by Evan Dwan | Sep 8, 2021 | News |
Bertrand Russel, the philosopher, argued that most discussions of politics take insufficient account of psychology. What, then, are the psychological roots of the climate crisis? Psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe argues that capital E ‘Exceptionalism’ lies at the root of...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 7, 2021 | News |
In 1977, scientist James Black delivered a presentation to Exxon executives called ‘the greenhouse effect’. Black gave evidence that the carbon dioxide released during the burning of fossil fuels was warming the planet. This warming, he revealed, will eventually pose...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2021 | News |
Facing the challenge of the climate crisis fundamentally involves creating not just change but transformation. We are going to need to change the way we eat, farm, travel and how we power and heat our homes. However, a lot of damage has already been done and so the...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 3, 2021 | News |
A project called ‘Framing climate justice’ describes the ‘story’ of climate justice as follows. Climate change is real and is already happening; the cause of climate change is exploitative systems like capitalism and colonialism; the changing climate increases the...
by Evan Dwan | Aug 31, 2021 | News |
Natural cycles in the warming and cooling of the earth and other events have led to five mass extinctions, the last of which occurred 65 million years ago with the end of the dinosaurs. Six million years ago, early humans emerged, with the rise in human civilisation...
