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Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
@urlyman@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

#climateDiary
The UK government has published a 12 page plus cover summary PDF of a much larger report. It is entitled

‘Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security’

Its lead page lists 7 key judgments, each with an Analytical Confidence Rating of high, moderate or low.

3 of the 7 are high.

The text of the judgments follows

#effingPDF: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf

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@boss@xarxamontgri.masto.host replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@urlyman
Is it the one they wanted to keep secret because impacts national security?

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David Hembrow
David Hembrow
@hembrow@todon.eu replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@urlyman Page 10:

"The UK is unable to be food self-sufficient at present, based on current diets and prices"

"The UK does not have enough land to feed its population and rear livestock"

There's a solution to this particular problem. One we've known about for decades. They're saying it, but without actually saying it: #GoVegan.

And all of it will also apply to most other countries as well, of course.

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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷
@KimSJ@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@hembrow @urlyman
The trouble with promoting #GoVegan as a solution is that at the moment to most people it feels too extreme. Practically, it’s also more extreme than it needs to be. Hill farmed sheep, for example, mostly use land and resources which would not be switched to other production. #GoFlexitarian may be a better message for now.

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kat donegan 🇵🇸✊
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@kathimmel@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@KimSJ @hembrow @urlyman sigh. how is going vegan *more extreme* than ecosystem collapse? i'm sorry, but that position is, frankly, bonkers & it's part of the reason that it feels unlikely we'll be able, as a species, to meet this existential challenge.

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Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
@urlyman@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@kathimmel @KimSJ @hembrow

Objectively, given the options that exist now, it is bonkers, but people are not objective. They most readily respond to what is directly in front of them, and collapse isn’t, yet. Or they react to social contagion which can spin off from quite small numbers

https://youtu.be/V74AxCqOTvg?si=MmhkFR5Vz5WKPX_f

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kat donegan 🇵🇸✊
kat donegan 🇵🇸✊
@kathimmel@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@urlyman @KimSJ @hembrow yeah, i appreciate the cognitive dissonance. it just doesn't make things any less frustrating.

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Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
Jon lower-chance-of-Snowfield
@urlyman@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@kathimmel 💯

@KimSJ @hembrow

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@Nicovel0@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@urlyman so all that money and hardship inflicted on environmentalists by the spycops was well worth it innit

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