Here's a lovely demonstration of how recycling and return schemes don't necessarily provide ALL the "savings" you might hope for. "We" are not going to get out of this with just "efficiency." But then, "we" are not going to get out of this at all, are we?
There are dozens upon dozens of ways to crack a movement. One of the more inventive ones is the snitch jacket - to make it seem like someone who is NOT an agent/asset/informer/source actually is. And given that it is very difficult (impossible!) to prove that you are NOT an agent/asset/informer/source, well... This from a... Continue Reading →
"Thankfully "Behind the Blip" doesn't subscribe to the fetishes of computer science. The essence of software is revealed through sarcasm. "Sarcasm is truth," Fuller claims. For a frequent collaborator with the collective Mongrel, this is quite apposite: the term comes from an an Ancient Greek verb meaning 'to tear flesh like dogs'. Those accustomed to... Continue Reading →
Have moved house. Had to pack up one or two books and then unpack them. You'd think this would cure me of buying more. Ha ha ha ha. It's a damn pathology. I understand its roots, (I think), I understand the costs. I choose not to act to cure that pathology. Human, all-too-human. But I... Continue Reading →
On a bit of a weather/climate-disaster novels kick at the moment ("The Sixth Winter" by Orgill and Gribbin). The Weather War is one I bought a while back and it just sat on the shelf. In short - it's fun, but nothing you need to struggle to find and read, 'less you're as strange as... Continue Reading →
A man washes up on a Mediterranean beach, with no memory of who he is. The past he does not have in his head is getting in the way of his future - men with guns menacing him, beautiful women he must learn to trust - or fear. Can he learn how to use his... Continue Reading →
Those who are trying to do something about the climate crisis are used to being lied about, smeared and sneered at. Some of those doing the lying/smearing/sneering are defending their own (short-term) economic and political positions (politicians, pundits and other poltroons)A larger number of people are terrified, but feel powerless (and, frankly - in the... Continue Reading →
This slender gem is one I shall have to come back to again, I think. The narrator meets the titular Utz - a fascinating MittelEuropean figure just the once, but is able to piece together the before and the after (the first scene tells of Utz's funeral). Its set mostly in Prague, from the 50s... Continue Reading →
So the obvious question is why aren't tens of thousands of people involved in the "Just Stop Oil" actions? There are loads of different answers to this question, that will convince different people. I don't think it is as simple as "people think climate change isn't a big deal" or "people don't like to Get... Continue Reading →
The latest IPCC report (working group 3 - the "what to do" one) has sunk without trace - too much else going on, it's an old story, there's no new news. Here's the front page of the Grauniad website this morning- And this, after one of their journos, Fiona Harvey, had worried publicly that the... Continue Reading →
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