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Our "leaders" are going to keep making empty promises. It makes them feel good. It gets the activists to act like zombie kittens. If you want to have some self-respect and perhaps make a difference (actual facts may vary), then find a functioning group that cares about your skills and knowledge - what you have, what you want. One useful group might be www.climateemergencymanchester.net - you can email them on contact@climateemergencymanchester.net-
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Feeding the trolls – of XR, ad hominem abuse and the Kool Aid
So, as I predicted, and feared, the blog post I wrote about the atrocity of Extinction Rebelllion “strategy” “tour” was ignored in its content and instead drew the predictable ire of people who are desperate to believe that they, after … Continue reading
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Event: Thurs 24th Feb 7.30pm – What can today’s #climate activists learn from the destruction of Abbey Pond?
On February 24th 1994 the bailiffs and bulldozers moved in. A two-week occupation camp, called “The Republic of Newtonia” had slowed but not stopped the Council and the Science Park. Abbey Pond, a much-loved site of birds, insects, frogs and … Continue reading
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“If we don’t tend to our relationships with each other, this isn’t going to work” or DIGGERS!
tl:dr Almost 40 people were treated as ego-fodder by an organisation that is deader than it realises. Opportunities for connection and innovation were, of course, missed. We’re toast Diggers? Diggers, alluding to Gerry Winstanley, is a retronym for “Deluded Inane … Continue reading
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The month ahead, internationally, national and locally for #climate
Manchester Climate Monthly is largely in hibernation, but like a grizzling and grisy, grizzly bear it will occasionally poke its head out of its mancave. It did so yesterday to point out that the recent Climate Emergency UK report about … Continue reading
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Of Climate Emergency declarations, plans, DELIVERY and activism
tl:dr – why do activists with good intentions think that giving liars and greenwashers an open goal is lia good idea? The truth is, we the “climate community” have been terrible at our self-appointed jobs. Climate change has been an … Continue reading
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Bluffer’s guide to #climate (local, national, international) for 2022…
tl:dr – if we don’t do things differently, we will probably get the same results (1). We probably, for well understood reasons (see “smugosphere,” emotacycles, abeyance) will not. But keep your eyes open and you’ll have a good view of … Continue reading
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New paper – MCFly (2021) ““Eco-Socialism Without Guarantees” Journal of Studies, Vol 1, 1
“Eco-Socialism Without Guarantees” Dr M. MCFly (independent scholar) Abstract: We’re toast. That has been clear for quite some time. Who gets to count as “we” is of course of for debate, and how the toast-i-ness came to be “a thing” … Continue reading
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Advertising, Climate Emergencies and @ManCityCouncil flogging the pavements to capitalists.
In July 2019 Manchester City Council declared a climate emergency, forced into it by local activists and FOMO – other big cities in the UK had already done so. Everything was going to change, oh yes. Recently, Manchester City Council … Continue reading
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Manchester City Council forced to admit no progress on “journey” to low carbon asphalt (more to follow)
Manchester City Council’s Highways Department has been forced to admit, again, it is not doing anything about switching to low-carbon asphalt. In response to a request for more complete information the Council has conceded, in response to the question “What … Continue reading
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Manchester City Council #climate boss has no plans to ask “partnership” members to do owt, refuses to explain why she is not holding emergency summits.
Manchester City Council has been forced to admit that it has no plans to ask members of the so-called climate change “partnership” to even put information about the climate emergency on their websites. Further, the Council is refusing to explain … Continue reading
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