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Seeing things that aren’t there (yet): “The promise and peril of...
A Looting the Ivory Tower on Sovacool, B. 2024. The promise and peril of sociotechnical visions of the future. Nature Reviews Physics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-024-00774-5 Not all academic...
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“When the stresses get tectonic”– brilliant guest post about ‘What is to be...
A couple of weeks ago Australian novelist Tim Winton wrote a really provocative piece called Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread,...
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Salvation rituals, the US election and what next: “The last records from...
Talking to a super smart friend (1) last night about the State of The World, we got onto the fun and games to be had before, during and after November 5 (the US ‘elections’). I found myself saying...
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Battles between technologies, defensive efforts go wrong, are irrelevant. –...
Twitter is going to change the blocking function So people you blocked can see what you are posting. Then they can set up new accounts and spam you/troll you whatever. Musk-ovites will defend it blah...
View ArticleLetter to the Guardian abt CCS and George Monbiot (unpublished)
Last week George Monbiot had an article in the Guardian on Carbon Capture and Storage, which he isn’t a fan of (for entirely justifiable and well-backed up reasons). The same day I sent in this letter...
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Moorhens, Disney and Hyenas
[Sobs] My illusions shattered. I’ve just seen two moorhens having a go at each other over food They were next to the towpath, on the grass. (yes, crappy photo – cameraphone, poor light etc) I was able...
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Tom Lehrer as the first great song-writer of the Anthropocene
The 37 or so songs of American satirist Tom Lehrer (1928- ) should all be part of the vocabulary of, well, everyone. They are dirty (Smut, I’m a market they can’t glut), sick (I hold your hand in...
View ArticleDoomer dirges: “No, we ain’t gonna make it”
This post, about Tom Lehrer, might help explain where I am coming from. In 1965 Tom Leher said that if we were going to get any songs about World War 3 “we’d better start writing them now.” Ditto for...
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Everyone gets fat and old, the moorhen showed me…
Everyone gets fat and old, says someone fat and old, if they’re lucky. I just saw a juvenile moorhen do proper flying – like a proper bird. (I was feeding its mum or dad, and it wanted in on the...
View ArticleThe Intellectual Tradition (Chomsky interviewed by Pilger in 1992)
From a documentary broadcast on BBC2 on November 25 1992. PILGER: And yet you’re often described as an extremist CHOMSKY: Sure. I am an extremist. Because a ‘moderate’ is anyone who supports western...
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