Category Archives: Environment

There is no ‘planet B’ – yet we’re using it already

Posted on July 29, 2021 by pendantry

Happy§ Earth Overshoot Day! Time to celebrate: we’re now using almost three-quarters of ‘planet B’. Shame it doesn’t exist. Back in 2014, I wrote a set of edicts I would apply ‘If I ruled the world‘. One of those (#4) … Continue reading →

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Donate to fund dogs in the Serengeti

Posted on July 27, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Learning from Dogs:
This plea came in from Mr. Pedantry! This came in yesterday and I thought for some time that I wouldn’t be able to publish it quickly owing to me getting my knickers in a…

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‘The climate is always changing’: true, but not helpful

Posted on July 20, 2021 by pendantry

“When we already believe the world to be a certain way, then we interpret new experiences to fit with those beliefs, whether they actually do or not.” Thus spake Veritasium I had another post scheduled for today, but this one … Continue reading →

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From 1985: Warnings from Carl Sagan and Al Gore (Take Two)

Posted on June 22, 2021 by pendantry

Climate deniers will have a hard time explaining these to their grandchildren, the kids who are now woke to the disasters they’ve been served by blindness and greed. Astounding find by climatestate. Source: Climate Denial Crock of the Week I … Continue reading →

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One has to acknowledge that a box exists before being able to think outside it

Posted on June 1, 2021 by pendantry

Paul Handover of ‘Learning from Dogs’ pointed me to this important interview the other day. It stumbles and rambles a bit, but some interesting points are made, especially towards the end where the idea is raised that academia has been … Continue reading →

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Vsauce on ‘The Future of Reasoning’

Posted on May 29, 2021 by pendantry

‘Vsauce‘ is a YouTube channel with ~17 million subscribers, one that I’ve followed for some time now; it features a huge amount of thought-provoking content. Its main host, Michael Stevens (@tweetsauce), has been quiet for some time, but he recently … Continue reading →

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Happy World Bee Day!!! 🐝

Posted on May 20, 2021 by pendantry

Originally posted on Filosofa's Word:
This is a re-post of the one I wrote last year for World Bee Day, but some of you haven’t yet seen it, others may have forgotten it, and it says everything I would…

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What really happens to your plastic recycling?

Posted on May 1, 2021 by pendantry

Many of us spend time carefully sorting our recycling. But what actually happens to the plastic waste we put out for collection? Greenpeace UK enlightened me on this subject a short while ago. There’s no WordPress ‘reblog’ button on their … Continue reading →

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Green Party 10-point climate plan

Posted on April 27, 2021 by pendantry

Blatantly stolen from the Green Party 10-point climate plan: This is what real climate ambition looks like The Green Party has been proposing radical and necessary action on climate change for the past three decades. We were talking about these … Continue reading →

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On Earth Day, please choose to NOT cremate yourself

Posted on April 22, 2021 by pendantry

Happy Earth Day 2021! World ‘leaders’ are meeting today and tomorrow for US President Biden’s ‘Leaders Summit on Climate‘. And there are several other ‘summits’ taking place to discuss this topic throughout the coming months, including the UK-hosted COP26 in … Continue reading →

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