Pluralistic Ignorance and Climate Change
How can most people support serious action on climate change and yet continue to believe we are in the minority? The answer: pluralistic ignorance.
Degrowth Communism vs. Climate Capitalism
Can degrowth communism solve the climate crisis by ending the growth obsession and distributing resources more fairly? Or should we put our faith in climate capitalism instead?
I’ve forgotten how to blog
How to write a blog post when the world is disintegrating around you.
How Can We Talk About Climate Change? How Can We Not?
Climate change has become such a clear, species-threatening emergency that sometimes it feels strange to talk or write about anything else. Yes, I know, Covid-19. But a pandemic, although immensely destructive, will end eventually. In the longer term, climate change…
Living like it’s 1972
Read an interesting article by George Marshall in the New Internationalist recently about cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80%, a seemingly impossible task until you realise that this would only mean returning to the levels of 1972. I was quite…
Coal funding hits record high
Was astonished by a recent snippet from Christian Aid: Christian Aid has criticised a record high of US$4.4 billion in World Bank funding for coal power stations – a 40-fold increase over the past five years. I can’t believe that…
Population growth and CO2
Just read the January/February issue of the New Internationalist, and was depressed at first to see the title “The population panic” on the cover. But it turned out to be a very well-researched series of articles, showing that a lot…
Home
A YouTube rarity – a professionally shot, high definition, one and a half hour video. It’s about the planet Earth and our place in it. Some quite amazing cinematography, and an important message. If the version on this site doesn’t…
Melting ice shelfs
Do you ever have that experience where something you’ve known for a long time suddenly hits you as it’s never hit you before? That happened to me this weekend. Here’s what set it off. Every few days another huge chunk…