This below, minus the hyperlinks, appeared on reneweconomy.com.au Engaging with climate and energy policy in Australia can be bad for your neck. Either your head is in your hands as the latest political idiocy unfolds, or you suffer whiplash as you encounter smart concerned people who are dealing with real world issues. It’s a long... Continue Reading →
about abeyance – when your group death spirals, and the broader movement with it…
With the planet on fire, it seems odd to be having to write about the decline of the climate "movement" - but given what is going on in the UK and Australia, the countries I know best - it seems reasonable to do so. The point has been made to me well, that the existing academic work... Continue Reading →
Every day is Groundhog Day for Australian climate politics #Auspol
The wonderful news and analysis source Reneweconomy pubilshed this piece below on Wednesday 23rd September. The Czech writer Milan Kundera once observed that “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” The same goes for the struggle for adequate climate and energy policy in Australia. The first instinct is always... Continue Reading →
Of #terrafurie, energy policy and groundhog day – #auspol #failedtransitions
I guess I have a millionth of an inkling of what it must be like to be a person of colour anywhere, but especially in the US, UK or Australia. Given that I am as whitebread as it comes, that needs an explanation. One thing that comes through in reading people of colour, listening to... Continue Reading →
After the Goldrush: 11 theses (and 15 songs) about Extinction Rebellion and “what next?” #oldfartclimateadvice
Preamble The numbers tell the story, or a story. The numbers attending the latest Extinction Rebellion rebellion were far lower than a) last years two efforts and b) their private hopes. The emissions reductions are far higher than we would have thought this time last year, but that’s a) not enough to hit this year’s target... Continue Reading →
Thoughts on lunching out
It's interesting about lunching out, isn't it? Because if the reason that you're lunching out, is that you're having a mental health crisis - anxiety, depression, etc - all of which are entirely rational response to the shitstorm that we're in, then you're probably not able to stomach having to admit to someone else that... Continue Reading →
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