Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
I mean I do kind of agree, but the elephant in the room wrt Brexit is that the effects of immigration were very unevenly felt — with certain communities, particularly those with a lot of agricultural laborers, affected quite negatively — and the only response anyone on the mainstream left had when xenophobes took advantage of the resultant discontent was, “shut up, peasant, it’s good for the economy”
Tbqh though the main thing preventing anything good from happening in Britain is that they haven’t begun to get their heads around what the British Empire was. They have to construct these insane fantasies, because the alternative is realizing that they’ve literally never had a proper economy outside of wringing the colonies dry and then spending the years since then selling off the silverware
Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.
I mean I do kind of agree, but the elephant in the room wrt Brexit is that the effects of immigration were very unevenly felt — with certain communities, particularly those with a lot of agricultural laborers, affected quite negatively — and the only response anyone on the mainstream left had when xenophobes took advantage of the resultant discontent was, “shut up, peasant, it’s good for the economy”
Tbqh though the main thing preventing anything good from happening in Britain is that they haven’t begun to get their heads around what the British Empire was. They have to construct these insane fantasies, because the alternative is realizing that they’ve literally never had a proper economy outside of wringing the colonies dry and then spending the years since then selling off the silverware
Brexit was also very much driven by London profiting massively from financial services, while the rest of the country rotted away. Rural vs Urban, English vs British all were components.