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Felix MacNeill's avatar

As a retired (not particularly successful) former environmental manager, I couldn't agree more.

All the "positive" don't-mention-the-war bullshit has been a total failure.

Maybe there's just no option left but to tell the truth.

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I Know Nothing's avatar

There's the option to keep our gobs shut too.

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Andy Kenworthy's avatar

never really liked that option!

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I Know Nothing's avatar

I'm not advocating it 😂

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Andy Kenworthy's avatar

God knows there are times when I should keep my mouth shut!

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I Know Nothing's avatar

It's valuable to be aware of all options

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Felix MacNeill's avatar

You could also poke a soldering iron into your ear. There is a near infinite number of "options"

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I Know Nothing's avatar

Fab, thank you. I think one of the reasons I tolerate the addiction to this stupid medium is the hope that I might stumble across one of the incredibly rare individuals who's sane enough to see reality for what it is and mad enough to write about it.

JHK is a blast from the past. He was always a racist and a Zionist.

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Andy Kenworthy's avatar

Thanks and yes JHK is now Trumptastically insane.

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I Know Nothing's avatar

Oh. TDS or fan of?

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Hamersley's avatar

Thank you so much for this! As a fellow ‘sustainability professional’, I felt your words viscerally.

I’m a sustainability, behaviour change / communications expert, and the orgs I work for never like my advice, nor take it. They just ask for Instagram reels or YouTube videos

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Andy Kenworthy's avatar

I feel you Hammersley. It's very much "Yes, yes, yes, that's very interesting, but how do we meet this months 'engagement' KPIs and donations?" Greenpeace now tops out at something like US$300 million a year. Mads Christensen currently leads them, and doesn't appear to have ever been in prison. My friend Roger achieved more than them with some chalk paint, a toy drone and some mates. He's currently serving out a 5 year stretch. Coincidence?

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Entangled Curiosities's avatar

Our Kiwi resistance to rock the boat, even when we desperately need to find the hole to plug it and pump water out before the ship sinks, will be the death of us.

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Kevin Hester's avatar

We all fell for the "Sustainability meme", it's embarrassing to admit it. But for the last 13 years I've tried to own the error and face the reality of the unfolding collapse.

Collapse isn't an event, it's a process, a process you'd have to be deaf, dumb, blind, or paid not to see it.

https://kevinhester.live/2019/09/05/collapse-the-only-realistic-scenario/

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Kit Withers's avatar

Thank u andy. I,ll keep it handy.

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David Key's avatar

One of your finest, Andy. Thank you.

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Baz Caitcheon's avatar

‘Prodigy on kazoo at our grandchildren’s funeral, shit our pants in private … you have a way with words my man. The many layers of use-by mental health bro 😎

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Andrew George's avatar

This line made me laugh out loud. Congratulations.

Meanwhile, writing jokes on here about the future feels a bit like playing the Prodigy’s Firestarter on Kazoo at your grandchildren’s funeral.

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