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Where I come from

Ka tangi te titi; ka tangi te kaka; ka tangi hoki ahau. Tihei mauri ora! (The titi calls, the kaka calls; I call too. Behold – there is life!)1 What space am I in? From Paris, France, Bruno Latour comes…

July 7, 2019
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Organising to win

The Mexico City subway was jam-packed that morning in November 2003 when my friend Saul and I rode it into the Zocalo together. We had to stand in the aisle, pressed tightly together by the crush of the crowd. Saul…

October 7, 2019
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SchoolStrike4Climate – best slogans

The School Strikes for the Climate which are sweeping the world are notable for the originality and humour shown in many of the handmade placards held up by the strikers. Adults are starting to join in, inspired by youth. I…

October 4, 2019
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Economic growth and wellbeing – any connections?

As the global economy grows, expect to see more growth in storms and floods like the one which turned the Te Kawa stream from a natural creek into a drain between rubble in April 2014.     “Growth of industrial…

September 30, 2019
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A Green No Deal?

A Terrestrial examines a Modern document Could I live well without meat, air-conditioning, air travel, a car, cement, steel and paddocks? These are among the things Jasper Bernes in Between the Devil and the Green New Deal thinks need to…

September 16, 2019
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Capital in the 21st Century – the movie

If you got a lot of money (by chance, not effort) would you consider giving any of it to someone who was not so lucky? Or would you start thinking of reasons why you ‘deserve’ your literal good fortune, while…

August 12, 2019
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This is an emergency???

“I’m sorry, my friends, I didn’t want to stop you”, begins the Extinction Rebellion song This Is An Emergency, and goes on “When you were having such a fine time.” “But this is an emergency!”, it declares. In her 2017…

July 22, 2019
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Arguing on the wrong axis

“Ceux qui parlent de révolution et de lutte de classes sans se référer explicitement à la vie quotidienne, sans comprendre ce qu’il y a de subversif dans l’amour et de positif dans le refus des contraintes, ceux-là ont dans la…

July 12, 2019
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Climate Crisis Immediate Response Bill – ideas

Below is the submission I have made to the select committee considering the so-called Zero Carbon Bill. (Submissions close on July 16.) Rather than attempting to engage with the content of the ZCB, which is mostly about setting up a…

June 27, 2019
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Carbon No Zero?

Among the activists and thinkers who are concerned about the increasing heat and instability of the climate there has been a long-running debate about what exactly motivates people to take action. Some say that a realistic form of hope backed…

June 27, 2019
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