 of predicted sea level rise npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “We cannot compromise with the earth; we cannot compromise with the catastrophe of unchecked climate change, so we must compromise with one another.” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Not doing very well, are we? npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Moving from petrol cars to electric cars is not the answer npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach So that makes all supporters of Scottish and Welsh independence extremists, as well as supporters of a United Ireland npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/111/311/986/709/045/752/original/fc9861c45729065a.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And they live up to it every day npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Brechin flood defences overwhelmed last night, seven years after opening - 1 in 200 doesn’t look promising npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach More than 102 million people in America are in the 10 percent worldwide, Credit Suisse reports, far more than from any other country. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach It looks like if you own a house you are in the top 10% of the wealthiest people on Earth. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach A closer look at income groups reveals even more dramatic disparities towards the top of the curve. The richest 0.1% of the world’s population emitted 10 times more than all the rest of the richest 10% combined, exceeding a total footprint of 200 tonnes of CO2 per capita annually. Within this 0.1% are the billionaires and multimillionaires whose emissions-intensive super-yachts, private jets, and mansions - have attracted the attention of climate activists. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The key message from the Tory Party Conference- they take us all for fools npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The Office for National Statistics said the UK had become the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per capita in the G7 group of wealthy nations – outstripping the US and Japan – as a result of buying goods manufactured abroad. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Thought for the day: npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach But I think this is a conspiracy npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach I think this should become a world wide symbol of resistance against those who will not act npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach At least one leader is acknowledging the problem npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/111/120/949/078/295/275/original/66f724fe3cd14e91.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Brexit - in a nutshell npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Last forty years since Thatcher npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach What are you going to do? npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Thought for today npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/110/973/550/564/806/536/original/dd4f057046c7e910.png npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Climate deniers npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach As we are finding out with the climate crisis npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “I think in many ways that we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange. They keep saying that climate change is an existential threat and the most important issue of all. And yet they just carry on like before. If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me that is black or white. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival. Either we go on as a civilization or we don’t.” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Rishi Sunak’s Tory economic philosophy npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach GB News presenters laugh at climate deaths npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The economics of growth npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Deniers npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Another from Private Eye - the advance of human civilisation npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Number crunching from Private Eye npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Who wants action on climate change? Versus npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Someone has a sense of humour npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The mantra of perpetual growth is a fallacy npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach When the risk is known to be existential, you would think the precautionary principle would apply npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Look Rishi - a carbon capture and storage system that works npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And this is only sitting still with no work or activity npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The New European- sums her up npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach And 21st century npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach The problem with capitalism is that it is based on exploitation and creates a self serving class held together by greed. Wealth buys politicians who govern for the wealthy. Autocracies don’t pretend it’s otherwise, and democracies create a veneer of concern for the general public. The Tories have stopped the pretence of a veneer. npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “There are now more than 2,000 billionaires living in 20 countries from the United States, China and Russia to Turkey, Thailand and Indonesia. An annual wealth tax levied at just 1.5 percent of their net worth would raise $74 billion each year: that alone would be enough to fill the funding gap to get every child into school and deliver essential health services in all low-income countries.” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach Extreme heat in Siberia makes world climatic history as the cataclysmic thawing of Earth's permafrost quickens with scientists' screams for economic system changes still ignored by mass media. Ben See npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach But unless we change definition of cool and change our approach to living, we might be the last to do this npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach “My message is that if we do not care about the climate crisis and if we do not act now then almost no other question is going to matter in the future.” npub1watnvat4u5pcfhskle45h2tfdsmzcsctk6dpstxc33fxa6q8a6ds8h7v6p CheRosach "A civilization that really gave a damn about climate chaos wouldn’t be chomping at the bit to replace...the world’s 1.5 billion vehicles with battery operated ones. It would advocate for fewer cars altogether"
