I recently found myself in a part of Mississauga, Ontario (a bedroom community of Toronto), in which more than 90% of the visible landscape (excepting the sky) appeared to consist of concrete, in the form of pavement, asphalt, buildings, and such. The remaining 5-10% — rows of evenly spaced short trees, shrubs, a few patches of […]
Posts Tagged ‘climate change’
Fort McMurray as fictive image
Posted in Anthropocene, ImageNation, tagged Anthropocene, climate change, climate denialism, climate science, environmental communication, fact, Latour, mediation, rhetoric, science studies on May 9, 2016 | 5 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, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, climate change, 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:
Post-Paris thoughts: The beginning of the end?
Posted in Anthropocene, Politics, tagged carbon capitalism, climate change, climate justice, COP21, fossil fuel era, international agreements, Paris climate summit on December 13, 2015 | 5 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, Politics, tagged Anthropocene, carbon capitalism, climate change, climate justice, 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 […]
What’s happening?
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged Adbusters, Billion People March, climate change, Climate Games, climate justice, 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 Politics, SpiritMatter, tagged climate change, climate justice, 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 […]
Trembling yet?
Posted in Anthropocene, tagged climate change, ecopolitics, extreme extraction, fracking, gas, oil on April 25, 2015 | 1 Comment »
The New York Times reported this week that “The United States Geological Survey on Thursday released its first comprehensive assessment of the link between thousands of earthquakes and oil and gas operations, identifying and mapping 17 regions where quakes have occurred. […] “By far the hardest-hit state, the report said, is Oklahoma, where earthquakes are hundreds of […]
Anthropocene: Too serious for postmodern games
Posted in Anthropocene, GeoPhilosophy, tagged Anthropocene, climate change, Clive Hamilton, environmental humanities, geology, science on August 18, 2014 | 5 Comments »
The following is a guest post by Clive Hamilton, professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia. It continues the Immanence series “Debating the Anthropocene.” See here, here, and here for previous articles in the series. (And note that some lengthy comments have been added to the previous post by Jan Zalasiewicz, Kieran […]
Still warming
Posted in EcoCulture, tagged climate change, weather on February 23, 2014 | 1 Comment »
For all the complaints many of us in the U.S. heard or voiced about the cold, this past January was the fourth warmest on record, and the 38th consecutive January and 347th consecutive month (almost 29 years) that global temperatures have been above the average for the 20th century. More here and here.
Climate denial’s “dark money” smoke machine
Posted in EcoCulture, Politics, tagged climate change, climate denialism, global warming, science on February 3, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Since I was traveling at the time, I failed to note an interesting story that got covered in the science press about the organizational support and funding behind the climate denial movement. As reported in articles in Scientific American, The Guardian, and elsewhere, a recent peer-reviewed study published in Climatic Science by sociologist Robert Brulle […]
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