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“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”

“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024

‘The right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was finally recognised as a fundamental human right by the United Nations in 2021-22. Some countries, notably the US, the world’s worst historic polluter, argue that UN resolutions are legally influential but not binding.

The right to a healthy environment is also enshrined into law by 161 countries with the UK, US and Russia among notable exceptions.’

Juggling With Eggs

“Powerful interconnected business and political elites – the diesel mafia – are still becoming wealthy from the existing system. Dislodging this requires a huge grassroots movement using tools like human rights and public protest and every other tool in the arsenal of change-makers.”

“I think there’s millions of invisible climate migrants today, and unless we get a handle on this problem and do so quickly, that’s going to look like a trickle before the flood.”

David Boyd

@JugglingWithEggs can I just point out the concept of a “diesel mafia” and how that would be funny if it were not real

@JugglingWithEggs Those people are already wealthy.

Replacing diesel is a lot harder than replacing gasoline in cars. Diesel is what you use for serious energy density.

Do the easy stuff first.

@mike805

The UK is banning the sale of new diesel cars from 2035. Why wait over ten years and then still have those vehicles spewing their $hit for another decade or more? That’s the power of lobbying.

City dwellers are going to start demanding local ULEZ zones, because it’s the out of town folk in their diesel 4x4s that are wrecking our air, health and future.