Extinction Rebellion

On April 6th, the scientists rebelled. Hundreds of scientists around the world stood up, sat in, protested and demanded to be heard as part of a global day of action organized by Scientist Rebellion. Here in California, four scientists who have spent years trying to make their voices heard and…

I look around and wonder, what would happen to our generation? Even the next that’s on the way. Living a life so superficial, the good memories all in vain. Does it really make them happy to share the good times they been having? Is it the rest of us watching who…

Speech on privilege and responsibility for the Scientist Rebellion in The Hague — So in the, I decided to improvise my speech rather than read from paper. That’s because one of the harrowing things I find of being an academic, is having to try to come across as neutral, objective, and without emotion. When you write about climate change, however, there is lots…

“Energy idea: harness the heat from the tomato within the toastie” — @Briggs this is an edited extract of the article originally published with the Agility Plan, by Future Leaders, on writing.org.au (to note, this is a long read. The tl:dr summary: 100% renewable electricity is very doable. It would…

We can’t carry on as normal any more. Given what we know about what’s happening to the climate and to nature, we have to use our ability to take action to force action on the problem we inherit. The reasons climate change and the destruction of the wild are happening…

Speaking truth to power: 1, 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8a & 8b — This follows on the previous post highlighting the Kenyan Embassador’s speech to UN on Ukraine — while not young at 50 he’s young by diplomatic standards — and I celebrate our youth leaders, three examples of which popped up recently. …

A new World Order: 1 & 2 — Reframing religion and science without the exclusion History is littered with pitch battles between religion and science: the former started not only as faith and a social phenomenon, but also a means to help explain the unexplainable; it was gradually overtaken by the latter that developed as understanding our environs increased over time. I recently realised that…

In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman cautions against the expectation that democracies will end in the future in the way that they have ended in the past. Our pictures of the death of democracy, he says, are pictures of military coups and dictators, of the collapse of short-lived, fragile institutions…