National emergency briefing on how climate change will affect the uk

[IzzyGone]

https://www.nebriefing.org

has anyone else been to a screening of this film?

Its about climate change and the national emergency surrounding this and the solutions to some aspects of this situation

Wait... so we can't just watch it online? Some of us are housebound so unable to get to screenings. If it's that important surely we should all have easy access to it?

Thanks for the link. Looks interesting.

Just checked. Our local community centre has a showing. It’s hosted by a local eco group, who I’d never heard of. They seem to host lots of general information events about eco subjects, without being too judgemental or political - they just want to improve the environment for the local area. Sounds good.

They're happening all around us. News just last night of extreme flooding in Istanbul just one example of a multitude of catastrophic flooding/drought/fires around the globe

Globalisation has destroyed living standards here. It is the poorer people here, those of us without inheritances, that have paid for any improvements elsewhere, so don’t be expect me to welcome it. Once again imperial economics have targeted working people, driven up inequality, and poverty has increased massively.

Where’s ‘here’? Not the UK.

If anything, in recent years it’s de-globalisation (eg Brexit, energy shocks and rising protectionism) that has done more harm to living standards. But living standards haven’t been “destroyed” by any credible measure.

Of course they have and it’s very well documented. The stats have been showing intergenerational inequality very clearly since the age of New Labour and the impact of the boomers forcing us younger generations into private renting. Personally, my boomer parents could buy their own home in their 20s and find work with no qualifications. They had too many kids for their income level, but could afford to actually live on wages. I’ve worked twice as hard, outqualified them both, and wasn’t able to buy until age 42. There’s been several threads on here from the middle class about how they can’t afford the little treats and luxuries they used to have. But anyone making these ridiculous statements isn’t interested in reality. What are you selling, and why? Does it work?

If you are arguing that there's intergenerational unfairness and stagnating growth then I agree with you. I'm very concerned about both.

But those weren't your claims, so weren't what I was replying to.

You started by suggesting no action had been taken on climate change in 30 years. In fact UK carbon intensity has halved from its peak.

You then moved to three more things we don't see in the data, at least not in any kind of general sense: "Globalisation has destroyed living standards", "imperial economics have[...] driven up inequality", "and poverty has increased massively."

When are you counting globalisation from? And where in the charts on real income (living standards), income Gini coefficient (inequality), and relative and absolute poverty (poverty) do you see these massive effects?