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"Injustice is easy to oppose after it has receded into the past, and there is
no cost to imagining yourself as a hero long after the event. Everyone
celebrates the suffragettes now, but at the time they were vilified as hateful
spinsters and terrorists. McCarthyism is a pejorative political label on right
and left alike now, but at his peak, more Americans approved of Senator Joseph
McCarthy than frowned on his witch-hunt. Most people would like to believe
they’d have stood up against the homophobia of 1980s Britain – yet, by 1987,
only 11% of the British public believed same-sex relations to be “not wrong at
all”.
Which takes us to climate activism. This year has seen a global onslaught
against people agitating for more action to mitigate the worst effects of the
climate crisis. Courts can issue stern judgments, but so can history, and you
have to wonder its future verdict on how the persecution and silencing of those
raising the alarm only escalated when the scientific evidence had become so
cast-iron, and when extreme weather events hammered home the imminent danger
facing the human species. Here in Britain, a government which is reneging on
its climate commitments – not least by expanding oil and gas licences – is
simultaneously introducing repressive legislation to silence those holding them
to account."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
