Ocean
“I have come to Antarctica ahead of COP28. Ice here is melting into the ocean at record rates – raising sea levels and directly endangering the lives and livelihoods of people in coastal areas across...
View ArticlePoetry and Stuff: Ep 12
So, Episode 12, the first one for 2024, is now up… you can listen to the podcast here. (It should run on your browser, even if you don’t have spotify) There’s a bunch of poems about beginnings and...
View ArticlePhase-out/Phase-down
“Transitioning away from fossil fuels in energy systems, in a just, orderly and equitable manner, accelerating action in this critical decade, so as to achieve net zero by 2050 in keeping with the...
View ArticleUntitled -6: a repost
Sharing this poem again today. It was written on November 2nd, not even a month into the war. Yesterday, the world’s biggest court has been asked if it will stop it.
View ArticleLithium-ion: a repost
Sharing this poem from December again- with a link to a new article in The Guardian about Lithium mining.
View ArticleLife Buffers
that is all, a new January, the sky cold and wet, and the poetry of the oppressed like streaks of blood settling across it, but you must taste the coffee from here, from where I am, froth sitting like...
View ArticleQuestion of Money
LOSS AND DAMAGE: “Wealthy countries most responsible for the climate emergency have so far pledged a combined total of just over $700m (£556m) to the loss and damage fund – the equivalent of less than...
View ArticleReading list update -20
The first reading update for 2024. Two classics to start with, both written in the 1940s. Here’s my updated 2024 Reading List, here’s the previous update and here is my 13-point review: 1. For whom the...
View ArticleIs a bridge that is never crossed, still a bridge?
Here, your life: a well- worn sweater, blue, soft, a cup of tea, endless sky, something about something knitting pleasant lines inside your head, the wind unravelling tree-heads, petals falling, bees...
View ArticleJustice: a repost
Sharing this poem from my climate series again – with this link to a new article that points out how fossil fuel production is only increasing. “As we speak, unless we lie to ourselves, none of the...
View ArticleDistress: a repost
Wanted to share this again today with a link to this new article that says ”climate change will trigger and exacerbate mental illness, with young people and those from marginalised backgrounds being...
View ArticleRainforest
“The answer is simple. If we lose the world’s forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our earth’s greatest utility – our planet’s lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning...
View ArticlePoetry and Stuff: Ep 13
Just dropped Episode 13…you can listen to the podcast here. (It should run on your browser, even if you don’t have spotify) There’s some Jisei, some Emily Dickinson and more… take a listen!
View ArticleIf you put magic shoes
if you put magic shoes on the feet of a wooden goat it will fly to the moon if you put magic shoes on the feet of an oak it will sing a lullaby if you put magic shoes on the feet of the earth it will...
View ArticleScience
Here’s what the science says: The 1.5oC goal is sacred i.e. global temperature should not rise beyond 1.5oC over the pre-industrial average to avoid triggering major tipping points. That means by 2030...
View ArticleIt should hurt
The way this week started after a judgement on plausible risk of genocide. The way the world is still exactly the same. Maybe not exactly, because many more things have been destroyed since then. More...
View ArticleReading list update -21
Just finished reading two very different books (that’s 4 for the year). One, the story of the number Zero and the second, an incredible collection of poems. Here is my updated 2024 reading list and...
View ArticleUntitled – 15
There is a video with the names of some of the 11500 children killed in the war Names rolling up a black screen going up going away And here’s the thing The names run by so fast, we can’t hold them...
View ArticleTipping Point
“Five major tipping points are already at risk of being crossed due to warming right now and three more are threatened in the 2030s as the world exceeds 1.5C global warming” – globaltippingpoints.org...
View ArticlePoetry and Stuff: Ep 14
OK episode 14 is up…you can listen to the podcast here. (It should run on your browser, even if you don’t have spotify) Lots of poetry from different parts of the world – poems about kindness and...
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