It’s for good reason that they’re the flagship bird for Wingspan!

The ethical use case for SRM is one in which governance conditions fail to enable adequately rapid decarbonization, and then there is a revolutionary change in governance that allows effective and equitable management of SRM

It is to the credit of UStA that they cover the surcharge for staff (PDRAs, faculty, fellows), though not currently for students, for whom it’s arguably even more of a burden and access issue. But that is surely a tenuous position in the currently HE financial climate.

I cannot stand the “critics say” framing. What on earth could you call the NHS surcharge — a fee for a service that you concurrently pay taxes for — other than double taxation? It is blatant to the point of absurdity. Dump it in the river.

Had the same response to the Rumi quote!

Presumably there was a time when many more of our 2nd order relationships existed through our shared commitments (to religion, community, leisure)?

It’s an interesting side note that so many of our second order relationships are about consumption. Our modern lives are steeped in transactions — perhaps then it’s not surprising that, unexamined, these relationships are seen as nothing more than transactional.

4. We pay again and again for a failure to raise taxes. It’s a false economy, for which we suffer in multiple ways.
Fair Taxation Saves Us Money.