The great irony of all of this? Most of these climate change impacts will be borne, most immediately and acutely, by poorer nations in the Global South--precisely those on whose behalf the memo authors are ostensibly advocating. That's why this memo makes me viscerally uncomfortable. [13/n]

I find this idea we can just adapt and give up on trying to halt temp rise wildly idiotic. Adapt to what then? You basically have a moving target. Which we may get anyway as you say because of the land sinks, but doing it by choice would be insane and likely very very expensive

But the Spanish example shows that the opposite can also occur

Climate impacts could create anger and confusion, which is exploited to delay climate action

Impacts could also crowd out resources that would otherwise be used for climate action

We call these vicious cycles: derailment risk

The draft bill removes ILR once somebody's income drops below £38,7000 for 6 months.

As drafted - it reads as mandatory, not discretionary

There is no maternity leave exemption in the draft bill.

(Would be unlawful discrim - but Bill disapplies HRA + Cons leaving ECHR)

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I tried this on Twitter and the two answers I got were the current Pakistan government expelling undocumented Afghans and Erdogan’s Turkey expelling undocumented Syrians. Neither of which is an example of revolving permanent settlement grants, nor are they encouraging company to keep.

A journalist from Mon State fled Myanmar to continue her passion but said she had to stop working or risk losing her pregnancy.

"The moment I left my job, our family's financial struggles returned. My father... began secretly collecting rubbish to make money."

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