There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
Tag: climate change
Compared to Climate Change, Brexit is small cheese.
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
Is it possible to genuinely acknowledge or effectively disentangle the diverse patterns and consequences of environmental disruption without also simultaneously addressing the core epistemological shortcomings of human cognition, of human nature ?
A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us.
A Self-Extinguishing Flame
It is staggering (and blissfully unacknowledged) the extent to which this world of ours and all of its many anthropomorphic catastrophes are all quite simply occurring within and emanating from these brains between our ears.
Catastrophy Beyond Imagination
Some dawning realities are so vast that we do not even have words, let alone cognitive methods, to characterise or represent them. Climate Change is one of these realities.
Climate Change: Time is Running Out
This is how it starts: the heatwaves, the droughts, the fires, the extreme weather…
Humanity: Havoc or Hope ?
Humanity requires a singular, unifying goal…
The overall underwhelming response to climate change across the globe embodies two streams of behaviour. There exists a resonance between them but they are still relatively distinct categories. The political expediency required to cater for, or survive in, short-term democratic tenures in major carbon emissions-heavy economies. A failure of imagination. On the topic of a […]
11:47:30 – Doomsday Clock
In case you missed it, a couple of days ago the Doomsday Clock was moved 30 seconds closer to Global Armageddon, catastrophe, destruction, devastation – pick your best adjective. The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face that has been maintained since 1947 by the The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‘ Science and Security Board. […]
Fear Factor: Damocles
The central problem in this professional mismatch of politicians with their roles is that playing the game of being elected or rising to positions of power is fundamentally not the same thing as actually playing the game of governing well…