The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the Problem Lady; Phase 1, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors... Continue Reading →
Recycling Rules: Carnival of Coal is a blast from the PR past…
My smart, funny and generous friend Professor Chris Wright has co-authored a piece about the Australian coal industry and some of its PR moves over the last 20 years or so. It's at the Conversation. Please share/retweet/comment and generally feed my ego.. Btw, Chris has a co-authored book coming out in September; Climate Change, Capitalism... Continue Reading →
DILC and the Problem Lady; Phase 1, the activists
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren't) 'resolved'. You can see an old video I made here, that stars its progenitors, Prof Frank Geels and Caetano... Continue Reading →
#Australia and #climate – a book, ‘Environmental Boomerang’ warning in 1973…
So, when climate change burst onto the scene in 1988, I doubt too many hardcore environmentalists were surprised.(1) Carbon dioxide gets a few pages in the 1972 'Limits to Growth' book, which went through numerous printings. The earliest Australian book I have been able to find (so far!) is this - 'Environmental Boomerang', published in... Continue Reading →
#climate, Kevin Anderson and the smoke-filled planet/room
Professor Kevin Anderson is what they call a mensch. For years he has been fearlessly reporting on what we are actually tipping into the open sewer we call our atmosphere. Not what we are promising to emit, or what we would like to believe we are emitting, but what is actually going up. He ties... Continue Reading →
People’s Park and the warnings we had; 15th May 1969
Born on April 20, during its first three weeks People's Park was used by both university students and local residents, and local Telegraph Avenue merchants voiced their appreciation for the community's efforts to improve the neighborhood.[7][11] Objections to the expropriation of university property tended to be mild, even among school administrators. However, Governor Ronald Reagan... Continue Reading →
8 reasons not to use the term ‘neo-liberalism’
I went to a conference (see my critique here) that had some nuggets of gold. One of them was a short and engaging presentation by one Bill Dunn. There's a longer paper that I hope to link to, but for now, based on scribbled notes, here are those 8 reasons 1. The term is used... Continue Reading →
‘Resistance’ rituals: “Historical materialism” or the material of history
You'd think an academic conference - attended by people with the willingness to think and criticise, and a hunger for a transformed world – would be looking at the questions of what what went wrong, of how the 'revolutionary' fervour of “1968” gave us not the new Jerusalem, but the new Las Vegas. 'Neo-liberalism' (see... Continue Reading →
8th July, 1996 – the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network first mentioned (I think)
Did I ever mention I do a blog about climate history (with a bias to Australia and the US)? According to (my ability to search) Factiva, on this day in 1996 came the first mention (by name) of the Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, in an article called When green and gold don't mix The Australian... Continue Reading →
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