(Blog posts about academic articles and what value they might have for activists.) Article Moser SC. The work after “It's too late” (to prevent dangerous climate change). WIREs Climate Change. 2020;11:e606. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.606 The TL;DR If you have read much on social and psychological responses to climate change you will have come across the work of... Continue Reading →
Crikey I needed that. After Thursday's shitshow (albeit revealed in the company of friends, which momentarily softened the blow), what happened last night was just perfect. Given that TV Smith is a guy with a 40 year back catalogue of brilliant - perceptive, funny, lyrically astonishing - songs, and with a work ethic that would... Continue Reading →
Right now there's a lot of politicians flapping their meat in Madrid, at the 25th "Conference of the Parties" to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Late next year they will be flapping their meat in Glasgow. It will be the first COP to be held in the UK (though there was 1994's... Continue Reading →
Tell your attendees what it is that they are going to be asked to solve. Tell them that in a preliminary email Or two. Tell them that when they arrive In writing. In big letters. Maybe with some cartoons/graphics. (Perhaps not in rubbish videos with awful sound quality. #justsaying) Respect their intelligence and their time... Continue Reading →
First I will treat you as ego-fodder. You will sit in rows, or in a circle,and you will listen to me drone on and on about my hobby-horse du jour. I don’t care what you know about the topic. I don’t want to take time away from hearing my own voice to hear your perspectives.... Continue Reading →
Hi everyone, there's a lot of us in this room, and the tables aren't really helping. I know it is gonna take a minute, and the "Elf and Safety" types may be upset, but I want to spend one of our precious 57 remaining minutes stacking the tables against the wall and making a circle... Continue Reading →
And you can't talk about it And isn't that a kind of madness To be living by a code of silence When you've really got a lot to say Billy Joel, Code of Silence A while back I went to a “workshop” that I thought would be not very good. Why go then? Purely and... Continue Reading →
I have an article coming out that has come out on The Conversation (yes Sarah, yes Matt, you are both right) that may cause some fur to fly. This post is for readers of that who want/demand to know where I stand. I will keep it brief and try to keep the glibsnark to tolerable levels... Continue Reading →
In 2002 I got some weird-ass bug, probably from having been in Cambodia. I ended up in a lot of pain (probably as much as in my life) and on a hospital gurney. And then they gave me some morphine. Holy mother of God that stuff is the shit. You just... the pain just... you... Continue Reading →
Tl:dr Hard to see radical granular climate action in the UK continuing beyond early 2021 at the latest. But I could be wrong. Firstly the disclaimers: Disclaimer the first: Who the hell knows? Who the hell knows anything anymore? Disclaimer the second: In cosmic scheme of things it doesn’t matter- we are a dead species... Continue Reading →
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