January 7th 2010
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The extent to which we are capable of empathising with numerous cultural identities is unique to our generation. This ridiculous machine of inter-cultural contact alongside the more human day-to-day exchanges of diversity together make for a formidable narrative of heterogeneity. By that I mean that I can refer my own ...
January 5th 2010
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I just read this article by Ashley Seager about the rise of China and other emerging economies. This is my response.
Dear Ashley,
I read your article with interest. Whilst it is interesting to read a recap of the prevalent theory of capitalist growth as applied to China and the US, I ...
January 5th 2010
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Semi-hypothetical situation:
1. Climate change caused by burning fossil fuels causes the melting of ice caps, which in turn disrupts the gulf stream, the key element of the weather system that makes Northern Europe a temperate climate.
2. Europe suffers plunging tempeartures and burns lots of fossil fuels to keep warm.
3. ...
December 17th 2009
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One of the most common chants heard on climate change protests is the need for 'climate justice now'. This is referred to across the whole spectrum of NGOs, right through to the more grassroots campaigners who have come from across Europe to protest in Copenhagen. It refers to the need ...
December 10th 2009
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There's so much noise coming out of Copenhagen that it's hard to know what to focus on.
Yesterday, Tuvalu put forward a key proposal that called for Copenhagen to have a binding agreement that included large developing country (China and India) cuts, in contrast to the Kyoto approach. This is an ...
December 8th 2009
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Following my attendance last year at COP14 in Poland, I've been following the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate conference closely. On Sunday I'm off to Copenhagen for the final week of negotations and in advance of that, I'm going to get some of my thoughts down here.
The big news on ...
November 23rd 2009
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This is the first post in my new blog. The other stuff you see below (i.e. everything that appears before today's date) is legacy stuff from other blogs I started and then abandoned, such as dealingwiththeglobalcrisis.com...
I decided it was silly to (a) restrict myself to particular subject-matter or (b) attempt ...
November 11th 2009
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OK kids this is the moment you've all been waiting for. There are children being hushed by their parents, last minute urinations tinkling in the toilet, and minds alert with vivid anticipation... that's right, I am writing the first post on my new blog.
Basically the deal is this: I like ...
There's an interesting set of ideas emerging in response to the economic crisis and the inadequate response that we're seeing to it. The only coherent and easily-referencable nascent 'movement' that I've been able to identify from amongst the numerous voices clamouring for attention, is called 'Collapsonomics'.
The idea is defined as ...
Soon I'm going to write something about what the G20 have come up with, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
It's pretty similar in terms of clarifying the situation as the presentation I linked to in my first ...
