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nces are dated none the less it remains one of the most illuminating things i ve ever read in my search to understand why this civilisation is gradually drifting toward intolerance division and ultimately self destructive violence george writes mainly about the uk but i find that everything he discusses applies equally to russian and ukraine to china and brazil to hungary and too many other parts of europe and particularly to the collapse of democracy in america why do i think this is so important perhaps the most important social and political analysis i have read in the last 20 years simply because we can never address a problem we do not or will not understand to me behind every regressive step backward every repression every fascist initiative every far right lie there lies a considerable body of deep anxiety if not fear i despair at the emaciated understanding that fills the channels and saturates our thinking every notional blame we read about fails to take account of the true threat that undermines us all that hovers patiently over and around us in the skies in the air in the oceans i refer of course to climate change a threat unlike any in our entire history it imposes an existential layer on every perceived issue where perhaps only nuclear war offers a substantial equivalence in terms of the extent of its destruction of everything we hold dear if we are to understand what it will take to save this civilisation from its own suicide we must start by understanding how we each of us individuals can become compliant in the descent towards darkness and that understanding must start here read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading leave a comment from america china civil liberties climate change economics politics trump and the 2nd american civil war may 3 2020 tags biden china civil war deep state democrats disinformation elizabeth warren republicans russia trump us elections voter fraud voter suppression my unhealthy interest in us politics leads me back to the keyboard to tell you why i think another civil war is coming to america how it will start and the really strange confluence of events that are leading the us towards its own destruction i saw this coming a few days ago and a guardian report lends my notion more weight the strangest proxy war ever seen where america is the host nation and the combatants are china and russia but instead of arming the various factions this is a virtual war fought between the disinformation factories of the two countries china supports biden by spreading the truth about trump while russia supports trump by spreading lies about biden once more it s a you couldn t make this shit up moment https www theguardian com world 2020 apr 30 trump claims china will do anything to stop his re election as coronavirus row escalates it s clear that trump has now chosen a strategy he believes will deflect much of the criticism he will face between now and november over his handling of the virus and the unfortunate fact that the world s most technologically advanced and richest nation has exhibited the worst response to the pandemic of any nation on earth with the most infections and the most deaths he will relentlessly blame china knowing his supporters will subscribe to this xenophobia almost reflexively and that they are likely a bit bored with pack hunting socialists xenophobic attacks on muslims and spraying swastikas on synagogues although none of this will ever go entirely out of fashion i do however predict that trump is going to get a lot more concerned about foreign interference in a us election when he s on the end of the kind of disinformation hilary clinton endured instead of the pandering russian support he got last time round whilst utterly failing to understand why putin was investing so heavily in splitting america apart and reducing its global influence to that of a nuclear armed banana republic read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading 4 comments from america biden china politics trump how to miss several boats amitav ghosh on climate change in literature october 30 2016 tags amitav ghosh cli fi guardian literature novels sci fi science fiction it s hard to summarise the gish gallop that is amitav ghosh s rather self serving and thoroughly specious article in the guardian but this quote seems to provide sufficient material to work with with my emphasis added it is a simple fact that climate change has a much smaller presence in contemporary literary fiction than it does even in public discussion indeed it could even be said that fiction that deals with climate change is almost by definition not of the kind that is taken seriously the mere mention of the subject is often enough to relegate a novel or a short story to the genre of science fiction amitav ghosh where is the fiction about climate change so to sum up if it s sci fi it s not serious not taken seriously by whom my first reaction to this elitist nonsense is anglo saxon in origin best move on the comments under the article are well informed considerably better informed actually and many focus on the self inflicted nature of ghosh s dilemma an obsession with the validity of genres and a casual disrespect for the work of so many authors whose work he dismisses because he thinks their work isn t literary fiction while berating authors he admires but who he claims have not contributed to cli fi or not contributed enough read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading 1 comment from art and culture climate change guardian literature why democrats who hate clinton should vote for her anyway september 1 2016 tags brexit hillary clinton presidential election scotus supreme court trump us elections americans can review their choice of president every four years they can never review the justices a president will appoint to the supreme court of the united states scotus the body whose political complexion will shape the future of american democracy for decades to come a lifetime appointment supreme court justices make and break the laws for better or worse they are largely unaccountable the only way an appointee can be removed is by impeachment which has never happened in since the court was founded in 1789 the court s power is hard to overstate it not only charts the course of us democracy but frequently holds the pen that writes the country s history slavery free speech civil rights abortion the death penalty and of course the right to bear arms are just some of the key decisions that have shaped american society in the near future and depending on who wins the race to the white house the court will likely be called to rule on socialised medicine immigration racial discrimination privacy and surveillance affirmative action voting rights and district boundaries climate change energy and environment to revisit citizens united and campaign finance the death penalty second amendment rights and roe v wade the cornerstone abortion ruling that enshrines a woman s right to choose these are pressing issues of grave import and the decisions made will define america for many decades read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading 10 comments from america climate change politics climate change consensus the percentage game june 2 2014 tags 97 agw anderegg climate change cook et al 2013 dana nuccitelli deniers doran zimmerman frank luntz global warming john cook oreskes prall scientific consensus a notorious lobby group just launched another scurrilous attack on the 97 consensus on climate change why do they waste their time when proving the lack of consensus should be so easy to do once more environmental scientist and risk assessor dana nuccitelli has been obliged to defend the paper he co authored with john cook assisted by a shed load of skeptical science readers quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature the paper proved once more that the vast majority of scientific papers and the scientists who wrote them endorse the principle theory of anthropogenic climate change that the climate is changing so rapidly there has to be a very un natural cause and humans are it on the off chance that you re unfamiliar with this issue cook and nuccitelli s peer reviewed paper published by respected journal environmental research letters confirmed what a number of previous studies had already found oreskes 2004 doran zimmerman 2009 anderegg et al 2010 all discovered that around 97 of climate scientists and or the papers they published support the basic tenets of global warming caused by human agency in the common parlance this 97 are said to form a consensus which on the face of it hardly seems to merit contention needless to say this consensus is in fact one of the most contentious issues in the entire climate change debate read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading 24 comments from 97 consensus climate change the anatomy of denialism the clarion call to action on climate change will be made by the next generation may 22 2014 tags aaas adaptation agw carbon brief christina figueres climate change droughts extreme weather global warming national science foundation pentagon royal society uk floods closing the extreme weather generation gap brings climate change reality to the public in a way that no amount of demagoguery can defeat when it comes to doing something about it the most intractable climate change problem is grass roots political support without a clear mandate there can be no substantive legislative progress it s a brave politician indeed who supports a course of action pretty much guaranteed to terminate his career a clear unequivocal mandate is a must it s absence to date is the biggest barrier to meaningful and enduring political action the reasons are diverse foremost in the democratic nations is the divisive nature of the debate a crucial issue when those divisions are ideological scientists pundits and activists alike may desire more public support based on scientific evidence but it seems clear that such evidence doesn t impinge much on the broader public discourse one way or another after all as i pointed out recently we ve had a literal mountain of reports delivered to our doors well screens all free all staggeringly comprehensive in both scope and weight and all from authoritative sources as diverse as the royal society the ipcc the aaas and the pentagon such diversity precludes the kind of foolish dismissal the denial community indulges in their projection that climate change science is coloured by ideological intentions when denial is founded on nothing else but they sure as hell don t have any science but as we shall see they don t appear to need any the mountainous reports may have some influence at institutional levels but in the public domain i fear that they gain little lasting traction as the huffington post reported recently according to the national science foundation s recently released science and engineering indicators 2014 80 of americans do not understand what it means to study something scientifically without an understanding of how science works the public are unlikely to be swayed by its discoveries beyond a mild frisson over the morning s first cup of coffee gosh ice in that cold place up north is melting it says here pass the toast can t believe how crap manchester united are this season read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp more print opens in new window print like loading 2 comments from climate change environmentalism extreme weather guardian science gwpf and bengtsson burning ivory towers provide convenient smoke screen for the melting ice may 20 2014 tags bengtsson climate change conspiracy theories daily mail david rose deniers global warming gwpf nigel lawson politics while the story of academic lennart bengtsson setting his pants on fire dominates the media are we being distracted from the disaster of the melting ice and the escalating war on science and fact for nigel lawson s global warming policy foundation christmas came early this week the gwpf is notionally an educational charity but in reality it s a lobbying outfit whose purpose appears to be to dismiss or minimise the significance of climate science at the behest of its funders frequently accused of disinformation and gross inaccuracy it is no surprise to find there are numerous documented links between the gwpf right wing political organisations and fossil fuel interests see sourcewatch desmogblog and others in the context of the gwpf and its machinations it is appropriate to consider a quote from one of the founding fathers of modern public relations the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country edward l bernays propaganda 1928 read more share this share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on telegram opens in new window telegram share on 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