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Comment on climate
Featured
- Playing politics whilst Rome burns: a response to the EU's 'business as usual' climate change law
- Whilst in many respects I welcome the headline framing of the Government's “net-zero” proposal, sift amongst the detail and all is far from rosy
- UK Climate Minister undermines the Committee on Climate Change & pulls the rug on the 1.5°C report
- Personal reflections on the latest Bonn-Fiji climate meeting (COP23) - November 2017
- Film review of Leonardo DiCaprio's Before the Flood
- Individual or collective responsibility? A false dichotomy
- Rambling thoughts on 1.5 Celsius, economic growth and academic freedom
- The Paris Agreement ... how techno-utopias mask the need for deep political & economic change
- Are climbers & outdoor types custodians of the countryside or simply smash & grab looters?
- Climate modellers are self-censoring their scenarios to conform to the dominant political paradigm
Media
- Debate with environmental business advisor on flying, emissions & leading by example
- Weak EU decarbonisation target risks locking in dangerous climate change
- Scientists suggest UN climate talks are going backwards & risk 4°C of warming
- Holding to 2°C is an issue of equity; the wealthy must change their ways
- Article on climate science, carbon budgets and fear of speaking out
Written
- A Paris-compliant energy-only carbon budget for the EU27
- Brief response to the UK Government’s “net-zero” proposal
- Capricious foes, Big Sister & high-carbon plutocrats: irreverent musings from Katowice’s COP24
- Trump – the climate’s secret champion?
- Will Poland’s COP24 Presidency and its addiction to coal undermine ambitious global climate goals?
@EnlivenmentNow @AarneGranlund @steviedubyu @KevinClimate @JasonBordoff I don't want to write a thread each time I write "economic growth" to give my 2c worth & my views. I was basically cut & pasting from someones article (I had to shorten for Twitter length).
Think of the third bullet as "decarbonising while returning to a reasonable life"
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I wonder how much more persuasive the argument for systemic change would be if it were made by people who had stopped flying.
In truth the term "individual action" covers a whole host of behaviors, from destructive "green consumerism" to pointless plastic recycling, to contagious early adoption (of solar power, eg), to public signaling of an emergency by elites and leaders in a field. So... https://t.co/GUKkgLBjWc