Concrete Achievements

Tag: climate

  • I thought it was interesting that ⁦@egbertlachaert⁩ specifically set 2030 as the planning…

    I thought it was interesting that ⁦@egbertlachaert⁩ specifically set 2030 as the planning horizon for the next government. Triple significance: 1. Two election cycles so they clearly want to build a relationship that lasts (and with 80 seats if standaard.be/cnt/dmf2020090…

    they can pull back the nationalists and far right/left in 2024 they could get a very comfortable majority; 2. significant climate change action will need to have happened by then, particularly around cars; 3. 2030 is Belgium’s 200th anniversary, by using that date

    specifically they distinguish from the nationalist parties who will almost certainly not want it acknowledged or celebrated – while they can put forward a vision of a modernised country (with a constitutional reform at the point of the 2024 election bedded in).

    Not that this means it will all happen, but after the last two years of drift it’s a welcome level of ambition. Will be looking to see what @PaulMagnette and Conner Rousseau can achieve on the social democratic side of the ledger with the Greens.

  • This is point-missing. The chlorine in the chicken is less important than the poor…

    This is point-missing. The chlorine in the chicken is less important than the poor hygiene for which chlorine-washing is an inadequate solution. The geostrategic issue is also the US desire to attach the UK to their regulatory system rather than the EU’s. twitter.com/BBradley_Mans/…

    There isn’t any sovereignty in Brexit beyond “choose the US low-regulation high-carbon model, with less trade, or the EU high-regulation low-carbon model, with more trade”. The UK’s post-Brexit sovereignty will be entirely “pick your master”.

    Plenty of the British right have a teen crush on some imagined American deregulatory paradise (to which I say, try shipping vegetables across state lines). Their fragile alliance with nativist authoritarians won’t last long, but might last long enough to sign on to the US system.

  • This is point-missing. The chlorine in the chicken is less important than the poor…

    This is point-missing. The chlorine in the chicken is less important than the poor hygiene for which chlorine-washing is an inadequate solution. The geostrategic issue is also the US desire to attach the UK to their regulatory system rather than the EU’s. twitter.com/BBradley_Mans/…

    There isn’t any sovereignty in Brexit beyond “choose the US low-regulation high-carbon model, with less trade, or the EU high-regulation low-carbon model, with more trade”. The UK’s post-Brexit sovereignty will be entirely “pick your master”.

    Plenty of the British right have a teen crush on some imagined American deregulatory paradise (to which I say, try shipping vegetables across state lines). Their fragile alliance with nativist authoritarians won’t last long, but might last long enough to sign on to the US system.