Cooling discourses and Agnosis – creating ignorance, these are environmental crimes that go unpunished

Cooling discourses are temporary stupefying discourses that facilitate a state of ignorance, or agnosis so that harmful activity can continue or resume unopposed. This is such a cool insight is to the spin business used to allow companies and individuals to harm all of us, and the other life we share the planet with. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1741659020973723?src=getftr

I’m a co-author on this new paper. World scientists’ warning: The behavioural crisis driving ecological overshoot

Our Climate crisis is just one of many other symptoms of overshoot and overshoot is our behavioural crisis. In this paper we explore what we consider to be three critical drivers in the creation and continuation of the human behavioural crisis. The behaviours behind overshoot are now actively promoted and exacerbated by social, economic and... Continue Reading →

Conference presentations from Day 1 of the Beyond Growth Conference held in Wellington on the weekend

My bit on net zero and decarbonising energy delusions starts at 55.45 mins Beyond growth: what can we learn from the international movement? Opening reflections with Dr Marta Conde, Dr Timothée Parrique, Dr Mike Joy and Dr Jack Santa Barbara. What can the degrowth movement in Aotearoa learn from and offer te ao Māori? An... Continue Reading →

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