Time to Pivot?
It would appear NZ and much of the rest of the world has made a first rather coincidental step on the AGW front.
AGW
Can we have a future, with capitalism?
The concentration of wealth and power insufficiently regulated capitalism has caused, now works against the survival of human civilisation. With the wealthy opposing any attempts to limit the damage which affects their wealth.
No sense, nonsense and a dearth of common sense.
We wouldn’t tie a rope to a heavy load and then push on the rope with the expectation of achieving anything, right? So why is the Guardian’s Environment Editor entreating that we do just that? Is he merely stupid? Or is there something more cynical at play?
Auckland’s got a Bridge.
London’s bridges were closing down.
Climate Action Heating Up.
Yet another front opening up in the demand for action on global warming…
In Short…
A post puzzling over our collective state of mind in the face of incredible danger and suggesting the only course of action we can take. Covering our eyes and blocking our ears isn’t it.
Progress.
I don’t pay much attention to news channels these days, and realise this will have been all over the place in the shape of headlines and lead stories. So I’m sorry for simply echoing that which is already being amplified, but hey…
Steaming cow poo.
Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth according to a Guardian headline.
Yeah. No it’s not.
A Great Business Opportunity
410 ppm. And rising.
Ice
There’s something about Antarctica…
Bio-fuels.
Biofuels and fossil. The difference?
Let’s stop kidding ourselves.
The “Adapting to Climate Change in NZ” report.
4 just became the new 2.
Someone just did something sensible, and it’s frightening.
Up the spout, round the bend and down the tubes.
It’s no longer really working out (kicking the AGW can down the road), but we seem to be hooked into a peculiar form of madness even as everything appears to be coming apart at the seams. It’s beyond me…
NZ Government: Stand with the Pacific at COP23
Petitions and links to further info on COP23.
Good News!
May figures just out…
The Mother Budget
There are budgets and there are budgets. And for all the presence or absence of bright ideas, there’s a budget that threatens to subsume all others…
Universal Basic Income Experiment
Income in a world of climate change.
Pope Francis on Climate Change
No beating about the bush.
North of 2
The international energy agency’s (IEA) view on climate change is that we are “on track for a 3.5°C rise by 2040” (i.e. 4.2°C relative to pre-industrial).
Fatih Birol – IEA chief economist said (3 years ago)
When I look at this data, the trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius, which would have devastating consequences for the planet….we have 5 years to change the energy system – or have it changed
Positive Things
Change becomes embedded when it emanates from and across many quarters and traditions.
State of Nations
This post isn’t a ‘contrast and compare’ piece on the policy announcements of National, the Greens and Labour. Enough to say that National are pursuing privatisation while both Labour and Green are at least trying to do good things.
Shame about the reality of the bigger picture then.
The Carbon or the Swag?
So many choices! What’s a body to do?