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<\/a><\/figure>\r\nOn Monday, in New York, crowning a global wave of strikes and protests around the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg told the UN what’s what in no uncertain terms:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/bW3IQ-ke43w<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n See \u2018The climate crisis explained in 10 charts\u2019 https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/sep\/20\/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Full text of Lady Hale\u2019s judgement\u00a0https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-49810680<\/a>. \u00a0Video:\u00a0<\/a>https:\/\/youtu.be\/BzXzRk08cMg<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n New York Times article and video<\/a><\/p>\r\n Today the tide turned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Today there is hope for Greta\u2019s generation, and all who follow.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is the first time in many years that I have felt hopeful about the general global political situation. Three women have stirred this hope. On Monday, in New York, crowning a global wave of strikes and protests around the climate emergency, Greta Thunberg told the UN what’s what in no uncertain terms:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/bW3IQ-ke43w\u00a0 See \u2018The … Continue reading “Hope at last”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tubthumper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} This morning, the eleven most senior judges in the United Kingdom, the Supreme Court led by Brenda Hale, asserted in uncompromising terms the sovereignty of Parliament over a wayward and unelected executive bent on a City<\/a> led disaster capitalism<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/a>This evening, Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the House of Representatives in the United States, announced the beginning of impeachment proceedings against a similarly wayward President who lost the popular vote, and has been abusing his office for the past three years.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
By 2025 we should<\/i> be marching lock-step – in a global green new deal – towards a better world likely to survive the coming climatic onslaught we are already too late to stop, and winning the battle to prevent it getting worse. Today there is hope.<\/p>\r\n
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But, sadly, by February \u00a0Hope seeks a thread to cling to<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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