Hat-tip to John Englart and his excellent article here on the Australian diplomatic position. These are some of the articles that he refers to. Arup, T. 2015. Climate change: Can a wounded Paris deliver for the planet? The Age, 22 November. http://www.theage.com.au/environment/can-a-wounded-paris-deliver-for-the-planet-20151118-gl1pnx.html Englart, J. 2015. Can a leopard change its spots? Australia's schizophrenic #climate diplomacy. Nofibs.com.au 11 November.... Continue Reading →
Learning Curve: Australia and the #Climate Negotiations #Paris
Below is a short briefing, in the format of a Q and A, about the upcoming Paris climate talks, and Australia's role over the last 30 years (and the motivations behind that). There's also a short glossary, a timeline, references and the standard disclaimer. (My basic opinion on Paris, written in February, is here). You... Continue Reading →
The Prospects for Paris – not good. #climate #debacle
The "Earth Negotiations Bulletin," the best summary of the climate talks, has this (in part) to say about the last official meeting before the up-coming Paris talks; “Leaving [the last UNFCCC meeting before the Paris conference, held in October in Bonn], many delegates concurred with Laurence Tubiana, who spoke for the incoming COP 21 Presidency,... Continue Reading →
The Martian – From Whitey on the Moon to Whatney on the Mars….
In July 1969 Richard Nixon didn’t give a speech. It would have gone, in part, like this: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their... Continue Reading →
#climate and #Australia, or, “The paranoid style in… Australian politics”
I ripped the title off from here. My simple point is that the recent hilarity/dismay/shrugging caused by Maurice Newman (Prime Minister Abbott's chief business advisor) is not a new 'meme,' as the young people say. Lisa Cox of the Sydney Morning Herald starts her 8th May 2015 story as follows - Climate change is a... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the industry
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady: Phase 5, the activists (2 letters!!)
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
DILC and the ProblemLady; Phase 4, the state
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here's a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
talktalk is jokejoke – phoned me back to hassle me?!
Lord give me strength. Talktalk is one of these useless companies that sells TV broadband, mobile and phone. I am sure they massively underpay their sales drones. And probably overpay their advertising agency. And their directors, of course. I simply phoned up to ask them to tell them to stop wasting their money and my... Continue Reading →
DILC and the Problem Lady; Phase 3, the State
The Dialectic Issue LifeCycle Model (DILC) is a very cool heuristic for thinking about how some societal problems become issues, what industry does when the problems climb the political agenda and how the issues are (or aren’t) ‘resolved’. Here’s a video starring its progenitors. The DILC has five phases, and looks at three categories of actors in... Continue Reading →
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