A transformational change in Australia’s assessment of cumulative impacts is required, including the comprehensive assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of coal mining, if the Reef is not to suffer from the “tyranny of small decisions.” As described by Odum (1982), this phenomenon involves a big decision arising post hoc from an accretion of... Continue Reading →
My first actual academic article?! On hostility to renewable energy…
This one started life as a "Conversation" article (never published) and was expanded into a perspectives piece for the journal Energy Research & Social Science. Many thanks to the editor, the peer reviewer and to Sarah "The Wife" Irving and Joe Blakey for their careful proof-reading. Whoop!! "Wind beneath their contempt: Why Australian policymakers oppose... Continue Reading →
On anxiety, social class and who feels comfortable at “top-down” meetings
On anxiety, social class and who feels comfortable at "top-down" meetings Published on 15 Dec 2013 Some not quite fully thought through speculations. As well as social class, of course, there's gender, ethnicity, age, ideology to put into the mix. But as an initial stab at answering the question "why are people content to continue... Continue Reading →
Doomed, I tell you – 2014 video
Deliberately ranty (!) and necessarily short presentation to second year geography students at University of Manchester on Thurs 27th November 2014
RIP Machiavelli the allotment cat, 2004(?)- 31 March 2017
Mach the allotment cat has died. He was, we think, about 13 or 14, which is an astonishing knock for a stray with FIV. He came into our lives in about 2004 or 5, as a stray who would sneak in the cat flap and steal the food of Cassidy and Delilah. While Cassidy might... Continue Reading →
The Hot Mess – How we are failing the ‘greatest moral challenge’
Ha, I now have a column at The Conversation, called "Hot Mess: Unravelling the climate challenge paralysis" (I wanted "unravelling climate (,) policy paralysis" but knew that it would look too tricksy). Anyway, you can read it here. Ten years ago today, Kevin Rudd spoke at the National Climate Summit at Parliament House, in Canberra,... Continue Reading →
Motorcycle Emptiness and emotathons
Too tired (long story) to do any creative work on the Thesis, and having done enough grunt work on it too, for today, I am in the process of writing a paper for a conference here in Manchester about alternative futures and popular protest. It will not be a popular paper. It will slag off... Continue Reading →
“Don’t know much about love”
Ah, this takes me back, to Mozambique, oddly enough (long story, another time). Baby can you teach me - how to Baby can you reach me, I'm calling out for you Underneath your window tonight I know I ain't no romeo, so help me make it right If I can get this message through to... Continue Reading →
That word “laboratory.” I do not think it means what you think it means…
Then again. So, one of the pleasures of being a PhD student is that you get - occasionally - to sit around and talk about stuff you've read (it's less pleasurable when it's something you've written [i.e. supervisions]. But I digress). As part of the cities/urban sustainability reading group, we were getting our thinking gear... Continue Reading →
Men and #feminism – labels and so forth.
So, with a fellow PhD student I've set up a blog called 'feminismandtwoguys'. The about is this We are two guys (Steffen and Marc) who are studying in Manchester. This site is about us trying to learn from different types of feminism. That involves listening, reflecting, honouring the vast amount of physical and intellectual work... Continue Reading →
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