You read it here first. Or second, if you get the FT Weekend and say the advert in "FT Money" on August 27th. (It may be one they have been running for a while). Got your sickbag ready? No, seriously, this is your first and last trigger warning. I could insert something here about how... Continue Reading →
Someone pointed me at a reddit group where people swap links about the pending ecological debacle (no longer pending, actually, has solidly arrived). In it was this heart-breaker of a comment, entirely accurate. https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/wb41zu/comment/ii6gczm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 "We are solidly on the RCP 8 path and I have to work hard to not freak out about it often.... Continue Reading →
I read this tweet. https://twitter.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1557288961135067137 And I think about how worse-than-useless our education system and media systems are (for lots of reasons, some of them probably pretty intractable, not that we ever really tried to tract them). And how we are not joining the dots between the energy and food crises and just how bad... Continue Reading →
I just put up a post on "All Our Yesterdays" about beer goggles and "oil goggles." A few things a) a good friend pointed to the wording that would allow people to reasonably infer sexism/misogyny (I used the term "arm-chewer" - I had worded things to be equal opportunity offensive, but the term itself skews... Continue Reading →
I've just read Melissa Benn's excellent novel of "New Labour" - "One of Us" (more soon). That - combined with Rishi Sunak's response in the "leadership" "debate" to what he would do about climate change (recycling, wasting less, innovation) has got me to thinking about the question of, well, how our "leaders" are so catastrophically... Continue Reading →
Some people like to make it all very VERY complicated (whether they know that is what they are doing or not). And you can do that. You can make climate change and what we are supposed to do about it so fantastically complicated that you scare off most potential allies and actors. You can make... Continue Reading →
"We" need to do x. "We" need to do y. "We" need to do z, bell the cat, save the world. Who is this "we" you speak of, white man? That's my problem. Any time I hear a sentence with the word "we" in it about how "we" just need to get the right technology-support... Continue Reading →
One thing people don't get about climate change is just how quickly the blanket of C02 is thickening because of our emissions. Sure, there's that Al Gore on his elevator stunt in the film "An Inconvenient Truth." And there's this that shows we are thickening the blanket more and more quickly (because we are burning... Continue Reading →
"CARDIAC" - geddit? Not my most forced backronym ever, but close. So, why do we get stuck in describing problems - like, I dunno, the imminent collapse of the ecosystems that make human civilisation possible, to choose an example entirely at random - endlessly, rather talking about the solutions? Blah blah, yes, belling the cat.... Continue Reading →
President Lincoln was assassinated in early 1865, while watching a play. His wife was with him at the time. It led to the macabre joke in the title above, which "means" roughly "yes, let's pretend not to talk about the horrific things that we both know have happened, and let's make idle chitchat." Or that's... Continue Reading →
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