Exactly. I think Labour would do it, more than happily, were it not for the housing crisis. They understandably want to build a lot, quickly, but they need to be convinced that the crisis won't really be 'solved' without medium- long-term thinking, which includes eco-friendly standards.
Yeah, no room for complacency! But that's why we need to do the difficult things quickly (e.g., building all the pylons we need to link up new green energy developments) and also do things that aren't likely to be undone (which is why Labour shouldn't drop the requirement for new homes to have solar panels).
In the UK, the environmental movement has actually won the argument, but I don't think we've fully realised it, yet. Even Conservative voters (if not MPs) want climate action as a high priority.
I'm sceptical, but I think that as long as carbon capture happens alongside shutting down fossil fuels, it's at least worth a try.
Yeah, you're right about the footnotes. I read someone the other day saying they felt like Kuang was writing with an imaginary social justice scold hovering over her, and I think that's about right. I find it odd that someone feels they have to say 'racism — which is bad, by the way — exists in this society'. We know it's bad! Even racists don't like being called racist!
I started reading it yesterday, so I'll let you know.
Why did you dislike it?
I'm not going to go through this point by point. Some of it I think is probably about right and some not. What I will say is that I don't think it's consistent to say people were crying wolf over Trump, who tried to overthrow one election and would have done the same with this one had he lost, and then in the same place to suggest that a Harris win would've resulted in the end of democracy based entirely on a loosely defined notion of elitism.
Yeah, if I was in charge I'd build council housing for the rich, too (like the Barbican). Then the money currently going on rent and mortgages could be better invested elsewhere!
sell them for full market value and put any profit into a fund to build more council houses
This is probably the way to go, because then the Tories won't be able to run on 'Bring Back Right To Buy'.
My point was that if the man is still 'armed', he hasn't been 'disarmed', he just has one less (type of) gun. For example, if I told you that there was a man in my street with two guns, and then added that he'd now been disarmed (forcibly or otherwise), you would assume that he now had zero guns.
The fact that he didn't call them trash is the salient point here.
I mean, apart from anything else, the word he used, whatever it was applied to, was 'garbage'.
I'd start with Strange New Worlds. It's very classic Trek in terms of its themes and stories, but as it's still being made it has contemporary audiences in mind. If you like it, I would then go to TNG.