DancingThroughChaos

This is the most satisfying news you’ll hear today ! Do you remember when a group of boys, strangers to each other, formed a human chain to save a dog from fast flowing water? Today, local authorities unveiled a “Unity Statue” at the same place to celebrate human unity.

Things scientists have blamed for climate change since 2020: - Beef - Dairy - Lamb - Wool production - Cheese - Leather - Burping cows - Sheep on hillsides - The British uplands generally Things scientists have not been given equivalent grant funding to investigate: - 100 companies producing 71% of global emissions - Aviation doubling since 1990 - Container shipping running on bunker fuel - Data centres consuming more electricity than entire countries - Fast fashion producing 10% of all carbon emissions annually - $13 trillion in annual fossil fuel subsidies Gerald's methane budget for the year: about 100kg. Estimated annual emissions of a single superyacht: 7,000 tonnes. One of these has a lobby group. Spoiler: it's not Gerald.

Bait & switch on Assisted Dying. 1: get it through the Commons by saying don’t worry about the details, the Lords will scrutinise it; and 2: shrill protests that Lords are “holding it up,” causing a “constitutional crisis” when they give the scrutiny you promised.

🚨DARK DAY FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM Parliament has just voted in favour of legalising abortion up until birth There was no mandate for this It was not in any manifesto Nobody voted for this We will now potentially see babies aborted days before they are due to be born Horrific

First vote was 70-56 the other way. It’s becoming really clear that this kind of legislation falls apart under scrutiny. Time to move forward and confront the huge challenges facing social care, palliative care and the NHS.

Assisted suicide in Scotland “will require a degree of reprioritisation”, according to the Government. In black and white they are telling you that they are going to cut healthcare funding so they can afford to kill people instead. This is not what society should be doing.

The ruminant portfolio covers every type of difficult land. The cattle take the lowland permanent pasture and the river meadows: the richer ground, the valley floor, the land too wet for crops but productive enough for a large animal. They build the deepest soil. They produce the highest volume per animal. They are the anchor of the system. The sheep take the uplands. The fells, the moors, the exposed hillsides, the thin-soiled slopes at altitude. Ground the cattle can use only marginally. The sheep's smaller frame, more efficient thermoregulation, and behavioral adaptation to high ground make them the right animal for terrain that otherwise produces nothing. They maintain the habitat the cattle cannot reach. The goat takes the margins. The scrubby valley sides, the overgrown field corners, the invasive thicket, the steep and broken ground that even sheep find challenging. The goat goes first. It clears. It opens. What comes after it is land the sheep can use, and after the sheep, land the cattle can use. Three animals. Three niches. The full spectrum from valley to summit to marginal scrub. Together they make productive every type of ground that exists in a British landscape. No technology does this. No alternative system covers this range. The three animals between them have the whole landscape mapped. They have always had it mapped. The map is in their feet.

Nobody thinks this bill is safe. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Not the First Minister. Not the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Not Disability groups. Not doctors. No one thinks it’s a good idea to let the NHS kill patients. 💉👇

As a patient, I disagree. I’m sure Dr Gulhane is a good and conscientious physician and I admire his ongoing medical practice, but if my GP said he believed in assisted suicide, I would change GP. I want a doctor who sees medicine as a life-saving vocation, not a life-ending one.

Shock poll finds that people would rather be looked after than killed

After hours of scrutiny, and no meaningful changes to the Bill accepted, experts and professional bodies have not changed their position: The Assisted Dying Bill remains deeply flawed and unsafe. Bill supporters blame everyone else but won’t make the Bill safe.

🧵THREAD: Tomorrow, Scotland's Parliament votes on one of the most consequential laws in its history. The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults Bill is catastrophic for all vulnerable to the lie of 'assisted' killing. Scotland, don't rush this fatally flawed bill through.

My letter NEVER published in The Guardian 👇 The Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 requires no psychiatric assessment unless you’re under 25. Depression doesn’t disappear on your 26th birthday! Vote no! 👇

Who will be affected by the McArthur bill?

As a Scottish doctor for 41 years, a carer and a graduate in medical law and ethics I strongly urge you to vote AGAINST this appallingly dangerous legislation.

This was a shocking revelation in yesterday’s debate. Once assisted suicide is seen as a form of palliative care, then true palliative care will quickly disappear (too expensive) and the lethal pills will become the normalised (eventually only) option.