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Despair as the “suicide of the imagination”
Hat-tip to Sam (not Smith) To view our times as decadent and dangerous, to mistrust the government, to imagine that those in power as not concerned with our best interests is not paranoid but perceptive; to be depressed, angry or … Continue reading
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Normalcy bias; completely unrelated to #climate change
From the Financial Times March 3rd/4th 2012 For David Alexander, a professor and specialist in disaster management who has tracked the case of the Costa Concordia, the captain appears to have succumbed to “normalcy bias”, where disbelief and overconfidence obscure … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive Humility, normalcy bias
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Plenty more fish not in the sea
This is very very interesting and depressing stuff. http://www.hogsalt.com/wp-hogsalt/2013/04/the-stades-last-stand/ The tl;dr. We trash the joint. Then invent new technologies to trash new joints. See also Marvin Harris’ “Cannibals and Kings“. And Charles Tilly’s “Coercion, Capital and European States 990 to … Continue reading
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Roger Ebert (RIP) on #climate change and the new seasons…
“It seems possible that their policies will lead to a different kind of seasonal calendar. Instead of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, this new generation will know Blizzard, Flood, Heat and Fire. Month follows month as the seasons tear themselves … Continue reading
Entering the bargaining phase – “guided transition” #climate #kublerross #wearetoast
There’s this tiny moment in film The Bourne Ultimatum that keeps echoing in my head. Bourne has met up with a journalist (played by Paddy Considine). He gets vital information. The journalist is a bit clueless. Bourne says “You have … Continue reading
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Tagged bourne, climate, disasturbation, keeling curve, Seventh Seal
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Enlightenment, endarkenment, Private Eye and the end o’ the world
Two quotes- one from Private Eye, one from the Proceedings of the Royal Society B (as you do). Alas, he is a journalist, not a scientists or a philosopher king, and thus takes the journalist’s now standard route to enlightenment, … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, apocalypse, competence
Tagged AIDS, Anne Ehrlich, climate change, endarkenment, enlightenment, Malcolm Gladwell, Paul Ehrlich, Private Eye
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China crisis – 38% reduction in food production at 2C temp rise #climate #china #food #doomed
Hat-tip to Sam. Emphasis added.
The media, Iraq and the melting Arctic
Ten years on from the murderous and illegal invasion of Iraq, and none of the perpetrators have been punished. Cheney, Bush, Blair, Howard etc. all walk free. And now, in one of those cheap-to-produce retrospective (Ctrl C + V on … Continue reading
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To be or not to be? Hitler, Mel Brooks, Leonard Cohen and the extinction of the species.
Of course, next time that particular strand of Western civilisation comes around again, we won’t have the farm-boys of Kansas and – more importantly – the guts of the kids from the Urals – to defeat the monster. Meh, whatever. … Continue reading
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Arcing over the Arctic – nuclear winters and carbon summers and fear. Lots of fear.
When I was twelve I knew that it would take 25 minutes for intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying nuclear warheads to travel from their silos in Kansas or the Urals to their targets – Washington, New York, Moscow, Warsaw. They would … Continue reading
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Tagged pending ecological debacle
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