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 hamsters, capitalism and doughnuts
Aweh, My Dearly Beloved Fellow Ruminants & Groupies As some of my more socialist colleagues have diagnosed, I am apparently an anarcho-capitalist. For the uninitiated, that’s someone who dreams of a utopia where the free market replaces governments and common sense, with private companies managing roads, courts, and probably your gran’s knitting club. Fantastic, right?Continue reading “Ruminations on hamsters, capitalism and doughnuts”
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”
Ruminant Pink Friday 