So, there was a trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s for activists to do spoof newspapers - Metro, Evening Standard, Manchester Evening News, Financial Times. These varied in wit and skill, and usually met with, well, injunctions and so forth. But they were entertaining for a moment or two. In the aftermath of... Continue Reading →
"The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming Social drivers and physical processes" https://youtu.be/YRiE-ZQtYpk It's a report by some folks in Hamburg. You can read the report here https://cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/about-cliccs/news/2023-news/2023-01-31-pm-climate-futures-outlook.html… We're just not acting fast enough. We've got one foot lightly (VERY) lightly on the brake, and a lead foot on the gas (aka accelerator).... Continue Reading →
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1629491958056984577 This video is rougher than a badger's arse. Please help add to this list of what I need a) a microphone for decent sound quality b) the camera further back to catch the tops of the balls c) better juggling skills (!) d) e) f) etc
I have made up a bunch of words (smugosphere, emotacycle, egofodder etc) to try to label phenomena that are easily missed if you don't have the vocabulary (I missed them for decades, until the penny dropped). I am going to make a video for each and - ideally- put them on Twitter. But at the... Continue Reading →
Using juggling as a metaphor for dealing not only with the energy "trilemma" - of security of supply, price and climate change, but the energy quadrilemma - all the other environmental problems too... Rough as a badger's... bottom, but you get the idea. You're allowed to a) laugh (at/with/whatever - we all need a laugh)... Continue Reading →
I have a template now, and a rhythm that works for me. Here's the latest. Tell me what you think, how they could be improved (highlighting words in the quotes when I am reading aloud would be one thing. Leaving out some of the 'comic' asides would be another. What else? https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1626294996511997952
So, Manchester City Council has 96 Councillors. 91 belong to Labour, and a more craven bunch of neoliberal stooges you are unlikely to find this side of the Conservative party. The City Council has an executive system, meaning 10 of the (Labour) councillors run the show, with a "cabinet" and a "leader." There are six... Continue Reading →
I made another "Looting the Ivory Tower" video. I intend to make a bunch more. Suggestions welcome. https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1624331409799237632
We think in metaphors (or I do and people around me seem to), but those metaphors can take us to bad places and (therefore) need to be interrogated, and challenged. So, as the old study showed, if you frame crime as evilness you get one lot of policy proposals being popular, if you frame it... Continue Reading →
There's another new report out, this time based on a survey of 2000 adults (1) that tacitly pins the blame for climate inertia on various forms of 'denial' and delayism. You can read about it on the excellent edie.net website here. I could be wrong, but these sorts surveys and reports seem to get done... Continue Reading →
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