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the climate emergency: trajectories and options
As you know I follow this story quite closely, and I can confirm that these figures are an accurate representation of the science. The problem of course is politics: right now it is looking very unlikely we will avert this. Which basically means most humans are going to die in the next few decades.
However there is a silver lining (if you can call it that): at 1.5-2.0 degrees the massive crop failures and resulting famine, whilst leading to enormous suffering and death (from starvation and war) in the short term, will lead (once enough humans are dead) to a collapse of the world’s civilization: at that point carbon emissions will drop to (near) zero, and since nature abhors a vacuum, trees and animals will take over again – those trees will absorb CO2 which in time will cool the earth again.
“the climate emergency: trajectories and options” の続きを読むa story about racism from my childhood
EDIT 2025/10/01:
During my visit to the UK this summer I had a conversation with someone who in recent years had a very similar experience to mine (it seems we share the same nickname). In that conversation, they alluded to, but did not speak out loud, the racist slurs that were said to them.
When I originally wrote this post in 2019 I included the slurs in full because this is a traumatic story from my childhood, and I felt I could not tell the story properly without including the language used towards me at that time.
But here in 2025 I’m no longer comfortable with writing the racist slurs out in full in this post, so I have edited them out. The rest of the post remains unchanged, including the warning.
Thanks for your understanding, and for reading.
WARNING: this post contains (quoted) racist language
People often comment that I am of a somewhat darker complexion than the average white England person. In the mid-eighties, when my family moved to the white largely rural-working class village of Charfield in South Gloucestershire, I started attending the local comprehensive school (Katherine Lady Berkeley’s school, or KLB) and this quirk of my appearance quickly gained me a new nickname, a derogatory slang term for someone of east Asian origin.
