Our Entangled Future
Are you tired of doom and gloom stories about our collective future? With climate change affecting people all over the planet and protests over social injustice sweeping the globe, it…
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Being an ethical neighbour in a warming region
Developing massive new coal mines puts Australia at odds with the Paris climate agreement, and puts its regional neighbours in peril, Chris Riedy writes. Imagine this. Your home, the place…
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Where should we look for democracy?
What does democracy look like? When most people think about democracy, they probably think about voting in elections for a politician to represent them in parliament. The politician is then…
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Theories of change
Last week, I wrote a post criticising the climate change communication strategies of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Since then, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role that theories of change play in shaping climate change communication strategies. A theory of change is essentially an idea about how things change in the world. Do you think political leaders make change happen, or do you think mass movements of people lead change? Do you think change is random, chaotic, or predictable? Do you think it happens through incremental improvement, or abrupt transformation? Everyone answers these questions differently and the combination of these answers makes up an individual’s theory of change.
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Climate change is a super wicked problem
In 1973, Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber wrote a paper in Policy Sciences that introduced the term “wicked” problems. Wicked problems are societal problems that lack simplistic or straightforward planning…
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