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 →
“When the stresses get tectonic” – brilliant guest post about ‘What is to be done?’
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 →
Seeing things that aren’t there (yet): “The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future”
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 – why are you trashing your brand for pennies?
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 →
So, you have a meeting with your MP…. Solicited advice.
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 →
On “onboarding” and “inclusive spaces.” The Rantomatic-3000 grinds through the gears…
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 →
Marc’s Andon Board
Why? As part of the “How Do We Honour The Soup Throwers?” thing #CollectiveCourage (Trying to put yourself under SOME discipline. Ha. Ha.) Because I need to help other people kick me in the ass so I my start-to-finish-in-a-timely-or-indeed-any-manner ratio improves. What’s an Andon Board anyhow? An Andon board is a visual display that shows... Continue Reading →
Podcast worth your time – “To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We need”
This is good. To Stay in the Fight we must navigate Trauma and Find the Healing We need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5N5nDHr81U Doesn't talk enough about movement organisation pathologies, or the emotacycle or what might - concretely - be done. But surfaces questions and problems in a way that is useful.
The kids are not alright, alright? I blame… the ‘adults’, and ‘the system’ (man)
Another on-the-fly post because I need to be working. Three immediate things Anxiety referrals through the roof for kids - Guardian reports NHS referrals for anxiety in children more than double pre-Covid levels ‘Jaw-dropping’ number of children in England with anxiety shocks even professionals Second - someone who tweets up a necessary storm about climate... Continue Reading →
“COP This!” – Climate activist publication from December 2000 abt COP-6 at The Hague
Just a nice bit of history, from a generation ago.... Can't say we didn't know...
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