Where do you think the cider presses get their apples?

Are the apples good? My plum tree has gone nuts too but its a) watered which a lot of orchards won't be, and b) almost all the fruit is absolute shit or eaten to buggery.

Given that espousing support for them is a terror offence now they don't even need to do that much.

No2Nato is George Galloway outfit which specifically differentiates itself from other "anti war" groups by not criticising Russia.

I'm not surprised that there was "interest" in some of the people there.

Can't wait for him to backtrack on this one too!

Define ecofascism then, because its easy to just fuck around and shit on an opinion without providing an alternative.

I'm not saying we need eugenics or a cull., and I'm certainly not blaming the global south for existing in a world that was driven by short sighted rich European capitalists.

What I am saying is:

1. Population is a problem provided the status quo doesn't change
2. The status quo just ain't changing. Not fast enough, anyway.
3. In light of this the current state of human existence (and the systems which support it) could be reasonably described as a virus. Exponential growth at the cost of a host? Prove me wrong.
4. Solutions? Fucking sea change and a total shift in the way we occupy the planet. We're not over crowding we're over producing (and over consuming).

What's eco-fascist about that, and if you don't agree, please let me know.

Resorting to calling people ecofascists feels pretty reductive. As the world currently exists, and under current economic systems, population growth is a pretty huge issue, especially while basically zero effort is being put into reducing carbon emissions globally.

There was an article somewhere in these threatlds that gave a decent summary:

The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today's, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources

What a lot of people (myself included) struggle with is that the amount and significance of change needed to make an actual difference is huge right now, and it requires a concerted global effort to get anywhere close to halting what feels like an inexorable rise in earth's temperatures.

Until we can change this then humans might as well be described as a virus and looking at forced population control (in this case of transport etc. under covid) and seeing a measurable improvement in our environment feels cathartic and, honestly, easier to obtain than the global overturning of capital.

If you think that this will apply to CCTV and surveillance I have a bridge to sell you...

In countries with half decent worker protections this is not a problem.

What about words like "historian"? An Historian and a Historian both "work"; my rule of thumb as a native speaker would be "does it feel odd to say" for this.

And owned by google to boot, no?

I'd rather that than some miserable cunt telling people not to do things they enjoy.