Having children? In this economy?!
Having children? In this economy?!
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
You mean those eXtinction rebellion vegans with 3 or 4 kids? Yup i have some friends like that. They hate that argument but fault me for ditching being a vegetarian after 11 years. I fail the purity test they dontOriginally Posted by Lucas Quaan
No troll; the greenest choice any human can make is to not have any children.
Yes troll; it is also a hilarious argument to bring up with your vegan/eco friends who have just started a family and explain how you are just climate compensating for your meat eating and international travel.
Schopenhauer:
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident..
Weird how y'all complain about anti-vacc'ers. Rampant COVID and lockdowns while we develop green tech are good for the environment and the best hope for avoiding the global meltdown in 2040.
stopping climate change, peak neoliberal edition.While i wholly agree. In the EU (from the top) the message is slowly being trickled that a 'individual energy budget' is in the works. Early days but most certainly getting messages out there. This is from snippets voiced by Timmermans the EU green deal tzar who nobody voted for and i am ashamed to say is Dutch plus completely detached from reality.By all means we should reduce consumption individually but it isn't going to happen. Energy demand will only increase, I doubt there's any serious economist anywhere who thinks it will go anywhere but up all over the world for the foreseeable future.We are energy gluttons tho. From the standby light on your TV to highway road lights on full blast at 3:00, fully illuminated shops at night etc etc. Also 60% of my KwH or gas price in NL is tax in one form or another.Agree but there comes a point where it isn't a choice. Old people turning off their heating in the winter because they can't afford high fuel prices only looks like a choice to the most callous libertarians imaginable.I didnt say I wasnt a hypocrite. Something can be worth it and you still dont choose to do itTIL Lall is vegan
You know this but maybe others don't, fuel is produced in such vast quantifiers from such cheap materials that pricing it on the thin edge between life and death for the vulnerable is very much a choice.
Energy has to be produced in large amounts. I don't think any green transition is possible without making green energy so cheap that it would be stupid not to use it.
Achieving cheaper green energy by raising the price of carbon is pissing your pants to keep warm for green politics. People will only vote for things they think they'll benefit from and cheaper energy is the lowest of all possible denominators.
Viking, n.:
1. Daring Scandinavian seafarers, explorers, adventurers, entrepreneurs world-famous for their aggressive, nautical import business, highly leveraged takeovers and blue eyes.
2. Bloodthirsty sea pirates who ravaged northern Europe beginning in the 9th century.
Hagar's note: The first definition is much preferred; the second is used only by malcontents, the envious, and disgruntled owners of waterfront property.
"individual energy budget" isn't what it sounds like right? R-right?
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
Ask not what your largest industries can do to fight climate change, ask what you are willing to sacrifice to protect their shareholders.
"Holy shit, I ask you to stop being autistic and you debate what autistic is." - spasm
Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 Dashboard (updated link)
Anyone but Corbyn would be 20 points ahead...
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics...b-33-27-28-oct
Give it a rest. Corbyn was shit at politics and made a limp wristed attempt at a remain campaign because he wanted it to happen.
It just turns out that pretty much everyone else in Labour is also shit at politics.
Even an American?
"Holy shit, I ask you to stop being autistic and you debate what autistic is." - spasm
Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 Dashboard (updated link)
Corbyn's problem was that he was too political. He sees politics as a way to achieve social outcomes rather than as a tool for providing stability while society is quietly managed by corporations.
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
If "too political" in Keckerese translates to "really bad at politics to the point he was the most effective Tory campaign tool " then yes, yes he was.Corbyn's problem was that he was too political. He sees politics as a way to achieve social outcomes rather than as a tool for providing stability while society is quietly managed by corporations.
We live in a post-political world, Corbyn failed to appreciate that. He had success with a grass roots political movement, but it was never going to break through because the mainstream is not political.
Politics has been completely subverted by the political interests of non-political entities.
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
Maybe the non-political entitles are just better at politics than the politicians who are too political...
meh
Yes, because we live in a developing dystopia where capital dominates social relations and tightly regulates correct political thought by using the obscene mediating lens of culture wars to establish a narrative truth. That's why the liberal establishment is obsessed with politeness, process and civility to counter the conservative establishment's outrage, crassness and slurs. It's a pastiche of politics which stops all political process and progress.
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
The whole "DoNt hAvE kIdS" argument only really flies if you genuinely believe its impossible for a human to be a net positive to the environment. If you believe it IS possible, its almost obligatory to have kids to try to outnumber and out maneuver all the retards who burn the environment down and their dumb kids.You mean those eXtinction rebellion vegans with 3 or 4 kids? Yup i have some friends like that. They hate that argument but fault me for ditching being a vegetarian after 11 years. I fail the purity test they dontNo troll; the greenest choice any human can make is to not have any children.
Yes troll; it is also a hilarious argument to bring up with your vegan/eco friends who have just started a family and explain how you are just climate compensating for your meat eating and international travel.
cope
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
Natural conclusion of the 'having kids is awful for the environment' argument is that Dignitas is the only true believer option.cope
I am mankind's last, best hope, by Boris Johnson
https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/polit...20211101213845
I think the natural conclusion is 'having kids will be awful for them because of the environment' and opting to not bring life into an increasingly destabilising world.Natural conclusion of the 'having kids is awful for the environment' argument is that Dignitas is the only true believer option.cope
Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves for slaughter.
"don't have kids to save the planet" seems only one step behind "kys to cut emissions" in terms of climate change doomer logic. I thought we mostly agreed such individual responsibility twaddle was just the way corporate cockwits absolve themselves of responsbility by trying to present the person buying a plastic bottle as equally responsible for pollution as the corporation that produces billions of them.
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