Thursday 30th January found me in Glossop, catching up with an old (in every sense) friend. And then being one of the old white men in front a sizeable audience. I enjoyed myself, not (I hope) at the expense of 30 people, but in collaboration with them The event was the latest Curiosity Club in... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
Yesterday I put up a post on Blue Sky that was a quote (generated by Google Translate and then tidied) from a recent article, in German, about why the "climate movement" is on its arse. The quote did "well". It's this "I am convinced that the decline and numerical implosion of the climate movement is... Continue Reading →
Short post - supposed to be decluttering my pigsty of a study [Take This(1) Seriously, dammit, Marc]. Yesterday some "elders" put out a letter about how the COP process was no longer (sic) fit for purpose and had lost its way blah blah blah. Shoot me now. I had a reaction that I suspect is... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago Australian novelist Tim Winton wrote a really provocative piece called Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread, which I would strongly recommend. I wrote a response called Winton, Fanon and what is to be done: On climate, capture, Cesaire…, which got... Continue Reading →
A Looting the Ivory Tower on Sovacool, B. 2024. The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future. Nature Reviews Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00774-5 Not all academic work is self-serving word-spinning helpfully quarantined behind paywalls and verbiage walls. I wouldn’t want to hazard a percentage, and it varies from a) field to field and b) taste to... Continue Reading →
JSO is now an official nominee for the most cringe and WTAF email of 2024. Why? Just WHY? Just Stop Oil is a divisive organisation. They’re cool with that. Some lean into it, for good and baddish reasons. Glueing yourself to things, blocking oil refineries, blocking roads and - most notoriously of all - throwing... Continue Reading →
Solicited advice sheet Author: Marc Hudson Date 29 Sept 2024 Situation Members of [group] have a face-to-face (and online?) meeting with the newly elected Labour MP for the area on [date] They have pre-sent [x] questions of information [xxxx] has approached me (Marc Hudson) for perspectives/advice Mission MH to provide pre-meeting advice/perspectives, primarily via this... Continue Reading →
Deny the passengers, who want to get on. That’s a reference to a fun (ymmv) Elton John song from a few years back (40, to be precise). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB86UzewPdo All will be revealed soon, fwiw. This post comes from a prompt, nudge, suggestion from someone. In response to an old Conversation article under the title “We’ve... Continue Reading →
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