Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
God, it pisses me off from afar how much the UK with great happiness, enthusiastically threw away all its soft power like it was radioactive because “we wanna be JUST LIKE ‘MURICA!”
Yeah, there is a leftist case to be made for Brexit, but Britain pig-headedly voted for it because “funny internet pictures told me to!” and when that fucked up because of course it did, the UK happily votes to double down on more of the same each and every time and they blow a gasket when someone tells them to stop doing this.
I mean I do kind of agree, but the elephant in the room wrt Brexit is that the effects of immigration were very unevenly felt — with certain communities, particularly those with a lot of agricultural laborers, affected quite negatively — and the only response anyone on the mainstream left had when xenophobes took advantage of the resultant discontent was, “shut up, peasant, it’s good for the economy”
Tbqh though the main thing preventing anything good from happening in Britain is that they haven’t begun to get their heads around what the British Empire was. They have to construct these insane fantasies, because the alternative is realizing that they’ve literally never had a proper economy outside of wringing the colonies dry and then spending the years since then selling off the silverware
God, it pisses me off from afar how much the UK with great happiness, enthusiastically threw away all its soft power like it was radioactive because “we wanna be JUST LIKE ‘MURICA!”
Yeah, there is a leftist case to be made for Brexit, but Britain pig-headedly voted for it because “funny internet pictures told me to!” and when that fucked up because of course it did, the UK happily votes to double down on more of the same each and every time and they blow a gasket when someone tells them to stop doing this.
I mean I do kind of agree, but the elephant in the room wrt Brexit is that the effects of immigration were very unevenly felt — with certain communities, particularly those with a lot of agricultural laborers, affected quite negatively — and the only response anyone on the mainstream left had when xenophobes took advantage of the resultant discontent was, “shut up, peasant, it’s good for the economy”
Tbqh though the main thing preventing anything good from happening in Britain is that they haven’t begun to get their heads around what the British Empire was. They have to construct these insane fantasies, because the alternative is realizing that they’ve literally never had a proper economy outside of wringing the colonies dry and then spending the years since then selling off the silverware