tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post1998173757023935871..comments2024-01-27T20:23:45.771+00:00Comments on Sulci Collective: None Of The AboveSulci Collectivehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-40646818609922506862009-12-30T22:57:38.015+00:002009-12-30T22:57:38.015+00:00It hink that's my point exactly. I think the w...It hink that's my point exactly. I think the whole climate change debate is up the swannee - we should be focusing on stopping people seeing themselves as belonging to tribes, and start seeing themselves in a global context. The debate that matters isn't about the size of someone's engine but how we treat our global neighbours.Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-88437643131413540492009-12-30T12:54:03.158+00:002009-12-30T12:54:03.158+00:00Re climate change, I don't wish to rain on you...Re climate change, I don't wish to rain on your parade but there are too many vested interests to permit any global agreement.<br /><br />So what do we have instead? 10:10 and adverts on the radio beseeching you to drive 5 miles a day less to help save the planet??!! No, ban cars outright (like that's ever going to happen).<br /><br />We were sent some unbidden energy-saving lightbulbs through the post today. They wouldn't fir through the letterbox, so they had to be delivered in a van. Gawd help us make these cost-benefit equations in our minds.Sulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5179795275664264195.post-22357464678952519632009-12-30T12:40:23.748+00:002009-12-30T12:40:23.748+00:00We have a very different mood from 1997, I think. ...We have a very different mood from 1997, I think. Then there was a general sense of optimism whereas now there will just be a sense of relief. We expect no better domestically, but we hope that with Brown gone we will no longer be an international laughing stock.<br /><br />A pox on both their houses indeed - but I shall not be spoiling my paper. I am genuinely scared by the prosepct of rising extremism, and the easiest point of entry they have is our not taking them seriously - like the saying about the devil making us believe he's not real.<br /><br />I think you have your finger right on the button of the liberal problem - freedom TO becoming freedom FROM.<br /><br />If I had a single political wish, it would be around climate change. A mass change in our physical world is inevitable. What we can do to limit its effects is begin to erode on a global level the ridiculous and pernicious notion of the Nation State, of borders. The most catastrophic effect of climate change will come not from the rise in sea levels but from the ned for mass migration this engenders. The sooner we get rid of the absurd idea of national borders the less devastating for all concerned the consequences of this need for geographical mobility will be.Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.com