Never mind that the sum-total of all available evidence is so profound that the only plausible chance anyone has of not believing that Climate Change is upon us is to either be so naive or so maliciously ignorant that it is impossible to admit this fact into their personal conceptual vocabulary and interpretive framework of […]
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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, […]
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 […]
As you get older it seems that your options diminish, quite literally and as entropy takes hold the vast numbers of disordered states that you might end up in become less improbable, more certain. It is not so much a matter of age as it is of experience and an aggregate burden of negotiating the […]
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.
There are always things beyond the intelligible boundaries of the cognitive logic and cultural grammars within which we live.
Global organisational neuroses as inhibiting factor in addressing climate change?
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.
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…