So it seems that after a flurry of activity for the climate swoop last week where climate activists met at six strategic locations before converging on Blackheath to set up this year’s Climate Camp the mainstream media have largely lost interest in events. On the Guardian website today we have bibi van der Zee claiming [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Climate Camp: Mainstream Media Yearn for Riot Porn
Posted in activism, climate change, media, tagged activism, blackheath, climate camp, climatecamp, grassroots, guardian, london, media, protest on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism, tagged activism, climate change, grassroots, Kingsnorth, mon, Monbiot on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently George Monbiot has been in the blogosphere for his exchange with Iam Plimer in which he joined the bastion of scientists, bloggers and journalists condemning Plimer’s recent book. Personally I found his debate with Paul Kingsnorth far more interesting, Kingsnorth criticises Monbiot for seeking to create ‘Liberal Democracy 2.0′ arguing that ‘What we face [...]
Operation Bentham
Posted in activism, climate change, tagged activism, Bentham, climate, climate camp, climatecamp, police on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Having mounted a public relations campaign in an attampt to restore the image of the met after the G20 debacle, the police have decided to codename their operation for this year’s Climate Camp Operation Bentham. The operation’s moniker is a reference to the English social theorist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Bentham’s most frequently used concept [...]
