“The commentariat has settled on a consensus view that we should all calm down a little, that whatever’s coming is not as bad as woke zealots would have us believe,” writes #AlanRUSBRIDGER @arusbridger. And yet, “everyone with eyes in their heads knows what’s coming.” #climatechange #climatebreakdown #climate #GeorgeOrwell https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/columns/62594/appeasement-climate-change-george-orwell?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shared_link

In den 1930er Jahren wussten Appeaser um Bedrohung durch den Faschismus, ignorierten sie aber.

Heute ist Bedrohung die #Klimakrise, und wieder haben wir Appeaser.

Die Appeaser von heute unterscheiden sich kaum von denen von 1940.

#AlanRusbridger in #ProspectMagazine
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/columns/62594/appeasement-climate-change-george-orwell

In the 1930s the appeasers knew about the threat of fascism, but chose to ignore it.

Today the threat is the #ClimateCrisis - and once again we have appeasers.

Not much differentiates the appeasers of today from the ones of 1940.

#AlanRusbridger in #ProspectMagazine
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/columns/62594/appeasement-climate-change-george-orwell

‘In Britain it’s apparently now all about divide and rule. Drive in those wedges, and forget the science.‘

https://t.co/4xas5mEZOl

#alanrusbridger #sunak #climatechange

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The privacy debate changed forever a decade ago, when #EdwardSnowden handed a group of journalists a trove of #NSA documents detailing a massive, lawless global surveillance campaign. The tenth snowdenversary has prompted a lot of commentary. I really liked #AlanRusbridger's retrospective:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/edward-snowden-state-spying-guardian-alan-rusbridger

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