Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Before the Flood’: A Review
The film would have us believe that we can have our cake and eat it. We can’t. But there is still a delicious, albeit different, menu on offer.
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Introducing … The Nearly Carbon-Free Academic Conference: The World in 2050
What if we held a conference and nobody came?
Review: 7 key scenes in Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate film Before the Flood
Before the Flood, a new feature-length documentary presented and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, is released in cinemas tomorrow.
Some Thoughts on System Change
It becomes clearer with each passing day that simply ameliorating current problems is not going to be sufficient. This blog is about how we might scale up transformative change.
The Earthquake in Italy and the Silliest Comment ever Received about Climate Change
So, why is the debate on climate change so special? In one sense, it is the sheer vastness of the problem.
Climate Change Activism: A Post-Mortem
Thus it’s not inappropriate to ask what happened to all the apparent political momentum the climate change movement had ten or fifteen years ago, and why a movement so apparently well organized, well funded, and backed by so large a scientific consensus failed so completely.
What Brexit teaches us about Climate Change Communications
The Remain campaign was an object case in bad communications, one from which there is much to learn.
It’s Time for a New Age of Enlightenment: why Climate Change needs 60,000 Artists to Tell its Story
In 2013, one of the world’s leading public relations experts, Bob Pickard, cried out to the climate world: “mobilise us!” In a frustrated op-ed, he listed 20 key problems with climate communication. One of them was “story fatigue”: bland stories with “highly repetitive and stale” themes.
How the Fort McMurray Climate Conversation Went Down in Flames
Connecting extreme weather events with climate change isn’t exactly a new thing.
Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: A New Strategy for the Climate Movement: Excerpt
Emergency mode is the mode of human psychological functioning that occurs when individuals or groups respond optimally to existential or moral emergencies.
The State of the Climate Movement
Movements provide visible demonstrations of people living out the new norms that they espouse.
The Collapse of Western Civilization: Review
Collapse is a scenario of decline. The question is whether it is a useful one.