We are the asteroid: why act?
This article provides a summary and reminder of why the Climate and Ecological Emergency is ‘the asteroid’ (as popularised in the film Don’t Look Up) – and also why ‘we […]
This article provides a summary and reminder of why the Climate and Ecological Emergency is ‘the asteroid’ (as popularised in the film Don’t Look Up) – and also why ‘we […]
A tipping point is a threshold that, when exceeded, can lead to large changes in the state of the system. In the case of global climate disruption, these changes could […]
I’m at the We Are Museums conference in Katowice in Poland. The host, the Muzeum Slaskie, has been created out of the site of a disused coal mine. The old […]
Scientists have warned that we have only about 12 years to cut global emissions in half, and that doing so will require a worldwide mobilisation on the scale of WW2. […]
“Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by […]
This list is an interpretation of the risks of climate change identified by the 4th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.* I’ve come up with a set of possible […]
I’m still thinking about systems, developing ideas about levelling up and leveraging action. This is a refresh of some old work, about the dynamic interrelationships between climate change, resource extraction, […]
Part of the Julie’s Bicycle course was about climate change, how to talk about it and how to motivate people to take action.
It’s 4.18. Last night I went to see Kate Tempest perform Let Them Eat Chaos. The title of this post is a line from Tunnel Vision, the last section of […]
What do you think of when you hear the phrase ‘after Paris’? What do you think should be the response of museums to ‘after Paris’? How can museums help bring […]