Richard Douglas
@maitrereynard.bsky.social
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Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey. Wombles. Yes, and armchair Spurs. Go Thorns. Commanders. Trying to see the positives. https://cusp.ac.uk/about/fellowship/r_douglas/
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“The importance of viewing climate denial as a defence of modernity is to understand that anti-environmentalists have got something right: there is something fundamentally incompatible between the idea of environmental limits and foundational aspects of the modern world-view.” My piece in Resilience
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Climate denial and the defence of modernity
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As much as we need policy wonks, scientists, and ...
www.resilience.org
Jane Tranter reacted to Robert Shearman's recent DWM comments as “…really rude, actually, and really untrue.”
“Doctor will be back and everyone, including me, including all of us, just has to wait patiently to see when — and who.”
deadline.com/2025/10/doct...
“Doctor will be back and everyone, including me, including all of us, just has to wait patiently to see when — and who.”
deadline.com/2025/10/doct...
‘Doctor Who’ Producer Jane Tranter Hits Back At “Rude” Writer Who Said Sci-Fi Series Is As “Dead As We’ve Ever Known It”
'Doctor Who' producer Jane Tranter said it was "rude" for witer Robert Shearman to say that sci-fi series is as "dead as we've ever known it."
deadline.com
Oh. I missed this. They are saving God now.
Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."
Climate denial and the defence of modernity www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
Climate denial and the defence of modernity
What we are lacking is an inspiring vision of our lives, collective futures, and spiritual reality in a world in which we cannot keep growing forever. As much as we need policy wonks, scientists, and ...
www.resilience.org
Reposted by Richard Douglas
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
www.theguardian.com
Reposted by Richard Douglas
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."