Roger Hallam is one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion, a group that believes the world is on the cusp of major ecological catastrophe due to climate change or whatever.
It will not surprise you to learn that he is vegan.
So it's kind of confusing that he's really mad about getting served boiled carrots during a hospital stay:
That looks vegan to me!
To be honest I'm not entirely sure what the problem is here. Maybe you can make sense of this diatribe:
30 yrs after we were told that refusing to move to plant based diets would result in the greatest spasms of human suffering in our historical experience due to ecological/social collapse, this is what the health service of the 5th largest economy has just served me up for dinner (plus 6 new potatoes I ate before I took the photo from my hospital bed).
This situation is far too serious for easy rhetorical finger pointing. This is not a problem of the hard working staff at this hospital, nor a problem for the hospital or NHS, or of any one country's "policies".
It is deeply and catastrophically SYSTEMIC - as evidenced by the complete failure of the whole global human system (with one or two peripheral exceptions) to make a system change response.
And the reason for this is because of the totalitarian ethos of utilitarian short termism and freeriderism under conditions of competition - the foundational logic of billions of decisions made every day.
A reformist regime is BY DEFINITION unable to respond to the threat of an all system pathology which is universally existential & exponential. The logic of this system is it will double down on short termism responses as all systems pressures increase: & become more irrational.
This "flaw" in the system has been known for decades and is mathematically indisputable on a theoretical level and supported by 30 years of data on the empirical level.
The deepest irrationalism in our human experience is that hundreds of millions of university educated administrators of this mass suicide still resist the only solution at this stage.
To give up their jobs and move into resistance to the system while simultaneously building alternative governmental assemblies to take over from the carbon regimes as they inevitably collapse in the next two decades.
I am involved in building networks of such individuals who can feed into the growing civil resistance organisations around the western world. Message me for details.
Sound mad? Remember you only now have 2 options - wait to die or take your chances & jump over the fence.
All of this over boiled carrots??
Me after reading this:
One respondent put it best:
You ordered the vegan option and you got the vegan option veggie boy. Now are you going to eat your carrots or not?
