Category: Climate change
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Fossilised politics
What I’ve found over the last few years, particularly as I’ve engaged with the lives of environmental activists through the now concluding OHEM project is that the continuing arch of the twenty-first century’s history will be inseparable from the politics of energy; in the broadest sense of the word. How…
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Hope, fractured
In the scattered debris of our contemporaneous existence in this most heinous chthulucene, we are too often fractured asunder. The planet, spinning like a forgotten top on the edge of ruin, its centrifugal force pushes us to despair. From the quasar-flecked heavens to the quarks evading detection in our nuclei,…
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Juxtaposition in the Capitalocene
One of the fundamental epistemological tenants of the Capitalocene can be analysed via a rather old-fashioned motif: a geographical, specifically, a scalar narrative. That is because our current conjuncture compels us to confront a stark and often discordant juxtaposition: one that chaotically zooms from the cosmological, the planetary, the national,…
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Just Stop Oil at the Snooker
Did you see this protest last night by Just Stop Oil at the Snooker? If not, here is the BBC coverage, or watch below. You probably didn’t see it because you don’t watch snooker, but I do, I love it. And listening to the players & commentators, and reading social…
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Planetary Safe Mode? Turning Lockdowns into a tool to fight Climate Change
The pandemic that currently grips our world has been many countries go into unprecedented lockdowns multiple times. Characterised by stay at home instructions, education going online, the closure of non-essential businesses; they have caused misery for millions. However, in some parts of the world they have had unintended benefits such…
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