This is kind of inspired by a short animation a friend showed me, where the author had commented on his ‘utopian’ youth, in which he thought he could change the world, and so became involved in activism for a while before becoming increasingly frustrated and eventually giving up, coming to the conclusion that he could [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Notes on Changing the World
Posted in Uncategorized on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Capitalism, Consumption, and Sustainability
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, cultural criticism, tagged capitalism, consumption, ecology, resource depletion, sustainability on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We are constantly being reminded by environmentalists that we only have one planet on which to live, a single set of resources which are being depleted at an ever increasing rate…
But our biosphere is not a static pool of resources. The world is constantly changing. All around us life is growing, evolving, renewing itself, becoming [...]
Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On 13th Spetember 2008 between 10am and 5pm the St Werburghs Centre, on Horley Rd in St Werburghs Bristol will host Bristol’s first anarchist bookfair for 15 years.
According to the events organisers
‘An Anarchist Bookfair is a day of anarchist books, ideas, pamphlets, discussions, merchandise, networking, free info, help & solidarity, games, bike workshops, tools, [...]
The Blundering BBC
Posted in climate change, media, tagged accuracy, bbc, climate change, journalism on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Debates over Anthropogenic Climate Change deal with probability in complex nonlinear dynamical systems. The issues are difficult for lay people to understand at the best of times due to their complexity, however any understanding of ACC is likely to be undermined by poor quality journalism.
In debates over media democracy stemming from Internet based telecommunications, professional [...]
Realism, Beliefs and Change
Posted in Ecophilosophy, activism, climate change, tagged beliefs, climate change, realism on August 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a response to some heated debate currently occurring on Bristol Indymedia…
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/688696
Some thoughts on the Proff’s
‘Climate change is happening. We, and the generations before us, have caused it. It should not matter whether we believe it or not.”‘
And Art’s reply
‘Just read that last sentence again – “It should not matter whether we believe it [...]
