It is a truth almost universally known but rarely, if ever, acknowledged that the strengths and the values of our world are simultaneously its weakness and qualitative (as much as quantitative) poverty. Contemporary communications systems have, for instance, been truly wonderous - they have brought us all closer together through near-instaneous text, voice and video…
UN Climate Action Summit
I was watching a live broadcast of a speech from the UN Climate Action Summit this morning. It was a great speech - very well written, articulate, intelligent, well-timed and well-delivered. For the particular political personality involved, this is undoubtedly a tour de force and, perhaps, a career-pinnacle of statesmanship and Global leadership. There is,…
The Worst-Case Climate Scenario is Occurring
Don't be fooled into a false sense of security by the fact that a worst-case climate apocalypse is intimately terrifying on a scale exceeding any story that humanity ever told itself and is so far beyond our limited experience that we more readily characterise it as myth or fiction. At the scale of disaster we…
Climate Strike: Which Economy?
I observed a characteristically parochial performance from a politician on the morning news today. The topic of the Global Climate Strike was under analysis and the tired old excuses for workers and schoolchildren not attending the rallies and protests were wobbled around with rhetorical ineptitude. An argument was made for the importance of a strong…
Social Reorganisation: Lessons from Physics and Nature
All ordered organisational systems are engaged in an endless competition with (and of) disorder and entropy; it is a race to weave order and patterned persistence from available resources while the other end of the tapestry continuously unravels into largely unrecoverable waste and loss. These organisational systems aspire to a relatively stable or constructively adaptive…
The Challenge of Turning a Profit from Environmental Sustainability
If money is the problem, it is probably also the solution.
Amazon Inferno
The Amazon is burning and with it is going humanity's hope of holding back the worst consequences of Global climate change.
Ecological Logic
A holistic logic is discontinuous, non-linear, enigmatic and - in the face climate change - mandatory.
Bread Crumbs
Going with the flow of natural law and optimally-concise emergent complexity proves to be an intractable enigma for the collective geopolitical neurotic atavism of our world.
The Metaphysics of Climate Change
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is trivial
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.
Climate Change and Global Organisational Neurosis
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
