Tarquin Holmes

Every day, I see people telling us "the real environmental problem is population growth." Yes, it does contribute to the pressures on the natural world. But while the global population is rising by 1% a year, consumption is rising by 3%. That's the biggest issue.

i do feel like the so-called “soft left” joining forces with the pol profs to try and start a vendetta with, checks notes, the entire discipline of philosophy is revealing of something quite important. sorry lads it’s a thread.

English tea comes from India. The successful planting of tea bushes in Northern India was an economic turning point in the history of the British Empire. I am the child of a British tea planter family in Assam, so I do know what I'm talking about!

You gotta admire how Kushner, like his father-in-law, says the quiet part loud. This has always been the long-term Israeli strategy - create ‘facts on the ground’ that make the occupation irreversible. Now it’s openly recognized and blessed by a US administration.https://twitter.com/JacobMagid/status/1223955444785393664 …

"I know you from Twitter" - Embarrassing for everyone involved - Humiliating - Too online "Your reputation precedes you" - Cool and scary - Mysterious - Potentially ominous - Old-timey villian

As an undergraduate, I tried to apply at LSE and in the process realised how much it cost, and that I didn’t meet the language requirements. So I gave up. Now I work there. So yeah don’t give up, don’t cut scholarships and abolish education costs.https://twitter.com/lastpositivist/status/1223780150212427776 …

Today, I talked to a friend who is an Uber driver who has become so deeply depressed. He works all the time & feels like he’s losing his mind. “This is not life,” he said. Precarious, underpaid gig work is not just an economic problem, it is a major public health issue.

Population is not a driver of climate change: it's a bogey man built around racism and eugenecism. The poorest half of the global population, some 3.5 billion, are responsible for only around 7% of global emissions. But the richest 10% of people are responsible for 50%.

In an alternate dimension Nagel's "What is like to be a bat" actually vividly describes the experience of being a bat.

Earlier today I visited my local lord in his palace; I bowed low before ascending the steps and remonstrating with him. Nothing else happened. Confucius insists there were ritual dynamics that need interrogating here.

‘[Johan] Lysius was accused of spreading ... an “unfounded hope for better times”.’ If accused of the same I’d plead not guilty with a clear conscience.

My GF is an EU national so you’ll excuse me if I don’t give a shit what broadly white British people who yelled abuse at people like me who went out and pitched their “people’s vote” have to say today.

If Bernie Sanders has taught us anything, it's that pelicans can be used to mix cement.