The things I think we should be very concerned about but our government isn’t taking action: 1. COVID because it’s causing mass disability and without good health nothing can be achieved. 2. Climate change - we are moving to a much more unstable situation with AMOC and west Antarctica ice sheet
But let’s just talk about vulnerable people in hotels.
Shocking isn’t it. Many are displaced by weather events now like the floods in Pakistan.
3. The fact that the science cosplayers at the top of institutional medicine (who shoved actual experts aside and botched the pandemic response by e.g. denying COVID is airborne) are now attempting to grab control of the response to climate change. They will 🤬 it up exactly like they 🤬ed up COVID.
Well worth reading this from the House of Lords of displacement caused by weather events. Small boats isn’t the thing we should be worrying about. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/climate-chan...
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Focusing public attention on “the other,” like immigrants, is a convenient smokescreen: it diverts scrutiny from entrenched inequality and systemic failures, letting elites ignore climate collapse, healthcare crises, and widening social gaps while the real drivers of suffering remain untouched.
Deep economic inequalities worsens both COVID and climate crises: lack of access to healthcare and resources amplifies suffering, while marginalized communities bear the brunt of climate instability. Inaction entrenches disadvantage, making these crises as much social as scientific.
Yes absolutely.
Humans just don’t seem to be good at long term consequences. And governments are very very bad at anything that doesn’t help their prospects of getting re-elected. I now realise that that is all they care about, and all they have ever cared about since Howard at least. It’s so discouraging.
Yes. It seems that a term in government is nothing more than an extended election campaign.
Yes I totally agree, I never really thought about the short terminist thinking of politics before and how it’s just not working for the situations we are now facing. Can kicking is the worst thing we can do but they only think in terms of short periods of time.
🎯 They don’t seem to care about our falling birth rates either ❗️