This is a (light) expansion of this Twitter thread, about an article on the Guardian website by one of their environment reporters, Fiona Harvey. Ms Harvey is anticipating (plausibly - tomorrow we shall see if she is right) that the latest Working Group 3 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will sink without... Continue Reading →
I saw this below on the Grauniad website today and tweeted that 2022 is gonna be hella interesting. I have MUCH else to be getting on with (Sarah, if you're reading this I have got about 3/4 of the crap out of the attic). But I want to throw an initial schema and a set... Continue Reading →
is that we learn nothing from history. That's not mine, btw - I filched it from Georgie Hegel. Am thinking at the moment about one of my favourite themes - how little we (e.g. me) learn from our mistakes, how resistant we (e.g. me) can be to robust and would-be-if-we-took-it helpful feedback (whether that is... Continue Reading →
Reading a borrowed copy of Oliver Burkeman's "Four Thousand Weeks" (self-help/philosophy with added Heidegger and also good stuff), I am thinking of Samuel Johnson's wonderful essay "What Have Ye Done?" If you haven't read it already, you're in for a treat. If you have read it, read it again - there's some serious wisdom in... Continue Reading →
I am to be an expert interviewee (I know, I know, I laughed too) in a project about climate change and "getting to net zero" barriers opportunities, blah blah. And reading over the project info they sent, and the sets of things I am supposed to pick as barriers, it occurs to me that this... Continue Reading →
When will the next Greta Thunberg hit the stage? I know I am a stuck record, but (I think) this is important. a)"We" are leaving/have left a period where climate change was relatively high up the political agenda b) We are leaving/have left a period where small (but non-trivial) numbers of people were willing to... Continue Reading →
Read this and weep. Since long before that delayed "last chance to save the world" climate conference in Glasgow finally happened (see here and here and here) I predicted that in the aftermath, climate change was gonna be far down almost everyone's list. You don't need to be freaking Nostradamus, you just need to know... Continue Reading →
I have a long-standing fascination with how "nature" gets invoked, how the idea is mobilised to defend whatever people want to defend. First really really started thinking about this (I think) after reading the following quote by Julian Rathbone, from his novel "Zdt" Wrong. Nature in the Middle Ages was a hierarchy, a chain of... Continue Reading →
Affecting war-time novel by a master of straightforward story-telling. Last night Dr Wifey and I watched Sicario again. It is a brutal, cynical, violent tale, directed by Dennis Villeneuve, with great everything (performances, sound, cinematography). There's not a lot of hugging and learning. I knew this at the outset, but still found myself looking for... Continue Reading →
Last week I gave a seminar as part of the Sussex Energy Group’s seminar series. This was, for me, a Big Deal, because the Sussex Energy Group is a very cool collection of scholars, mostly from the Science Policy Research Unit but also from University of Sussex (the clue is in the name) more broadly.... Continue Reading →
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