People often talk about ‘system change’, but what is ‘the system’? And what does system change imply? CUSP have a new podcast called The Water We Swim In exploring this question.
I’d detected this for myself anecdotally, but a new study has shown that the number of people using Twitter to discuss environmental issues has halved since Elon Musk took over the platform as his personal ego project. This is a significant loss, given how useful Twitter was for following climate science and news.
Covering Climate Now offer 7 tips for journalists and editors on combatting climate misinformation, including the slightly awkward word ‘prebunking’, and when silence is best.
Drought conditions in Panama have reduced the number of ships that can pass through the canal, creating a traffic jam of ships and once again exposing the fragility of global logistics.
An aspect of climate justice that I haven’t heard much about – prisons in America see a spike in suicide risk during extremely hot days, according to new research.
Highlights from this week
The Climate Majority Project
The issue of climate change seems to be in a strange cycle in British politics, or certainly in the Conservative party. We get moments of progress and commitment. Then there’s silence for a bit. Then everything goes backwards all of a sudden. David Cameron campaigned on the idea that you could ‘vote blue, go green’…
Climate Change Isn’t Everything, by Mike Hulme
This Changes Everything was the title of Naomi Klein’s big climate book a few years ago. This book echoes that in both the title and its blue design, striking a cautionary note – other things matter too, and there are consequences to forgetting that. And no, as Hulme says in pretty much every chapter, that…
Neocolonialism and carbon credits
A few weeks ago I wrote about problem of casually promised offsets in a world with limited land. Corporations and governments rely on carbon offsetting in order to meet climate targets, and if we add up all the pledged offsets so far, it’s very obvious that it is impossible to deliver them all. Where will…
The Earthbound Report 