Short post because - the clue is in the title - I finally got COVID, two and a half years after it began. I think I am on the mend, slowly but this could be a false dawn, and anyway, the real danger - as smart people have warned me - is that you try... Continue Reading →
Gormless “individual action!” vs “system change!” #climate “activists” talking past each other, as usual. My declaration of irrelevance, sorry, independence
Uggh. a) I have COVID b) I have had enough of climate "activists" and their gormless miss-the-point-"debates" about individual versus "top-down" action. The love-and-light brigade tell us our individual footprints matter, that we need to "be the change we want to see". They ignore the corporates (indeed, blah blah BP invented carbon footprints blah blah)... Continue Reading →
On sacrifice
So, erstwhile colleagues at Climate Emergency Manchester have written about this. Here's my two cents (or three pounds, as the exchange rate would have it). The clue is in the word; sacrifice is "to make sacred". Sacredness gets an understandably bad rap these days, given what organised religion has justified (am re-reading Brendan Phibbs' "The... Continue Reading →
On incredible (literally) elite incompetence
I am re-reading the extraordinary World War 2 memoir "The Other Side of Time" by Brendan Phibbs. It is at least as good as I have remembered and said to various people. Easily among the top ten books I have ever read. This excerpt below comes after some American soldiers have died needlessly in a... Continue Reading →
Juggling log #02 – Day 5/64
Some progress to report. On practice for 5 ball cascade- now more confident with 3 ball flashes (throwing them so they are all in the air at the same time) also with minimum and maximum dwell time on three ball cascade at 5 height (I am aware these terms mean nothing to normal people. AND... Continue Reading →
Jubloggling #01 – Day 02/64 – juggling, erm, my balls
I hit myself in the testicles with the handle of a juggling club. Got your attention? First up, this isn't some kink (there ARE people, if you read Dan Savage you'll know this, who get off on this). This was accidental and to the level of that uncomfortable laughter just short of tears. Secret men's... Continue Reading →
It isn’t *just* the media. It really isn’t. Monbiot, #climate catastrophe etc.
Whose fault is the mess we are in? Good question, and it's more of a Murder on the Orient Express type thing that some would have you believe. It's also - and this is ironic given how much certain people bang on about systems, and system collapse - about synergies and mutually-reinforcing loops. Very quickly.... Continue Reading →
Checklist for before and after A Big Conference.
Recently I wrote an article (Hudson, 2022) [See link here - should get you through to it until November 2nd 2022]. Someone kindly got in touch and asked if there were an accompanying checklist. There wasn’t, but there is now. Or rather, there’s my version – take this below and make your own. On checklists... Continue Reading →
Upcoming event: Who unburied CCS in the UK? How?
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1572487907440476160 On November 25th 2015, then-Chancellor George Osborne did something environmentalists can only dream of - he properly enraged the carbon capture and storage lobby. How? He killed off a £1bn competition for 2 CCS projects. Was this the end for CCS? It sure looked like it could be. But exactly 3 years later, the... Continue Reading →
How the power plays – of radio stations, compulsory mourning and seeing the water we are swimming in.
2022 09 09 0930 hours mobile from gym to house having listened to Absolute Radio playing maudlin wrist-slasher music and hushed announcements. Now this is a commercial station but clearly they've taken a lead and there is a bunch of "approved music" you can play at times like these. And it's moments like these you... Continue Reading →
