Tag: Climate Crisis
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Very angry day, nice evening
I was not where I said I’d be on the night of the eclipse. I did some messaging, tried to mitigate complications it may have caused but wasn’t one hundred percent successful. That happens sometimes. I know my limits, and on the whole, I function – that’s what decades and decades of practice in coping…
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Public Emergency Number One
I have deleted my first few attempts to write about this opportunity to address the climate crisis. It’s so enormous, and comes after so many frustrations and failures. The faux left are still out there shouting “one struggle, one fight!” — meaning anyone who’s discontented enough to be out on the streets must agree with…
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Climate crisis: we’re sunlighting!
Good news! We are united! One of the startling things I learned at the excellent People’s Emergency Briefing event held in Bexhill (St Peter’s Community Centre, 3rd July) was that 86% of the population want the government to take urgent action to deal with the climate crisis. I mean, to deal with the climate crisis.…
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CRISIS!
From “argh, toilet roll!” to “argh, petrol!” A mild disturbance in the supply of absolutely anything we’re used to buying every day has more political impact than, say, people losing their homes, children going hungry, abused women being locked up with male sex-offenders, asylum seekers drowning in the channel, the govt selling our services and…
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8 days mourning
Very well, you are right. No more cheeky comments from me. Yes, we should observe eight days of mourning. DAY 1 Mourn for the ones who, in Mr Johnson’s words, have lost loved ones ‘sooner than we might have wished’ to COVID-19. DAY 2 Mourn for the ones who have died – old and young,…
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Council Steps up to the Climate Challenge
Hastings Borough Council steps up to the climate challenge
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Generating Unnecessary Heat
I went to watch the HBC cabinet meeting tonight (7th Jan, 2019) because everyone’s been up in arms in recent weeks over an apparently outrageous decision by our council to build large solar arrays on beautiful bits of the countryside around our town.
Kay Green 