The Japanese cut down a great number of Taiwanese redwood-like giants, 1 - 3,000 years old 😂

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Happy conscious Saturday everyone,

Two years. Still a concise summary of my view on climate science and the IPCC. While acknowledging all the hard work by scientists volunteering their time, you also need to understand why it's not working and why - social scientist here - climate governance needs new formats. 👇

'Apocalyptic narrative no longer has much force as a strategy of environmental communication or aesthetics. The more promising forms of eco-futurist narrative are those seeking to outline new social forms that can emerge from current ecological crisis.' cambridge.org/core/books/abs…

I disagree Emmanuel

This concept of “sociovirology” is like shaking all vegetables in a grinder and calling it “smoothie”. This simply is a rebranded name of quasispecies, virus-virus, virus-host interactions blend. Stop confusing people for the sake of finding a niche.

In an interconnected world we need interconnected people with the courage and the skills to span the silos that have chopped the world into pieces.

Me to esteemed colleague: Could I ask you a question about the PETM?

Colleague: This is to win an argument on the internet?

Me:

Colleague:

I’ve got a sneaky feeling that one day we will learn (and accept) that SARS-CoV-2 wasn’t quite so novel as our political leaders and their health advisers led us to believe…

After an evening of public talks in Houston on effects of sea-level rise in the region I asked a question about whether there is an economically sustainable path for an energy transition here. In their replies most of the speakers mentioned the oil companies' CCS programs.