Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies, Tomorrow, I begin teaching my decarbonisation course for the third time to postgraduate students far younger, far more sleep-deprived, and far more socially enlightened than I ever was at that age. Writing today’s blog is a last-ditch attempt to clarify the swirling mess of messages and competingContinue reading “Ruminations on Social Justice, Narratives Being the Truth, and Decarbonisation”
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Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies First, I want to return to my dark old friend, cognitive dissonance. Some rightly accuse me of using complex language. Cognitive dissonance is that awkward brain glitch when you’re doing one thing but know deep down you should be doing the exact opposite—like eating a large pizzaContinue reading “Ruminations on cognitive dissonance, climate change and Parisian wishful thinking”
Ruminations on your responsibilities and climate change
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies So, let’s talk about responsibility. What are you really responsible for? And why should you even care? Responsibility is one of those words we throw around, but it’s slippery—one minute you think you’ve got a handle on it, the next, you’re overwhelmed by how much there isContinue reading “Ruminations on your responsibilities and climate change”
Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition
Aweh dearly beloved fellow ruminants & groupies This week, as promised and since the holidays are over, I will return to the topic of energy. Looking at some of my earlier blog posts on energy there was a lot of engineering techno-nerd stuff written by someone in the mirror who has extreme intuition about allContinue reading “Ruminations on grifters, subsidy harvesting, and dumb money in the energy transition”
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