Fight for a socialist future or join organisations/actions which do direct action against large pollutors, I’m thinking for example about Ende Gelände in Germany.

yes, fytoplankton, but those are plants too. THey’ll be extinct in +/-500 years because of the ocean acidification, which is a result of the sea absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.

Fun fact! In the Netherlands, Elsevier publishes a weekly magazine about politics, which is basically the written version of Fox News for that country. Very nice that those people control like 50% of all academic publishing.

The question was if heavier cars should pay more. Heavier cars are more expensive to buy, so this means that people who can afford a big car, will pay more. It’s a sort of progressive taxation by proxy.

For context: don’t forget that this isn’t the US: not everyone drives an SUV/pick-uptruck. Here you can see the size of the most popular car in France, compared to a pick-up truck.

I’ve been active in the Palestine-solidarity-movement for some time now, and I’ve learned that you can never, never make a comparison between the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and their subsequent submission to apartheid conditions on the one hand, and the nazi’s on the other hand because immediatly you’re branded as an anti-semite.

There’s some merit to that argument, because the Holocaust actually was the worst thing humanity ever did: the industrial destruction of entire races is unmatched in cruelty.

But seeing how everyone is comparing Putin, and before that: vaccine mandates, to the nazi’s in much more stupid ways then I’ve ever seen in the Palestine solidarity movement, without their being any sort of pushback in the same fashion as against pro-Palestinian statements really shows a double standard.

Didn’t the Kurds sort of did that themselves?