Articles by Anthony Judge
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CLIMATE OF CHANGE MISREPRESENTED AS CLIMATE CHANGE
Anthony Judge,
19 Nov 2008
Introduction This is a summary of ways in which the focus on climate change, understood as a problem, is being used, deliberately or inadvertently, to reframe the climate of change. The latter was previously associated with the innovative potentials of a new century, openness to new "thinking", the possibility of a "paradigm shift", and new […]
→ read full articleGEO-ENGINEERING OVERSIGHT AGENCY FOR THERMAL STABILIZATION (GOATS)
Anthony Judge,
13 Nov 2008
Introduction An editorial in the journal New Scientist (Time to rank the best ideas to engineer the climate, 29 October 2008) has just echoed the proposal of Philip W. Boyd (Ranking Geo-engineering Schemes, Nature Geoscience, 2008, 1, 26 October 2008, pp 722 – 724) who argues: Geo-engineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate […]
→ read full articleCLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE LIVING ROOM
Anthony Judge,
29 Oct 2008
Quest of an Endangered Species Introduction The debate on climate change has offered many occasions for reference to the proverbial "elephant in the living room". Climate change itself has been seen in this way as an unmentionable feature in a context of efforts to ensure "business as usual". Indicative examples include: · discussion of the […]
→ read full articleSYSTEMIC CRISES AS KEYS TO SYSTEMIC REMEDIES
Anthony Judge,
12 Oct 2008
A Metaphorical Rosetta Stone for Future Strategy? The drama of the financial crisis and "credit crunch" — sufficient cause for grave concern — is presented here as exemplifying underlying cognitive patterns that should be cause for even greater concern. A case is presented here for looking at environmental overshoot "through" the cognitive framework of the […]
→ read full articleCredibility Crunch Engendered by Hope-Mongering
Anthony Judge,
30 Sep 2008
"Credit Crunch" Focus as Symptom of a Dangerous Mindset The drama of the financial crisis and "credit crunch" — sufficient cause for grave concern — is presented here as exemplifying underlying cognitive patterns that should be cause for even greater concern. Much is made of doom-mongering — of which the legendary Greek Casandra is confusingly […]
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