On my @our_yesterdays account I did a thread highlighting some of the previous episodes in UK government awareness of the (then long-term) threat of climate change, back in the 1970s. After the litany, came the homily - https://twitter.com/our_yesterdays/status/1548660813950500868 So in this post I will (as briefly as I can, with hyperlinks to other places where... Continue Reading →
Of (#climate) hubs, hope and homilies…
On Wednesday two excellent things took place. One, I bought some juggling kit at the "Oddballs" shope in the lanes in Brighton. https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1547865902464389121 The second is - hopefully - more consequential. I went to Seaford (a town on the coast) to meet up with Becky and Roy, who are neck deep, with others, in organising... Continue Reading →
A supermarket encounter, pondering charities as salesmen for Big Pharma
UPDATE - Aaaand a week later... "Critical elements of leading Alzheimer’s study possibly fraudulent" July 24th, 2022 Alzheimer's Research UK having a stall and a couple of people at the Co-op -a young woman holding up an orange and as her practiced opening gambit asking me what's the connection with Alzheimer's? “Diet, class,” I say... Continue Reading →
Learning about climate change from Boris Johnson
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 →
Silly Malthusian post I will doubtless regret…
I just put this on Twitter, managing - of course - to muck up the numbering on a two-Tweet thread. This will come as a shock to regular readers of this account, but upon wide reading, some (second-hand?) thinking and reflection, I think that, well, our species' "civilisation" is completely FUBARRED. We are delusional maniacal... Continue Reading →
Just Stop Oil – a winning formula?
Watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJ9Ur8WNPE It is fascinating for many reasons. The folks interviewed are right about the coming impacts, and if anything underselling the seriousness of our shituationThe jeering of them from spectators is shared by many MANY people more widely.The comments on the video are disabled (unsurprisingly, but it wouldn't JUST be bots leaving... Continue Reading →
“The Silence” as the enemy – BBC can’t even say “climate change” when talking heatwaves
There is a Doctor Who "monster" called "The Silence". It was a religious order whose " existence is a secret because anyone who sees them immediately forgets about them after looking away, but retains suggestions made to them by the Silence " And it seems to be hard at work at the BBC. Check this report... Continue Reading →
Letter in New Internationalist about movement-building and (lack of) learning… #emotacycle #smugosphere
An edited version of the letter I sent to New internationalist has appeared in the latest issue. I've put the stuff they edited out in bold... I opened the latest issue, with its teasing headline "How We Stop Big Oil" with a sense of trepidation and weariness. I feared it would follow a format I've... Continue Reading →
Film review: Top Gun Maniac, I mean, “Maverick” – the right stuff and the age of “innocence”
Short review of long (130 minutes?) film. This very well-made film is a paean to a "simpler" time, when America was king of the world. The whole thing is drenched in various nostalgias and yearnings for (mythical) pasts that are not actually compatible, but the whole thing is moving at Mach 10 (or 10.3 in... Continue Reading →
Bet on “Business As Usual Activism” to persist until “the end”
A few days ago an article appeared in the Guardian - ‘It cannot be activism as usual’: Kumi Naidoo and Luisa Neubauer on the way forward for climate justice It was a write-up by Bill McKibben, and the subheading was "As the climate movement hits another impasse, activists Luisa Neubauer and Kumi Naidoo explain why... Continue Reading →
