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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: Book Review
Book Review: Fugue for a Darkening Island
Christopher Priest – until Christopher Nolan’s 2006 film of his book ‘The Prestige’ by Christopher Nolan – was one of our ‘unsung heroes’ of off-kilter literature. The Separation was a tale of melded alternate histories of WW2 and Inverted World … Continue reading
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Book Review: “What’s Wrong with Climate Politics and How to Fix It” reposted from #lse
From the London School of Economics blog… Paul G. Harris prescribes several remedies for the failed politics of climate change, including a new kind of climate diplomacy with people at its centre, national policies that put the common but differentiated … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Goldilocks Planet “the four billion year story of earth’s #climate
MCFly reader (and artist!) Jane Lawson (see video here) reviews a book that has been four billion years in the making. The cosily-named Goldilocks Planet is a review of 4 billion years of the Earth’s climate history written by Jan … Continue reading
Book Review: What’s Mine is Yours – How Collaborative Consumption is changing the way we live
Book Review: What’s Mine is Yours – How Collaborative Consumption is changing the way we live by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, Harper Collins 2011 When I picked up this book by chance, I thought it would be useful as … Continue reading
Book Review: Forty Signs of Rain
Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson 2004 356 pages Kim Stanley Robinson is not a muppet. That’s important in a human being, and even more so in an author. And in an author trying to help readers exactly how … Continue reading
Book Review: “Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society”
Davey, B (Ed.). (2012). Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society. Dublin: FEASTA. ISBN 9780954051020. 188 pages, paperback price: £14.95. [website] This is an interesting book with some really good material. It is based on the idea … Continue reading
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Book Review: Sharing Eden – Green teachings from Jews, Christians and Muslims
Sharing Eden – Green teachings from Jews, Christians and Muslims is a small book which is trying to do a big thing: encourage those of faith to take more positive action for the environment. And therein lies the strengths and also the … Continue reading
Book Review: Occupy World Street
Occupy World Street: A global roadmap for radical economic and political reform Ross Jackson Green Books 2012 336 pages Don’t judge a book by its… title. This book was surely completed before the “Occupy” movement burst onto the world’s television … Continue reading
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Book Review: Climate Change and Political Strategy
Climate Change and Political Strategy ed Hugh Compston Routledge 2011 (Amazon link) According to its blurb, this book “analyses the political dynamics of climate policy in affluent democracies from a number of different theoretical angles in order to improve our … Continue reading
