Climate, AI, plastics: we are either tipping or are blundering blindly towards tipping into irreversible damage from our own activities. As well, nuclear weapons lurk, ready to kill off most of who or what might be left. Either we pay attention to why we are engaging in this collective insanity, and act on it, or we… Read More Tipping into the approaching dark age
What are the five most precious things in my life? [Published by Pearls & Irritations 21 Dec.] I have wondered often lately what might catch the attention of those who are busy despoiling our planet, and cause them to reflect on what they are destroying, and whether that matters to them. What if they asked… Read More Barack Obama wants us to care about the oceans
The fossil fuel corporations and their enablers treat us with complete contempt. This is not very polite to say, I know, but they spit in our faces and laugh. [Published at Pearls & Irritations 19 Nov.] The great majority of people around the world want more serious efforts to stop global warming. The International Energy… Read More They spit in our faces
Your actions are inconsistent with the weight of scientific advice and with the wishes of the majority of voters. Do you understand that we are now at serious and imminent risk of tipping irreversibly into a hellish future?… Read More Open Letter to the Prime Minister of Australia
The weather is freakish, the climate is freakish and politics is, well, freakish. They have pushed me to where my head tells me the chance to pull ourselves out of the fire is about gone. But it is not as simple as slipping into despair and apathy, though that would be easier in some ways.… Read More Letting go of rational hope
Without a large and rapid change in politics, not much in evidence, it now seems unlikely we can avoid climate apocalypse. [Published by Pearls & Irritations, 16 Dec 23.] The COP28 conference in Dubai on (allegedly) reducing greenhouse gas emissions has come and gone with the usual proclamations of triumph. Wow, this time they actually… Read More COP out: apocalypse next
The neoliberal, social engineering experiment in privatisation has been an economic failure and a social disaster. Underpaid, insecure, fearful people can become desperate. They can look for someone to blame, and someone to save them.… Read More What if Labor has still got it all wrong?
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