Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Marianne Cooper and Maxim Voronov optimistically suggest that our state of denial surrounding the climate crisis and other collective action problems can’t get any deeper. – But Julia Steinberger examines the array of wealth and power dedicated to pushing perpetually-increasing extraction regardless of the environmental damage it
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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Night Cat Blogging
Tuckered-out cat.
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Reviewing The Cass Review Report
The subtitle for this should be "How Cass Weaponized Science". Now that the Cass Review has published their final report, it is possible to look beyond the apparent issues in how the report was assembled, and examine the report, its recommendations, and see just how bad it really is. Read
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Thom Hartmann discusses how the selfish preferences of billionaires are almost invariably winning out over the public interest in the U.S. due in part to the treatment of advertising dollars as the most vigorously-protected form of speech. Jim Stanford highlights the obvious flaws in
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: Birthday dinner at CopaCabana Brazilian Steakhouse
I haven’t gotten to experience it much — only twice on work trips in my last career to San Francisco and Las Vegas — but I’m a big fan of Brazilian-style steak, aka rodizio. Basically, it’s a fixed price (excluding drinks) for all of the meat and other sides (to
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Monica Curtis offers a reminder that even from the standpoint of a blinkered fixation on limiting costs, we’re better off working to avert a climate breakdown rather than suffering its effects. Kenza Bryan reports on Swiss Re’s warning that large areas are becoming
Continue readingJeff Jedras: Eating off the Hill: Thali in Ottawa
Meeting a friend in Ottawa for dinner back in February some Hill-adjacent Indian food seemed just the thing to warm the insides on a cool winter’s day. And just a short block away at O’Connor and Laurier is Thali, the downtown restaurant of the same folks behind the famed Coconut
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Musical interlude
Gareth Emery & Emma Hewitt – Take Everything (Standerwick Remix)
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Evening Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bill Weir writes a poignant letter of apology to his son about the state of the planet being left to future generations. – Cory Doctorow is optimistic that we have the means to avert the worst dangers of the climate crisis –
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Suman Naishadham offers a look at the latest evidence of a climate breakdown in progress. And Richard Crim examines James Hansen’s grim projections of continued warming even from year to year. – Max Fawcett weighs in on the need of tar sands operators to
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Geoffrey Diehl wonders when we’ll see a revolution – while noting that even as some of the challenges we already face demand systemic change which is being put off through corporate demurral, some of the plausible sources include people determined to impose even
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Rohan Best, Fatemeh Nazifi and Han Cheng study the effects of carbon pricing, and find that charges attached to carbon pollution also help to reduce numerous other dangerous pollutants. But Rebecca Hercher reports on new NOAA data showing that we’re still experiencing record
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryn Nelson offers a call to action against the anti-science, anti-reality industry seeking to blast out propaganda to keep corporate coffers spilling over at the expense of public health and safety. And John Woodside sets out the greenwashing plan being used to
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Li Cohen discusses how the Earth has experienced 12 months of record heat in a row – but is on track to see today’s extreme heat become a lower baseline for the decades to come. And Peter Crank points out how already-vulnerable people –
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Joëlle Gergis asks what it will take for political leaders to acknowledge and act on the science demonstrating that we’re on the precipice of climate disaster. And Fiona Harvey discusses Laurence Tibuania’s eminently reasonable take that the people who built wealth through an unsustainable
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: On Coded Language and Political Policy
In the last few years, coded language has become a significant factor in how political parties present themselves. This is especially prevalent among parties who are adopting policy positions that if they said them in plain language most people would be horrified about. Today’s examples come to us from
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Robert Reich discusses the growing gap between the well-being of lower-income and higher-income consumers in the U.S. – as well as the reality that the former are being perpetually worse served by the market as businesses chase the larger amounts of money held
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Sunday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your Sunday reading. – Seth Borenstein, Mary Katherine Wildeman and Anita Snow find that the U.S. suffered a record number of heat-related deaths in 2023, while Aryan Dwivedi reports on unprecedented death tolls in India this year. And Julius Choudhury offers some tips on surviving extreme heat
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