Transformative Adaptation: the path, in this ‘Trump won!?’ world
I write as Trump gives his victory speech. This is a dire dire day for the living planet. Probably on balance the worst day ever.
Writings
Why the Green Party admitting the limits of its power could aid the fight for climate justice
We must confront our success at the general election with a sobering truth: we are still far short of real power at Westminster.
The true power of the Green Party is now: to admit our own powerlessness to ‘save the world’
While pursuing the very best that we can do directly via the ballot box, we need to be readying ourselves to do something else too.
An initial analysis of the presumptive next UK Government’s stance on resilience
Labour’s manifesto is immeasurably weaker than the Greens’ on climate and nature.
The true power of the climate movement is to admit our powerlessness
The most powerful thing the climate movement can do might be to admit defeat.
The Climate Majority Project and the radical flank
Climate Majority Project is riding the radical flank, but radical flank is worth a lot less than it was five years ago.
Emergency action
Could civil disobedience be morally obligatory in a society on a collision course with climate catastrophe?
Phoenix, dodo or butterfly? Three futures for East Anglia
What will East Anglia look like in 2034? Will we still have our green and pleasant land?
The End of the Beginning?
As the climate crisis has escalated, there has been a conspicuous absence of films that mirror the predicament we are faced with. The End We Start From changes that.
Climate realism needs to go mainstream, beginning in universities
Academia is ill-suited to contributing to the epochal question of our time: our wilful destruction of our collective life-support system.
End CoP: Aren’t we all fed up with this vapid, self-congratulatory farce?
Attempts to put a brave face on COP28 won’t wash: the COP’s won’t work, they just make things worse.
This hopeless COP is the most hopeful in years
As it sinks in that the crucial 1.5C temperature goal of the Paris Agreement will certainly be missed, an incredible opportunity for progress emerges.