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Good idea S_A. Greta Thunberg springs to mind. -
We watched a mildly amusing George Clooney film called 'Up In The Sky' last night, in which the corporation for which his character worked was encouraged to do precisely this by adopting the slogan 'glocal'.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostHi Richard - yep, we've certainly nearly fallen out in the past! But for me the wasteful unsustainability of capitalism makes the "eastern philosophies" (for want of a better collective term!) and socialism "natural bedfellows". Perhaps our main disagreement would be how we get there - unless you maintain the idea of there being "no alternative" to the present system?
Well that's a shame! Maybe some other time.
The argument I would use about any amelioration in Britain making up a miniscule contribution to overall betterment is that someone, somewhere, has to set an example and make a start - with campaigning up from the grass roots to get the word over on international stages where governments can be pressured to press for agreements: that old Green slogan encapsulated in "think global, act local".
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....Very glad to see young people get involved with issues in this way....lets hope they get involved in the unexciting stuff btoo....I'll have to go into the garage and see if my Geistetner still prints....Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostHi Richard - yep, we've certainly nearly fallen out in the past! But for me the wasteful unsustainability of capitalism makes the "eastern philosophies" (for want of a better collective term!) and socialism "natural bedfellows". Perhaps our main disagreement would be how we get there - unless you maintain the idea of there being "no alternative" to the present system?
Well that's a shame! Maybe some other time. The argument I would use about any amelioration in Britain making up a miniscule contribution to overall betterment is that someone, somewhere, has to set an example and make a start - with campaigning up from the grass roots to get the word over on international stages where governments can be pressured to press for agreements: that old Green slogan encapsulated in "think global, act local".bong chingComment
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That was wonderful wasn't it? Especially someone called "Amelia", a young person passionately committed to Extinction Rebellion - I felt like cheering after hearing her defiant outburst...Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
I think you can try to make your own local effort... like leaving the garden wild for Hogs, Butterflies, Bees, Birds etc etc...feeding them all.... I even saw an Orange Tip today, first for many years...very flightily on the wing with a Small Blue and a Peacock...Comment
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostHi Richard - yep, we've certainly nearly fallen out in the past! But for me the wasteful unsustainability of capitalism makes the "eastern philosophies" (for want of a better collective term!) and socialism "natural bedfellows". Perhaps our main disagreement would be how we get there - unless you maintain the idea of there being "no alternative" to the present system?
Well that's a shame! Maybe some other time. The argument I would use about any amelioration in Britain making up a miniscule contribution to overall betterment is that someone, somewhere, has to set an example and make a start - with campaigning up from the grass roots to get the word over on international stages where governments can be pressured to press for agreements: that old Green slogan encapsulated in "think global, act local".
....good chance for you to get involved in a citizens assembly S/A....if anything happens like that/is made to happen....
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If that formed in a middle class-dominated district like this, it would probably be a serviette union...Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post....good chance for you to get involved in a citizens assembly S/A....if anything happens like that/is made to happen....Comment
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........surely somewhere there must be a huge pile of defunct serviette rings....
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Thanks, JR. This should keep me reading for another while. Powerful stuff.Originally posted by Jazzrook View PostComment
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What’s needed if course, is for politicians to act now. Forget about their differences and the lining of their pockets. They live on this planet too.Don’t cry for me
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Indeed - and this is a point a number of us have been making lately. As compared to earlier situations, in which the rich could treat others as expendable when their usefulness to themselves was not immediate, and hive themselves off into safe enclaves, ie Knightsbridge property or Caymans tax havens, they too (the rich) will be at the mercy of global warming. I'm not sure if the Cayman Islands won't be overcome by rising sea levels. Or am I naïve, and the Cayman Islands just a useful figment of someone's overpaid imagination for tax purposes?Originally posted by BBMmk2 View PostComment
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Sickening. I just don't understand how people can be so wilfully stupid and cruddish as to swallow such filth. I wouldn't even use it as toilet paper.Originally posted by Joseph K View PostComment
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