The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady; Phase 2, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
Porky pies about costs of emissions cuts nothing new #climate #Howard #Abbott
Australian journalist Lenore Taylor has been reporting incisive climate stories for a very long time. In two recent (this and this) 'must-read' articles she has explained how the rubbery figures that Tony Abbott and others throw about are simply tosh. Abbott is a tenth (at best) generation photocopy of John Howard, the Australian Prime Minister... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady; Phase 2, the activists
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady; Phase 1, the state
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the Problem Lady; Phase 1, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors... Continue Reading →
Recycling Rules: Carnival of Coal is a blast from the PR past…
My smart, funny and generous friend Professor Chris Wright has co-authored a piece about the Australian coal industry and some of its PR moves over the last 20 years or so. It's at the Conversation. Please share/retweet/comment and generally feed my ego.. Btw, Chris has a co-authored book coming out in September; Climate Change, Capitalism... Continue Reading →
DILC and the Problem Lady; Phase 1, the activists
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren't) 'resolved'. You can see an old video I made here, that stars its progenitors, Prof Frank Geels and Caetano... Continue Reading →
#Australia and #climate – a book, ‘Environmental Boomerang’ warning in 1973…
So, when climate change burst onto the scene in 1988, I doubt too many hardcore environmentalists were surprised.(1) Carbon dioxide gets a few pages in the 1972 'Limits to Growth' book, which went through numerous printings. The earliest Australian book I have been able to find (so far!) is this - 'Environmental Boomerang', published in... Continue Reading →
#climate, Kevin Anderson and the smoke-filled planet/room
Professor Kevin Anderson is what they call a mensch. For years he has been fearlessly reporting on what we are actually tipping into the open sewer we call our atmosphere. Not what we are promising to emit, or what we would like to believe we are emitting, but what is actually going up. He ties... Continue Reading →
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