Graham Caswell

"She's coming on, boys, and she's coming on strong."

- Last radio communication of Billy Tyne, captain of the Andrea Gail, October 28, 1991

Maybe we never had a chance. Maybe the enlightenment meant our inevitable suicide. Maybe social media and now AI is making us collectively insane. Maybe a spiritual revolution is our only salvation.

But we do know what's happening and we do know how to stop it.

Its just that we can't or we won't.

We find it too hard to think about the global and time scales involved. We find it too hard to accept the vast immorality of our own actions. We need to conform to and maintain the status and normalcy to which we've been programmed. We feel entitled to our luxuries.

It's easier not to think.

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The climate policy specifics seem obvious: Overwhelming information; taxes and prohibition of all but necessary consumption and FF use; massive, war-footing investment in efficiency and renewables, etc. Its no mystery.

But who'd vote for that?

We know what to do. We just choose not to do it.

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"What impedes response is not ignorance, but the gravitational pull of convenience, entrenched power, and habitual patterns of consumption and governance."

climateuncensored.com/the-arithmet...

I no longer log in to Youtube and don't accept its cookies, so every time I use it I'm starting fresh. I'm amazed at how quickly the feed fills with disinformation, propaganda, and lies.

How can you save science from disinformation, propaganda, and lies without saving media and politics from it?

I no longer log in to Youtube and don't accept its cookies, so every time I use it I'm starting fresh. I'm amazed at how quickly the feed fills with disinformation, propaganda, and lies.

How can you save science from disinformation, propaganda, and lies without saving media and politics from it?

Michael D Higgins regrets not calling out ‘disastrous capitalism’ more Former president said much of world’s wealth was now concentrated among ‘a few hundred people’

“The biggest danger [facing the world] is technological determinism becoming the new imperialism of our time”.

Higgins also said it was time for “radical ideas”, saying “it is not small adjustments that will tackle any of the issues” currently facing the world.

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

I’m at the Dublin Mind Body Experience at the RDS today with the Irish Anti-Vivisection Society 🐰 raising awareness about animal experiments 🧫 in Irish labs 🧪

Over 112,000 non-consenting sentient beings are used in tests, much of it for Botox 💉, two thirds of which is for the cosmetics industry.

Factual knowledge and critical thinking skills are the enemies of all gobshites everywhere.

[For the slow learners: physics is implacable and does not care for human wishes, dreams or aspirations. It responds only to our actions. "Net-zero" could - at best - re-stabilise climate; but even that is likely now too little too late. We now need net-negative. #InconvenientTruths]

"I never want to see a child running from an armed government again."

We also need to rebrand 'adaptation' as 'climate defense' and 'mitigation' as 'climate security'.

Well done, John. Every week you move the dial a little.

Convergent evolution like crabification also happens in technology. Look at the diversity of the cars in early motor races compared to the uniformity of Formula 1 cars today under 'survival of the fastest'. That's evidence (albeit circumstantial) for universality.

They mean the children not inspired, the curiosity not sparked, the STEM not studied, the careers not pursued, the innovations that will never happen. They mean these costs, right?

😂There's wisdom everywhere for those with eyes to see. No grant funding though!

Technocracy looks a lot like Neil Postman's Technopoly. And Avivocracy looks a lot like humility, temperance and acceptance.

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot know;
courage to learn the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

When you think about it, both Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency and Buddhism are based on the principle of the interconnectedness of all things.

Maybe the real difficulty is in unlearning duality, quantification, reductionism and epistemological arrogance? But what would I know.

WOW!

Just got the presentation for the new plans for College Green and Dame Street. Looks absolutely amazing.

The Greens have been pushing for this for nearly two decades: we'll keep on going until we get it over the line.

It was the Irish Green Party getting into government that got this. God bless PR.

So there's something like a 1 in 13 chance your house will burn down before the mortgage is paid off (not that you'll get a mortgage, because you won't be able to get insurance).

A lot of people living near water are also going to learn this the hard way. Best to sell before the rush.

Read our open letter to the Taoiseach and Climate Minister, arguing that there is no legal or scientific justification for delaying Ireland's Climate Action Plan. It's urgently needed to close the carbon budget delivery gap this decade, and further delays will increase overall costs.

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Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
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YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski This is what politicians without vested interests look like

You are welcome to disagree but I personally want people with this level of empathy, compassion and kindness in charge our lives, welfare and country.

Great episode with Zack Polanski and Hannah Spencer.

youtube.com/shorts/afqQX...

Recent talk recorded with slides.

Available at: climateuncensored.com/a-velvet-or-...

The presentation builds on and expands my short contribution to last November’s National Emergency Briefing. climateuncensored.com/national-eme...

Duration: 50-minute talk followed by a 30-minute Q&A.

Me too.

🎵
Did they get you to trade
Your heroes for ghosts
Hot ashes for trees
Hot air for a cool breeze
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?
🎵

I Said Environmentalism Was Out of Ideas. I Was Wrong. It's Worse. How the people fighting for the planet lost touch with the people living on it

"Over time, the [environmental] movement reorganized itself around professional legitimacy, institutional survival, and elite comfort. Risk became something to manage away. Process replaced power. Consensus replaced urgency."

drlennecefer.substack.com/p/i-said-env...