Tag: OnlyWords
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Climate situation report: May 2024.
This is fine…. You may have seen some of the news reporting of severe world weather events spread over the past few weeks. When you group them all together the situation is a little more evidentiary to the impending badness of climate change. Remember, this is only mid May. The northern hemisphere is yet to…
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Australia’s continued support for the fossil fuel industry.
Alan Kohler is the finance presenter for Australia’s ABC News. In a recent article for thenewdaily.com.au, he laments our Government’s continued financial support for Australia’s natural gas industry. Support that bitch slaps the face of our climate scientists, a group of experts who are becoming more frustrated with the unwillingness of our leaders to take note…
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Climate change: all aboard the fuckedsville express.
When it comes to the topic of climate change, I am experiencing a deep existential dissonance right now. The mismatch between what I believe (based on my best efforts to critically appraise the scientific evidence) is going to happen, and the deliciously easy path of business as usual that I see all about me. Sure,…
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The 3.5 percent revolution.
“ […] it would behoove us to remember the figure “3.5 percent.” This is the number that Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth came up with in the course of her research into protest strategies as the percentage of a population that must rise up sincerely and nonviolently to bring about a major change to society.…
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