Which Stephen King book is that from
It’s just fascism. Ecology is a distinct ontology that they will never share.
Surely R2P is dead because it is dead empirically; the international society of states failed to protest let alone prevent genocide. Either we need new ontological starting points-buhbye IR-or a serious, Arendt level study of why states failed.
Here is a more seriously scholarly critique of what happens at the science policy interface. All climate scientists should read it. Especially the bit about censorship of tipping points (which only ended in 2022).
This two-part paper details the arguments and evidence that have been marshalled by both climate scientists and social scientists to critique the curr…
Your duty is to science, not fantasy “options”! The IPCC’s 1.5 report stated CDR is not proven but still spammed their carbon reduction pathways with it. For a coin toss probability of 1.5! Who is playing dice with the planet now?
Would you be willing to condemn states who drafted the Glasgow climate pact & later COP outcomes which pseudoscientifically claimed 1.5C could be met by global net zero by 2050? That IPCC pathway in 2018 was dodgy enough.
I think optimism is different from hope, especially if we realise hope is something we build and make in the real world. It’s not an emotion we can buy at any market. So I hope in the face of my fear.
What’s wrong with them?
I realise now my own political philosophy is very influenced by the Hitchcock Lovelock Margulis Sagan body of ideas. The world would be so much poorer without them.
I’m up to the second last chapter and it’s still great. Just read in the guardian it all began with your own cardiac arrest. Hope your ticker is stronger than ever.