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#202. The shape of things to come
#202. The shape of things to come As, when and if the coronavirus pandemic recedes into the past, there’s a widespread assumption that we’ll see the welcome return of a ‘normality’ defined to include “growth” in the economy. The big change looking forward will, we’re assured, be the replacement of climate-harming oil, gas and coal with […]
SELCO: Pay Attention Because Your “New Normal” Should Be Survival Mode
SELCO: Pay Attention Because Your “New Normal” Should Be Survival Mode In one of the articles a few weeks ago I mentioned stuff about adapting, and I used “boiling the frog” story as an example of how situations that slowly deteriorate can make us lose our sharpness. We get accustomed to situations, things, or actions, and we […]
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas
People want a greener, happier world now. But our politicians have other ideas Boris Johnson’s ‘return to normality’ will only mean more consumerism at the expense of the planet – we must resist it Out there somewhere, marked on no map but tantalisingly near, is a promised land called Normal, to which one day we […]
‘Normal Is the Problem’
‘Normal Is the Problem’ So is normal’s idiot child, ‘the new normal.’ What we’ve made normal never was natural. Sharon Wilson is a fifth-generation Texan who drives around rural communities and takes pictures of oil and gas facilities with an infrared camera. The pictures make visible all the methane pollution that industry and governments pretend […]
We’re Not Going Back to Normal
We’re Not Going Back to Normal Turn the key and the economy will restart. That’s a myth a lot of people in the mainstream have peddled since governments started shutting down the economy in response to the coronavirus pandemic. That’s not going to happen. We’re not going back to normal. In fact, things weren’t “normal” […]
We Won’t Be Getting “Back to Normal.” Not Soon. Not Ever.
We Won’t Be Getting “Back to Normal.” Not Soon. Not Ever. When will we get back to normal? If you yearn for the days before COVID-19 swept across the planet, I regret to inform you that those days are gone. This isn’t a warm and fuzzy blog post telling you that everything is going to […]
There Is No Normal
There Is No Normal The wheel of time rolls forward, never retracing its path, but because it is a wheel, and we are riding in it, a persistent illusion persuades us that the landscape is recognizably the same, and that our doings within the regular turning of the seasons seem comfortably normal. There is no […]
In defense of using ‘the new normal’ to describe climate change
WHAT IS NORMAL ANYWAY? In defense of using ‘the new normal’ to describe climate change It’s been an unusual summer, to say the least. Heat maps keep taking on a red-orange glow, with some veering into rare magenta territory. The Carr Fire, one of the most severe in California history, has burned down 1,000 homes […]
Three Crazy Things We Now Accept as “Normal”
Three Crazy Things We Now Accept as “Normal” How can central banks “retrain” participants while maintaining their extreme policies of stimulus? Human habituate very easily to new circumstances, even extreme ones. What we accept as “normal” now may have been considered bizarre, extreme or unstable a few short years ago. Three economic examples come to […]
