An edited version of the letter I sent to New internationalist has appeared in the latest issue. I've put the stuff they edited out in bold... I opened the latest issue, with its teasing headline "How We Stop Big Oil" with a sense of trepidation and weariness. I feared it would follow a format I've... Continue Reading →
Short review of long (130 minutes?) film. This very well-made film is a paean to a "simpler" time, when America was king of the world. The whole thing is drenched in various nostalgias and yearnings for (mythical) pasts that are not actually compatible, but the whole thing is moving at Mach 10 (or 10.3 in... Continue Reading →
A few days ago an article appeared in the Guardian - ‘It cannot be activism as usual’: Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer on the way forward for climate justice It was a write-up by Bill McKibben, and the subheading was "As the climate movement hits another impasse, activists Luisa Neubauer and Kumi Naidoo explain why... Continue Reading →
"We" need to do x. "We" need to do y. "We" need to do z, bell the cat, save the world. Who is this "we" you speak of, white man? That's my problem. Any time I hear a sentence with the word "we" in it about how "we" just need to get the right technology-support... Continue Reading →
The "All Our Yesterdays" project is finally working (thanks to all the new followers, btw, and especially those retweeting). By "working" I don't mean fame, fortune, influence, a book contract, podcast interviews, adoring acolytes and groupies (though some of those listed things might be nice). I mean I am in touch with people who have... Continue Reading →
No, this book definitely didn't turn up today. Because I am not buying any more books, and anyone who says I am is as honest as Boris Joflyhnson. And don't you dare judge this book by its front cover But maybe its back cover. And the fly-leaf? That's what we're all here for, amirite? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQWz4gVcP8
The "well, what's your alternative?" question ENRAGES me. Because I have answered it so many times, and the people asking me (almost always) know that I have; they just don't like my answers. These answers would move them out of their comfort zone, decentre them, force them to do (different) hard work. It enrages me... Continue Reading →
One thing people don't get about climate change is just how quickly the blanket of C02 is thickening because of our emissions. Sure, there's that Al Gore on his elevator stunt in the film "An Inconvenient Truth." And there's this that shows we are thickening the blanket more and more quickly (because we are burning... Continue Reading →
Quick thought, because a) working on an overdue Doctor Who article, b) working on The Job (CCS) and c) have a call imminently with an old friend. So much of what frustrates me about me/social movement organisations comes down to the inability/unwillingness (because it's hard, and if you don't practice, you never get better --... Continue Reading →
"CARDIAC" - geddit? Not my most forced backronym ever, but close. So, why do we get stuck in describing problems - like, I dunno, the imminent collapse of the ecosystems that make human civilisation possible, to choose an example entirely at random - endlessly, rather talking about the solutions? Blah blah, yes, belling the cat.... Continue Reading →
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