Solar power
Why did we install PV? To save money? Be good planet-savers? Make our own power? Because we’re geeks? A little of everything?
Tag: climate change
The ladder of luxury
Lawns are a symbol of luxury. Yes, really. Can we free ourselves from chasing appearance of luxury to reduce consumption and simplify our lives?
Travel dilemmas
Travel is one of the best ways of increasing international understanding AND personally contributing to climate change … what to do?
Inappropriate Incentives
Having bought an EV which we can charge off our PV panels, for the first time in my life I almost like driving. But is this a good thing?
Limits to Growth
50 years ago the ‘Limits to Growth’ report predicted collapse of industrialised society in the 21st century, pointing out that infinite growth isn’t possible on a finite planet. We are exactly on track on their collapse trajectory. Can we rethink and embrace the concept of degrowth?
Climate Change & Consensus
Is it time to try consensus decision making in communities to drive action in the face of changing climates?
Good or Bad?
Should we be buying better? Like our electric vehicle to replace our defunct ICE car. Or buying less?
Some animals are more equal than others
Ethics – a tricky subject. Are all animals equally valuable? Are all humans equally valuable? Are they more or less or the same degree of valuable than animals? Is humans seeing themselves as outside the natural world a fundamental error?
Scales of change
Behavioural change takes 1.5 generations on average, technological change 2 to 3.5. If we want to have an impact on climate change, should governments start focusing on people’s behaviour rather than technological silver bullets? And how much of a role can community play?
Things I don’t understand
Human behaviour is puzzling. We avidly mine and invest in gold to store in vaults, we take flights to nowhere during COVID when we aren’t allowed to travel, we pretend to explore for resources when we are just trying to jack their value up, we can act swiftly in the face of a pandemic but, in the face of climate change, we seem powerless to act.