The Sixth Extinction (Environmental News)

[Snake Plissken]

I posted it elsewhere, but it's basically purest parlour games. Ford of the UK have already put out a strong statement saying, basically, "What the fuck?" When the big global megacorps are telling you to stop pissing about then they'll cave pretty quickly.

[Etienne]

The big megacorps told them to stop pissing about over the single market. When your governing coalition is basically grey haired Poujadism then business can carry on getting fucked.

[Eggchaser]

At this stage, the collection of barrel dregs that constitutes what can laughably be referred to as the Government (not much actual governing going on) are engaged in one or more of the following at any given time:-
Red meat via culture wars and random policy announcements with zero thought to the consequences or optics outside the hardcore monkey wearing a blue rosette voters
Tufton Street cut 'n' paste
Chasing the fringe to try to see off the Reform idiots in Tice's latest grift, whilst mutating into them on the pissing out the tent principle (UKIP do over)
Burn it down to cripple Labour when they get in after the election and who cares about the country
Secure a job post election

If they can funnel off money to the chums, donors and mates whilst doing it, so much the better. They are engaged in the sort of behaviour dictators get up to in the end game as the tanks are rolling up to the capital city- siphon off as much loot as possible before fleeing the scene.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Sunak is making a speech at 4.30pm to clarify his policy, and I suspect he doesn't yet know what he's going to say. Sending Suella Braverman onto the morning media round to defend what might be his position isn't a great sign of a strong leader. He could of course have set out his policy in Parliament yesterday rather than wait until it has gone into recess but then there might have been some debate, and this way he gets as much time as he wants live on all of the news media, with the strongest challenge likely to be from Chris Mason wearing the facial expression of a man in a pub who is taken aback by the news that his first choice of flavour of crisps isn't available.

[Snake Plissken]

The big megacorps told them to stop pissing about over the single market. When your governing coalition is basically grey haired Poujadism then business can carry on getting fucked.

Yes, but in the last couple of weeks Sunak has been praising Ford and BMW for investing £1bn between them in building electric cars in the UK. You can imagine them reading his words yesterday and getting very pissed off.

[diggedy derek]

This Sunak speech is confusing as hell. It's framed as having the courage to make the big decisions to... reduce targets. I keep rewinding it trying to figure out what he's on about.

[diggedy derek]

And suggesting the decision to set targets was motivated... short term, yes that's right, short term thinking.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Quick summary:

1) if anything we are just doing too well in achieving net zero
2) you wouldn't know our performance against climate change targets, it goes to a different school
3) scrapping things that don't exist, like meat tax and taking five minutes to sort your rubbish out once a fortnight
4) proper bin men

[diggedy derek]

A year or so ago he was talking about how his daughters were helping him with the recycling, but today the number of different recycling bins (real or imaginary) has finally broken him.

[Eggchaser]

Quick summary:

1) if anything we are just doing too well in achieving net zero
2) you wouldn't know our performance against climate change targets, it goes to a different school
3) scrapping things that don't exist, like meat tax and taking five minutes to sort your rubbish out once a fortnight
4) proper bin men

Will these binmen remove my leftover curry dishes?

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

The way things are going before long it'll be compulsory to burn them on an open fire.

[Sean of the Shed]

Nobody ever expected us to reach the targets Johnson pulled out of his arse did they?
He made the 2030/2035 petrol and hybrid pledge with no plan to back it up with infrastructure or subsidies, no costing and safely in the knowledge that it wouldn't be him having to implement them.

[Sean of the Shed]

In fact I am fairly sure the only thing that had been planned was that it would all fall apart in the next parliament and not this one, so everyone could blame whoever took over.
The fact that Sunak has been cajoled into capitulating during this one by the far right has blown that out of the water and has dumped the failure squarely into his lap. It's amazing what kind of humiliation he is prepared to suffer to keep them onside, he may as well just put on a jester outfit and dance for them.

[Balderdasha]

Seeing it all laid out in a timeline like this is fairly alarming:

https://dumptheguardian.com/environm...isual-timeline

[S. aureus]

That link doesn't work for me ( " Sorry, couldn't create archived copy of the article " )

[ursus arctos]

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...isual-timeline

[Nefertiti2]

Hope every one in New York and New Jersey is staying safe

https://londonist.substack.com/p/past-futures-how-victorian-londoners

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1722406894902366260?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/ursus_arctos59/status/1728498672009138499?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Nocturnal Submission]

Here's an interesting one - the issue of recycling wind turbine blades: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68225891

[Eggchaser]

This is going to be solved, there is money to be made from it.