Tenho lido e visto imagens sobre o que se passou e está a passar com os agricultores nos Países Baixos.
Entretanto, ontem li isto e depois, também isto, "The beginning of the end of Britain's net zero consensus":
"The towns and suburbs in the vicinity of Heathrow airport receive cruel treatment. Then, last month, one blasted itself on to the map and, I argue, into history. In Uxbridge, the Labour party lost a winnable by-election as locals mutinied against a green levy. Since then, Rishi Sunak, the Conservative prime minister, has said nice things about fossil fuels and confirmed plans for new drilling licences in the North Sea. Britain will look back on this seemingly banal election in this ostensibly quiet summer as the beginning of the end of its net zero consensus....Had politicians been frank about the cost of the green transition, voters might have felt prosperous enough to pay it. Now? Not a chance.Let us dispose of the idea that net zero is popular. Yes, in Ipsos surveys, voters endorse various green policies by supermajorities. But when a financial cost is attached to them, most are rejected. ("Creating low-traffic neighbourhoods"? 61 per cent against to 22 per cent for.) And that was in November 2022, after a summer of sadistic heat. Last month, a YouGov poll found that around 70 per cent of adults support net zero. If this entailed "some additional costs for ordinary people", however, that share falls to just over a quarter. The wonder isn't the political faltering of net zero. The wonder is that it took until Uxbridge....The trouble is that it really does capture something about politics. A change can be in the works for years, under the surface, until an event exposes, legitimises and accelerates it."
Isto faz-me recuar à Primavera de 20011 e a uma reunião num Sábado de tarde, na Ribeira do Porto, onde se discutiu regionalização e passei-me. A mensagem que eu fixei foi: se a impostagem for de Lesboa é má, mas se for do Norte é boa. Este tweet é dessa altura:
@filipelib Como aqu eles tipos que acham que ser enrabado por um gajo do Norte é melhor do que ser enrabado por um gajo de Lisboa
— Carlos P da Cruz 🇺🇦🚜🇳🇱🇬🇪 (@ccz1) June 8, 2011
Se as pessoas passarem fome por causa dos políticos de direita, é mau. Se for por causa do ambiente, é bom!
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