Is #climate really a “comms issue”? Really? Srsly?
There's another new report out, this time based on a survey of 2000 adults (1) that tacitly pins the blame for climate inertia on various forms of 'denial' and delayism. You can read about it on the...
View ArticleDancing around the issue – of metaphors of hope(lessness)
We think in metaphors (or I do and people around me seem to), but those metaphors can take us to bad places and (therefore) need to be interrogated, and challenged. So, as the old study showed, if you...
View ArticleLooting the Ivory Tower: of #climate targets
I made another "Looting the Ivory Tower" video. I intend to make a bunch more. Suggestions welcome. https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1624331409799237632
View ArticleManchester Labour’s utter naked contempt for democracy, part 94 (thousand).
So, Manchester City Council has 96 Councillors. 91 belong to Labour, and a more craven bunch of neoliberal stooges you are unlikely to find this side of the Conservative party. The City Council has an...
View ArticleLooting the Ivory Tower: “Intersectionality & #Climate Justice: A call for...
I have a template now, and a rhythm that works for me. Here's the latest. Tell me what you think, how they could be improved (highlighting words in the quotes when I am reading aloud would be one...
View ArticleDr Juggles and the Energy Quadrilemma
Using juggling as a metaphor for dealing not only with the energy "trilemma" - of security of supply, price and climate change, but the energy quadrilemma - all the other environmental problems too......
View ArticleVideo: Neologism of the day –“Decruitment”
I have made up a bunch of words (smugosphere, emotacycle, egofodder etc) to try to label phenomena that are easily missed if you don't have the vocabulary (I missed them for decades, until the penny...
View Article#DrJuggles and… climate science
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1629491958056984577 This video is rougher than a badger's arse. Please help add to this list of what I need a) a microphone for decent sound quality b) the...
View ArticleLooting the Ivory Tower: on the plausibility of keeping warming to 1.5 degrees
"The plausibility of a 1.5°C limit to global warming Social drivers and physical processes" https://youtu.be/YRiE-ZQtYpk It's a report by some folks in Hamburg. You can read the report here...
View ArticleSpoof newspaper in the aftermath of Climate Camp (2006)- “Socialist Lurker”
So, there was a trend in the late 1990s and early 2000s for activists to do spoof newspapers - Metro, Evening Standard, Manchester Evening News, Financial Times. These varied in wit and skill, and...
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