Matthew Jee
@freedomforall.net
The future is unwritten.
Knowledge + action = power
The most important lesson of Buddhism? - You can change yourself.
Knowledge + action = power
The most important lesson of Buddhism? - You can change yourself.
Labour is not a progressive party. They are not trying to address wealth inequality, which is the cause of capital misallocation and services degradation in the UK.
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Labour is not a progressive party. They are not trying to address wealth inequality, which is the cause of capital misallocation and services degradation in the UK.
Hence the conclusion that the necessary discontinuous change is societal - a conclusion also reached by the UNEP and others. It seems to be the way to avoid physics/the natural world delivering ever greater waves of painful change. I know it's looking bad but we're in the death throes of patriarchy.
Someone rebuked me for saying out loud what everyone knows:
WE NEED A PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION IN GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS.
It's not only me saying that. Here's what the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program wrote in October 2022:
#ClimateSky #GreenSky
WE NEED A PEACEFUL NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION IN GOVERNANCE, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMICS.
It's not only me saying that. Here's what the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program wrote in October 2022:
#ClimateSky #GreenSky
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Hence the conclusion that the necessary discontinuous change is societal - a conclusion also reached by the UNEP and others. It seems to be the way to avoid physics/the natural world delivering ever greater waves of painful change. I know it's looking bad but we're in the death throes of patriarchy.
True. And if we can cut emissions faster (we can) the chances of not tipping things improves exponentially.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
True. And if we can cut emissions faster (we can) the chances of not tipping things improves exponentially.
This looks like an unfortunate consensus, and I'm troubled to believe it. Assuming this is the case, we've much work to do.
Not my opinion. We know the situation in the Pliocene, and the conditions there for lower CO2 than now. Half of climate scientists polled expect a 3C+ rise, which is what we would expect for a return to Pliocene cnditions. This is confirmed by modelling (below)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
The expected departure of future climates from those experienced in human history challenges efforts to adapt. Possible analogs to climates from deep in Earth’s geological past have been suggested but not formally assessed. We compare climates of ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This looks like an unfortunate consensus, and I'm troubled to believe it. Assuming this is the case, we've much work to do.
On a page with the unedited version embedded :-)
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
On a page with the unedited version embedded :-)
Of course, and as the nature of nonlinear mathematics is unpredictable, we don't know if we've tipped anything yet, and if we do, we won't know until after the fact.
November 11, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Of course, and as the nature of nonlinear mathematics is unpredictable, we don't know if we've tipped anything yet, and if we do, we won't know until after the fact.
SoftBank clearly have. I presume other financials have too.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
SoftBank clearly have. I presume other financials have too.
It's less than the lawyer fees for discovery in Florida would be .. a purely commercial decision, though Trump will, of course, lie about that.
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's less than the lawyer fees for discovery in Florida would be .. a purely commercial decision, though Trump will, of course, lie about that.
The court wouldn't have to with Starmer as PM .. he would negotiate a settlement. More likely the BBC do, or Starmer gets involved and they do a token sum settlement .. which for Trump means $15m.
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The court wouldn't have to with Starmer as PM .. he would negotiate a settlement. More likely the BBC do, or Starmer gets involved and they do a token sum settlement .. which for Trump means $15m.
I understand that, so thanks. To clarify, "those due to feedback effects would continue" could include, for example, reduced albedo due to ice melt and/or emissions of methane from melting permafrost? This is stuff that Hansen's latest work quantifies?
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I understand that, so thanks. To clarify, "those due to feedback effects would continue" could include, for example, reduced albedo due to ice melt and/or emissions of methane from melting permafrost? This is stuff that Hansen's latest work quantifies?
They have a lot more than that.
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
They have a lot more than that.
Neoliberalism leads to inequality leads to fascism. It feeds it and certainly could never fight it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Neoliberalism leads to inequality leads to fascism. It feeds it and certainly could never fight it.
Have you misread that? - they are currently suffering a loss of income of $1m a day and half a million lost profits a day. So on $350m ballpark income losing $175 ballpark profit. Their profit on the full $12bn of revenue is much higher.
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Have you misread that? - they are currently suffering a loss of income of $1m a day and half a million lost profits a day. So on $350m ballpark income losing $175 ballpark profit. Their profit on the full $12bn of revenue is much higher.
I don't think there's a place for violence, but we can't afford the rich. When people learn we're on a path to 3⁰+ of temperature rise perhaps they'll see this?
Not my opinion. We know the situation in the Pliocene, and the conditions there for lower CO2 than now. Half of climate scientists polled expect a 3C+ rise, which is what we would expect for a return to Pliocene cnditions. This is confirmed by modelling (below)
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Pliocene and Eocene provide best analogs for near-future climates
The expected departure of future climates from those experienced in human history challenges efforts to adapt. Possible analogs to climates from deep in Earth’s geological past have been suggested but not formally assessed. We compare climates of ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I don't think there's a place for violence, but we can't afford the rich. When people learn we're on a path to 3⁰+ of temperature rise perhaps they'll see this?
If we stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow? Within five years? What then?
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If we stopped burning fossil fuels tomorrow? Within five years? What then?
So sorry to hear your words Maaike. I can relate to your experiences. It feels horrid. Xx
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 AM
So sorry to hear your words Maaike. I can relate to your experiences. It feels horrid. Xx
Already a nightmare in the UK.
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Already a nightmare in the UK.
Was it ever about the money? Not all of the externalities are delayed, so the net outlays are likely insignificant. It was performative economics - for their perceived judges/critics in "the market". I hoped Labour would be competent technocrats - a low yet realistic bar. They failed to clear that.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Was it ever about the money? Not all of the externalities are delayed, so the net outlays are likely insignificant. It was performative economics - for their perceived judges/critics in "the market". I hoped Labour would be competent technocrats - a low yet realistic bar. They failed to clear that.
Think proactively.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Think proactively.
Saved £3.4bn by delaying a year (should have been a day one priority). Likely cost several times that in costs external to the DWP (education, health, prisons, police, etc). Caused misery to hundreds of thousands.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Saved £3.4bn by delaying a year (should have been a day one priority). Likely cost several times that in costs external to the DWP (education, health, prisons, police, etc). Caused misery to hundreds of thousands.
And consumers aren't really looking at the price tag ... so they are getting fleeced on the back end.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
And consumers aren't really looking at the price tag ... so they are getting fleeced on the back end.
Are they worried about coverage of the paedophile prince?
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Are they worried about coverage of the paedophile prince?