In the parallel universe where good news remains possible… A team or 70 researchers from 22 countries and led by Paul Hawken has produced a very interesting analysis of potential climate change solutions. The analysis, released last month as a book called Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, “maps, measures, models, and describes the […]
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Mapping climate change solutions
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, tagged agency, climate solutions, Paul Hawken on May 12, 2017 | 3 Comments »
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in Climate change, Visual culture, tagged Anthropocene, climate denialism, climate science, environmental communication, fact, Latour, mediation, rhetoric, science studies on May 9, 2016 | 7 Comments »
With reality like this, who needs fiction? It’s from Fort McMurray, last week. Harrowing. While the impact of such images is undeniable, the debate over whether and how they are related to climate change is a debate the rest of us should not shy away from.
Wark on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, geopolitics, refugee crisis, Wark on May 7, 2016 | 2 Comments »
McKenzie Wark has written a very provocative piece on the geopolitics of the Anthropocene, or what he calls “The Geopolitics of Hibernation.” A quote:
Following the (in)action in Paris, updated
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged 350.org, ClimateJustice, COP21, Paris climate summit, UN climate change conferences on December 15, 2015 | 5 Comments »
This article has been revised since it was first posted. It consists of a list of useful sources providing ongoing coverage of, and initial post-conference reactions to, the COP21 conference and mobilizations in response to it. Please suggest any other helpful sources and links in the “Comments.” (Previously suggested links have been added and the comments removed.) Originally published: Dec. […]
Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, COP21, fossil fuel era, international agreements, Paris climate summit on December 13, 2015 | 7 Comments »
The Paris climate talks were successful in that they resulted in an agreement that is both better than nothing and better than most of us expected. They were a failure in that even if they are followed to the letter — and there’s no provision for enforcing whether anyone follows them or not — they would […]
Climate Justice for dummies
Posted in Anthropocene, Climate change, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, carbon capitalism, ClimateJustice, environmental justice on December 9, 2015 | 1 Comment »
Here’s how I would explain the concept of Climate Justice in four easy steps: The wealthiest 1% emit 2500 times more greenhouse gases than the poorest 1%. Those greenhouse gases are in the process of changing the Earth’s climate to render it uninhabitable for the kind of mix of human & nonhuman species that exists […]
To bother (with protest), or not?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged COP21, global climate change, Paris climate summit, protest, Srnicek and Williams on December 4, 2015 | 2 Comments »
Writing in The Independent, “Left accelerationists” Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek make the case that we need not bother protesting the Paris climate summit. There are better things to do than that. They argue, first, that the negotiators won’t change anything under pressure, and probably won’t even notice that pressure coming from the streets. (Especially […]
The climate connection
Posted in Climate change, Politics, tagged climate culture, Climate Games, ClimateJustice, Paris climate summit, terrorism, UN Climate Summit on November 19, 2015 | 1 Comment »
How connected are the recent Paris attacks with the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 21 (Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change)? At first glance, the targeting of Paris for ISIS’s act of war on civilian populations would seem to be motivated by other things: France’s role in […]
What’s happening?
Posted in Climate change, Eco-culture, Politics, tagged Adbusters, Billion People March, Climate Games, ClimateJustice, COP 21, Paris climate summit on November 9, 2015 | 2 Comments »
The beginning of COP 21, the UN Conference on Climate Change, is three weeks away. So what else is happening, you ask? 1) The Campaign Against Climate Change‘s Time to Act! campaign, 350.org, Reclaim Power, and various other formations are preparing actions around the world on the eve of the summit (November 28-29) and a huge demonstration in Paris […]
The many ecologies of Laudato Si
Posted in Climate change, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged ClimateJustice, Papal encyclical, Pope Francis, religion and ecology on June 18, 2015 | 9 Comments »
Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical “On Care for Our Common Home,” is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts’ content. As the most far-reaching statement by the single largest (relatively united) religious denomination on the planet, it is likely to have an immense impact on global conversations around […]
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