There's a Ridley Scott film (I know I might lose some folks, but stick with it, it will be worth it, I promise (1).) It's called "White Squall" and it came out in 1996. It stars the ever-watchable Jeff Bridges as a sailor and general dude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T6WvayGd64 Anyway (and SPOILERS), there's a storm (a white... Continue Reading →
Cartoon – The Scraped Knee Theory of Climate Activism
Word-y meme. Thanks to my friend Marc Roberts for the as-ever-on-point image. The longer rant... sorry "considered and structured viewpoint" from which the quote below comes is here. To be clear about what I am and am not saying I am NOT saying we don't need policy change, that we do not need to pressure... Continue Reading →
After Baudrillard and Thatcher – we’re in the “soup.” Of images, post-modernism, climate and the world historical defeat of society
It's Saturday night(1), and the people who are supposed to be the experts on this have not got a clue. And they don't even know that they don't have a clue. I at least know that I don't have a clue, which puts me 'ahead' (but on the same burning platform, on the same being-murdered... Continue Reading →
Where does the #climate “movement” Gogh from here? Of sunflowers, dandelions and strategy
My two cents /fifty pence on the Van Gogh/Sunflowers Just Stop Oil Painting Action, the commentary and what next for people who give a damn. tl;dr: everyone is missing the point except me (obvs) and if everyone listened to me, had listened to me, all the world's problems would have been solved ages ago and... 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 →
How/when to criticise environmental activists for being “stupid, unhelpful, lazy.” (spoiler: it’s not when they refuse to join cheerleading for aggro-capitalism)
This is going to be sweary. If you are all Omar Little, and don't like swearing, then look away now. For fucking fuckity fucking fuck's fucking sake. What kind of fucking clueless muppet chides environmentalists when they are lukewarm about some rapacious purveyor of salt, sugar, fat and protein getting in on the fake meat... Continue Reading →
What is to be done? After the Heat goes out of the issue…
On my @our_yesterdays account I did a thread highlighting some of the previous episodes in UK government awareness of the (then long-term) threat of climate change, back in the 1970s. After the litany, came the homily - https://twitter.com/our_yesterdays/status/1548660813950500868 So in this post I will (as briefly as I can, with hyperlinks to other places where... Continue Reading →
Of (#climate) hubs, hope and homilies…
On Wednesday two excellent things took place. One, I bought some juggling kit at the "Oddballs" shope in the lanes in Brighton. https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1547865902464389121 The second is - hopefully - more consequential. I went to Seaford (a town on the coast) to meet up with Becky and Roy, who are neck deep, with others, in organising... Continue Reading →
A supermarket encounter, pondering charities as salesmen for Big Pharma
UPDATE - Aaaand a week later... "Critical elements of leading Alzheimer’s study possibly fraudulent" July 24th, 2022 Alzheimer's Research UK having a stall and a couple of people at the Co-op -a young woman holding up an orange and as her practiced opening gambit asking me what's the connection with Alzheimer's? “Diet, class,” I say... Continue Reading →
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