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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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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
Posted in apocalypse, climate, death, fear
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Of futility: allotments, hoses, and leakage
At the allotment yesterday* I got a strong whiff of the futility of it all. This stuff actually happened, pretty much as I recount it below, with merely a soupcon of poetic license. There was a visitor just checking out … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, activism, climate, competence, death, fear, narcissism, natural world
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The Panopticon, the Panspectron – look at Gaza and see how the world will be…
Have just read a fascinating and terrifying academic article called “The Gaza Strip as Panopticon and Panspectron: The Disciplining and Punishing of a Society.” [pdf] It’s by Michael Dahan (PhD) of Sapir College, Israel. The take home is that Gaza … Continue reading
Posted in activism, apocalypse, bureaucracy, climate, death, economics, fear, politics, technoscience
Tagged Deleuze, Michael Dahan, Michel Foucault, panopticon, panspectron, participatory surveillance, surveillance
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Growing up in shadows: nuclear apocalypse segues to the pending ecological debacle
What does it mean to be young now? I have been thinking about this quite a lot of late, in the context of our species seeming to have thrown even its short-term survival in the “too hard” basket. In the … Continue reading
Posted in activism, apocalypse, climate, death, fear, narcissism
Tagged Able Archer, pending ecological debacle
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Things we’d rather talk about – small, “manageable” things…
Over a couple of pints tonight, talking with some friends. Got onto the topic of things we (as societies/species) talk about and things we don’t. Some things – budgets of 100s of millions of quid or whatever – are too … Continue reading
Abba, anomie and apocalypse
The song starts out thus – I was at a party and this fella said to me “Something bad is happening, I’m sure you do agree People care for nothing, no respect for human rights Evil times are coming, we … Continue reading
Posted in activism, apocalypse, climate, death, framing, natural world
Tagged Abba, On and On and On, Transactional Analysis
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Climate of Despair: The past, present and future of the UK climate “movement”
I wrote this for the last issue of a (frankly unlamented) magazine called “Shift.” They’ve put it on their website, with no link to the main page, and no comments box. Which tells you what they think of it, or … Continue reading
“Dynamism and creativity” of the climate movement? “Flourish?!?” Evidence please…
Maybe I am stuck in some parallel universe, because this below does not represent any facts that I saw in the last three (and that’s being generous) years. All I saw was zombie repertoires played out again and again until … Continue reading
Very random burblings about the birth and death of climate camp, aka “Goodbye to all that”
Attention Conservation Notice: I found some sentences about a November 2010 national Climate Camp meeting I went to the first hour or so of. They’d been sitting in a file on my desktop. I have fleshed ‘em out, and here … Continue reading
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Tagged boredom with myself, climate camp, tawdry point-scoring
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