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This is equivocation. It is not the case that not following your prescribed actions equates to giving up.

Yes it’s going to be a rollercoaster when the AMOC circulation collapses. Rapid ice melt on Greenland could tip the balance during the next few decade...

Or just change course now. If that's our future and people would start to realize this to be a very likely outcome, then they will pick up guns and re...

Nice, next we just need to turn down the dial on greed, power games etc. I was there 30yrs ago, but was seen as a crank.

Thanks, a true visionary. A pity we didn’t all get on board at that point.

I agree with everything you say, short of “ripping the bandaid”. You and I have reached the realisation of the seriousness of the issue. It’s a road t...

Are you saying that the existence of sceptics shows that there are people who are not feeling the impacts of climatic change? No, I’m accepting that t...

I see through you.

Does that mean that I’m a lounge lizard?

I'm all for education, but we don't have time to educate people in order for them to support solutions to a damn comet on collision course with earth....

Yikes. Biden stole classified documents and gets off. Now we know what Trump needs to do to get off the majority of his indictments. Prove he is old a...

he could be far better than Biden or he could do something absolutely crazy and start a world war. Fair enough. I have on occasion thought he (Trump) ...

It’s not just you. I couldn’t find the climate change thread earlier. I went via my comments.

Somehow, I am not totally reassured. It will give us a bit of breathing space on the climate front. But won’t protect us from civilisation collapse. B...

Don’t worry, here in the U.K. we will be saved by the cold blob. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_blob

That would be Trump. And what about the “I would be a dictator for one day” comment? (I’m not looking for an argument, just curious)

Rather, the position climate change should be about at this time in history should be about the strategies and mitigation solutions and how to practic...

I find no virtue in protecting the planet for the planet's sake. I don't care if we lose thousands of polar bears if it means the promotion of human l...

Yes, I see Israel pulling the U.S. into the region. They will not feel secure until there are more U.S. airbases around them. Their control over the U...

I’m not going to pretend I have a clue - but at face value, colonialism. I don’t think colonialism is appropriate to describe what’s going on here. It...

As far as I’m concerned, the primary worry for us is not Palestinians or Jews getting their nation-states (neither are perceived as necessary to peopl...

I think I just need to leave you in your box. Take a look at this tweet about a farmer being told to leave his land. https://x.com/amwogakhalwale/stat...

Yes and people who have been campaigning for the end of the oppression of Palestinians have been labelled as anti-Semitic, or smeared with anti-semiti...

Interesting piece by a good journalist on the IDF campaign. https://lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n03/tom-stevenson/rubble-from-bone

My analogy was to illustrate that the U.S. is the senior party here, not wise, but in the position of a power broker in the Middle East. Israel is per...

But this problem may also depend on some implicit assumptions that mislead our understanding of the problem itself. Yes there is a risk of that, altho...

And it seems to me the Israeli claim for the well-being and return of the hostages is even more valid, and they may very well "rake" for them. They’ll...

Please don’t feel you will be rejected if you bring up eastern philosophy on this site. There are a handful of people here with an interest. I am one ...

Yes I see that and agree. There is a situation where the absence of freedom due to obstacles can be challenged. It requires action for there to be an ...

"There is no such thing as absolute freedom" That’s quite a claim, if the definition is “absence of obstacles”. Surely you mean to say, I, or philosop...

I mean Israel has now crossed the Rubicon. In the future even if they are able to have good relations with their neighbours, they will always be vulne...

How so? I did say if the ICJ verdict is genocide and the ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine people has happened. I’m thinking in terms of ter...

A very powerful talk by Chris Hedges. He pulls no punches. Good speech, sums it up nicely.

All right. I would still add that for both Palestinians and Israelis the problem is not just the idea of being historically wronged and dispossessed b...

But the biggest attack on the US since WW2 was carried out with a camping knife. Yes in terms of conventional weaponry Isreal is far more powerful. Bu...

Yes I see this. But I also see an arms race in the Middle East though (on the assumption that Israel continues with the ethnic cleansing and remains d...

I’m not looking to make a formal moral argument, rather to seek a cause for the Israel Palestine conflict. I see the reality of the Jewish Diaspora ov...

I see what you were saying now, it was about the US withdrawing their bases from the Middle East. I was thinking more in terms of the US retreating in...

It may be so that in the end the US will have to withdraw like France did from the Sahel. And Israel too, presumably?

What you are describing is the inevitable result of having an enquiring mind. Enquiring minds have contemplated this conundrum for millennia and what ...

Yes, I can’t see a global coalition forming at the moment, although it might not be necessary. A coalition of Middle Eastern leaders might be able to ...

I'm well aware that this is a problem - perhaps the central problem. Equal rights for Palestinians is not compatible with the idea of a Jewish nation ...

What’s the failure? Simply The West can only see barbarians and the Arab world can only see infidels. Your own description of Hamas portrays them as b...

The UN continues to beclown itself. This is inevitable in such a caldron of apartheid and oppression. To characterise this as the UN as a sympathiser,...

I think we can see what you’re saying here. This is what is going to have to be dealt with though. There seems to be a failure by “The West” and by ex...

The Israeli’s won’t agree to this because it will result in Palestinians (Arabs) becoming elected into government at some stage. Due to the Palestinia...

Well I would agree that this is what we see before us now. However we can’t ignore the way this formation was handled by the powers at the time. Not t...

Here's a two-state solution and how to get there: Yes, I agree, but it’s not happening any time soon. Unless it’s imposed from outside, that is.

Thanks for the confirmation that it was a fake video.

Yes, I agree about the achievements of Jewish people over the millennia and how the Diaspora has played an important formative role in modern civilisa...