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“Unite behind the science”. Oh, if only things were so simple. “Science” is an abstraction, it comes into the real world through the scientists who are only human like the rest of us. They are [...]

The bottom line is this: it was 1.3C above pre industrial in 2020 and temperatures rose around .3C between 2010 to 2020, meaning we are heading for 1.5C in the next 5-10 years. Bang! The Paris [...]

One of the nasty things about conventional politics is the idea people can be reduced to a set of views. No room is given for ambiguity or intuition. But of course that’s not how people actually work.

Of course this is “just for starters”. It is inevitable that the global economy will collapse at this level of disruption. Covid has killed 2-3 million, climate breakdown will kill hundreds of [...]

Truth telling is not a vague or abstract thing. It does not have to descend into the bottomless pit of post-modernist relativism. It is a pragmatic identifiable act. It is the speaking and acting [...]

Today the Paris agreement hit the corporate state and the corporate state won. Heathrow expansion is mass murder. The Supreme Court judges are mass murderers. They are traitors. God help them [...]

Infantile hope is not a characteristic of mature adults. Maturity requires an ability to look reality squarely in the face and take action proportionate to the situation. Ecological breakdown is [...]