Yesterday, I was walking from the British Library to a lovely, affordable, kind of “greasy spoon. (I passed Judd Books …And I Didn’t Buy Anything. Whoop!) On the corner of Euston Road and Judd Street I saw two workmen beginning to put up two huge (size of the whole windows) posters on the Pret windows.... Continue Reading →
2cotAED #05: Trump and his “energy revolution”.
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
2cotAED #04: Learning from failure? No dice…
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
2cotAED #03: Cartoonists as canaries, and obeying in advance.
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
2cotAED #02: Brain-eating technologies and the zombification of a species…
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on - "2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle" (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
Two cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle #01: New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks
So, this year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on. I have to write it, you don't have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). They'll be short and (I hope) to the point. Re: the... Continue Reading →
On the rebound: two examples of how “efficiency” and “green” can be even worse than the status quo
We are told by the new priests to put our faith not in a bearded sky god (sooo 1st and 2nd millennium!) but rather in .... technology. Social problems with Bad Behaviour by the lower orders? Solution: More surveillance (and graded punishments and rewards) - problem solved! Economic problems with low productivity? Solution: More Growth,... Continue Reading →
Excruciating “12 #climate resolutions” – you have to weep for this species, even though it’s a stone-cold killer
We are murder apes. Sorry, planet-trashing murder apes is what "we" are (1). How frightfully embarrassing. And yet, you also have to have (2) some sort of compassion for us, so bewildered and capable of lying to ourselves on so many levels. This should not be a surprise, since we are born into lies, we... Continue Reading →
Most climate academia seems to be ahistoric stamp-collecting
I am speaking of the social "sciences" stuff here. People captured and captivated by the hopium on display, and unwilling (or incapable) of thinking where it might all go. Because to point to the obvious likely dangers ahead would be - I don't know, "normative"? Or would harsh everyone's mellow or something. Or is just... Continue Reading →
Podcasts: Hisham Matar on James Baldwin, Private Eye on Justin Welby, Jeremy Clarkson etc
Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts. Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage - excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_jufwQBSM The... Continue Reading →