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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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Category Archives: academia
New Year’s (ir)resolutions from #Manchester #Climate Monthly
It’s that time of year again. I’ve sent the questionnaire below to all the usual suspects – Green Party, Friends of the Earth, Climate Survivors, Carbon Coop, Kindling, Global Justice Now, Fossil Free Greater Manchester, Steady State Manchester. We’re not … Continue reading
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#Manchester Professor (Kevin Anderson) on#climate deal in Paris
Professor Kevin Anderson has a typically blunt article in the latest edition of the journal “Nature” – here is a the beginning of it; The climate agreement delivered earlier this month in Paris is a genuine triumph of international diplomacy. … Continue reading
Good questions about (after) sustainability
So, if there were a functioning climate movement in Manchester, it would, imho, be answering some of the questions in bold (scroll down if you want to see them). But there isn’t. Ho-hum, #gladtobe45andchildfree. Global Discourse special issue: ‘After … Continue reading
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Professor Kevin Anderson on #Climate, #hope, 2 degrees and #Paris
Climate scientist Professor Kevin Anderson spoke to Manchester Climate Monthly on Monday 23rd November. In the two separate videos that follow, you can see him outlining what is at stake in the upcoming Paris climate conference – the nature of … Continue reading
Psychology and #climate seminar in #Manchester, Tues 24th November
Tues 24 Nov 2 – 3.30pm John Dalton East, 423 No need to book, just turn up. http://www.business.mmu.ac.uk/seeg/seeg-meetings.php Psychosocial processes involved in influencing pro-environmental decision-making in the organisation: an individual-level interpretative phenomenological analysis There is a deeply troubling dissonance between … Continue reading
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Upcoming: Another seminar about #Paris #Manchester Monday 23rd Nov #Tyndall
Adequacy and Equity under Neoliberal Climate Governance: Assessing the Paris Moment What are the prospects for the Paris climate change negotiations? Based on the new book Power in a Warming World (MIT Press, September), this talk reviews Paris and previous … Continue reading
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Upcoming event on low carbon investment opportunities in UK electricity
“Reducing uncertainty and managing risk: How incumbent actors are creating low carbon investment opportunities in the UK electricity sector”. The seminar is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 30 September 2015 in Room 10.05, Harold Hankins Building from 4.00 pm … Continue reading
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“Does Local #Climate Information Stimulate Action?” Probably Not…. Tyndall Centre
For these individuals, hearing about likely local impacts of climate change was demotivating. Instead of spurring action, hearing the local projections about increased flooding and other likely local outcomes made self-enhancing people care less than their similar self-transcendent value oriented … Continue reading
“So we bleat on…”; Q&As/P&As and the pathological meetings of academics and activists
This article outlines the very familiar pathological pattern of meetings at which dialogue is lauded and then slaughtered, the usual attempts to fix the pathologies, and then describes why they usually fail. It closes out with what COULD be done, and … Continue reading
“Procuring renewable energy in South Africa: a new frontier?” seminar in #Manchester Thurs 25th June
Procuring renewable energy in South Africa: a new frontier? Dr. Lucy Baker, Research Associate, University of Sussex Thursday 25th June (room C1, George Begg Building, Sackville Street) at 2.00pm. In the last three years carbon-intensive, coal-dependent South Africa has become … Continue reading
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