How did this manifest before? You only need to look at the advertising of the time. Take the 1950s America - McCarthyism and the red scare in full force. Most US marketing relied heavily on how buying American made you a good patriotic citizen, living the American dream… even if the product wasn’t 100% American.

If ethical boundaries get thrown out in times of trouble, we don’t have ethical boundaries. It’s easy to not step over the line in times of peace.

Rules that apply to all nations, much like we have for Antarctica.

It’s only the timescale I’m unsure about.

Venison probably. Boar is also good.

On poultry, I’d go turkey over duck. Not keen on goose, too fatty.

I’m going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We’re currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

Not really. Power induction through air is inherently lossy. That’s just physics.

No, we have a vaccine for that.

I can speak a bit on the UK as I live there.

The use of gas is for two things.

• Balancing against wind and solar, both of which can evaporate at certain times of year. Without more storage we’re left in a position where we basically need to be able to support 30GW of demand just on gas.

• Frequency stabilisation and cold start capability. We never seem to drop below 4GW of gas (or biomass - anything spinning mass) generation. Even if we had excess wind and solar, some gas will be burnt “just in case”.

Right now we need more storage, and better connections from the new sources of power (the coast for wind and international connectors) to the centres of demand (the cities). Power stations were historically located much closer to where the demand is, and our electricity grid is still shaped by that.

Today has been a good example. Lots of wind and sun but still 16% gas. We even switched some wind farms off today because we couldn’t get the power to where it was needed or a way to store it.

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly

The plant is called rape. The seed is rapeseed.

It’s more interesting to ask if " Death to Hitler" would have got you this reaction in the 30s. By the 40s we were at war with him and his followers. In the 30s he was in power, but there were still diplomatic relations.

If they wanted to, or be independent. Whatever really, but very few there wanted to be part of china.

Watching Hong Kong get amalgamated into the rest of China after it was returned by the British has been so sad. They’ve raged. They’ve fought. But slowly they’ve been consumed.

It’s not sinking. It’s not a boat that sprung a leak. It’s staying exactly where it’s always been. It’s getting submerged by sea level rises.

Saying it’s sinking makes it sound like a local phenomenon. Sea level rises are global.

In Europe, European cars are a better choice than Teslas.

Cheaper and better EVs are here from lots of European, Korean, and (to a lesser degree) American brands.

It’s been a long time since was “the only choice”.

Oh no, not the oil!

/s

They know they can’t compete at the new game, so want to play the old game.

Trouble is, the new game already started.

EU leaders will now have to decide whether there is sufficient support to take action.

All EU governments are facing immigration crises which are fueling the rise of nationalistic factions. They could take an action here which would stop a population being forcibly displaced. Can they not draw a line between the two?

Yes, you have the support at home.