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Tag Archives: Occupy Wall Street
All things are still connected
Apologies for the dearth of blog posts recently, which is due to Anthropocene Reality being affected by a lack of health: I have not known an illness like it for some years and, although I am beginning to feel a … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropocene, Carbon Capture and Storage, Civilisation, Climate Science, Ecological Modernisation, Economics, Environment, Ethics, Fossil Fuels, Growthmania, Limits to Growth, Modernity, Politics, Scepticism, Sustainable development
Tagged Belshazzar's Feast, Occupy Wall Street, Writing on the wall
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Alessio Rastani said it all
Over the recent holiday period, another TV programme I more or less stumbled upon was the Top 50 Most Annoying People of 2011 (BBC Three, 31 December 2011). Independent financial market trader Alessio Rastani made it into the top 50 … Continue reading
How can we be held to ransom like this?
Given the perilous state of the EU and the world economy as a result of Italy now being at the mercy of a very small number of individuals within credit rating agencies and money-lenders (whom even entire Governments cannot control), … Continue reading
World is warming. Pope is ex-Buddhist.
Over on Wattsupwiththat, the noise of furious back-pedalling is reaching truly deafening levels (e.g. ‘World is warming. Pope is Catholic.’). However, Anthony Watts has been caught out spectacularly (see below) and is now refusing to explain himself pending the publication … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Environment, Financial Crisis, IPCC, Politics, Scepticism
Tagged Anthony Watts, Heartland Institute, IPCC, Occupy Wall Street, Peter Jacques, SPPI, Wattsupwiththat?
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An open letter to Anthony Watts
Dear Anthony, In your post today, you make a very valid point about the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature (BEST) team publicising their findings before completing their normal PR process (and you may be right that their haste is due to … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Science, Climategate, Cognitive Dissonance, Confirmation Bias, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, Hockey Stick Illusion, IPCC, Politics, Scepticism, UNFCCC
Tagged Andrew Montford, Anthony Watts, Atlas Network, Climategate, IPCC, Occupy Wall Street, Richard Muller, Wattsupwiththat?
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The ecological challenge for Liberalism
A Review of ‘Liberalism’ by Marcel Wissenburg, in Dobson, A. and Eckersley, R. (2006), Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (pp.20-34), Cambridge: CUP. In the opening chapters of Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge, the contributing authors attempt to demonstrate … Continue reading
The ecological challenge for Conservatism
A Review of ‘Conservatism’ by Roger Scruton, in Dobson, A. and Eckersley, R. (2006), Political Theory and the Ecological Challenge (pp.7-19), Cambridge: CUP. This book is a collection of essays looking at the challenge of the environmental movement from a … Continue reading
Climate Change – It’s an Inside Job
The climate change angle can wait; as I want to tackle the ongoing financial crisis first… I have just gotten round to watching a DVD of the award-winning 2010 documentary, Inside Job, brilliantly narrated by Matt Damon, which tells the … Continue reading
Posted in Civilisation, Climate Science, Consumerism, Economics, Environment, Financial Crisis, IPCC, James Delingpole, Limits to Growth, Modernity, Money Fetishism, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Scepticism, UNFCCC
Tagged Atlas Network, Carpe diem, Herman Daly, Inside Job, IPCC, James Delingpole, John Bolton, life, Occupy Wall Street, Sieze the day, Watermelons
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