Jonathan Schofield

Cycling, designing,
coding, over-thinking.
Bit sweary.

A JS who writes JS but prefers CSS.

“The times are urgent.
Let’s slow down.”
—Bayo Akomolafe

Supporting a free, open-source carbon auditing standard: https://www.seethroughcarbon.org/

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2024-09-05 09:28:44

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alternatively… https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/

2024-08-22 07:57:10

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I accept your “perfect should not be” point but here are some alternatives.
Put solar on roofs, every roof, because buildings are infrastructure we generally want to preserve.
Drive down car use through all kinds of policy. And rip up car parks and turn them into urban farming plots, because parking is generally infrastructure we want to be rid of as soon as possible and we’ll need significant space to grow food locally *far* more than we think we do at this point

2024-07-22 13:46:16

I get that money asymmetry in electoral systems has consequences.
But I confess I don’t understand why, just 4 months out from the US election, donations are *sooo* important.
Have these 2 parties not already amassed obscenely huge war chests? Can we not just make it about policies from here on in? Where does the money go?
And if getting elected *requires* a firehose of money isn’t that a really really really bad system?

2024-06-20 16:23:37

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…what is central to his storytelling is to get the *framing* right.
Don’t tell.
Say just enough that the participant asks the question(s) that you want them to ask. That makes them feel insightful.
Here’s how he’s approaching farming with a project called ‘Betting the Farm’ https://seethroughnews.org/how-farmers-reduce-carbon

2024-06-20 16:15:55

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…but those tenets are ideals rather than immovable guard rails.
Here’s an example of a path which leads to holding MPs to account that he’d like to get going https://seethroughnews.org/see-through-games-for-effective-climate-action

2024-06-20 16:10:14

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…
4. Do things that have a measurable outcome so that results can remain a retention / get involved hook

2024-06-20 16:10:01

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at risk of inaccurately summarising him / over-simplifying, his key tenets are:
1. Find thematic entry points that UA (Unwilling Inactivists) feel strongly about – ideally ones that are not obviously to do with decarbonisation
2. Avoid/defer/minimise making the context overtly about decarbonisation as much as possible – and steer clear of political partisanship
3. Entertain / gamify / make fun the nature of the engagement…

2024-06-20 16:00:17

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also perhaps of interest…
A friend of mine has what he calls a “climate action taxonomy”: https://seethroughnews.org/our-target-audience-for-climate-activism
1. Effective activists: ~0.1%
2. Ineffective activists: ~1%
3. Unwilling inactivists: ~75%
4. Willing inactivists: ~24%
and concludes…
“forget #4, target #3, be gentle with #2
I don’t think it’s as clear cut as he does, but I agree about #3 being the opportunity

2024-06-20 15:44:19

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…what I’m trynig to get at is shining a light on the psychology of collective action vs protest

2024-06-20 15:43:32

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This may be off topic but I’d really like to see sentiment analysis of how people feel who have been through any kind of deliberative democractic process to do with the metacrisis and/or communal project such as neighbourhood energy or urban farming
To what extents do they feel empowered, frustrated, scared, hopeful?
How does this vary subject to their starting perspective?

2024-06-20 07:34:25

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🤔 https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112647603837165728

2024-06-20 06:47:05

It is with great sadness that I learn today that after weathering the elements for close to 5,000 years the sarsen stones of Stonehenge have been dissolved by some orange powder
#climateDiary

2024-06-16 08:24:33

Quiz:
what does a furnace in a conventional coal-fired steel works produce most of by weight?
#climateDiary

2024-05-29 10:53:44

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see my last sentence

2024-05-29 10:52:58

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cmd-C, Cmd-V, but yes, kind of. I’m a fool

2024-05-29 10:51:30

I just saw a beige.party poll with 50 ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-choices 🥴

2024-05-25 08:00:06

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My attempt at Tim Garrett’s model in bullet point form:
- everything in life is pushing energy along networks
- all networks are built of matter
- having built a network, there is a corresponding energy demand to keep that network functional
- but networks are always in the process of decay so they always need maintenance and renewal
- too little and it decays, too much and there is a window for growth and for power laws to do their thing
- and here we are
#climateDiary #decroissance

2024-05-25 07:32:12

#climateDiary
#decroissance
This is a fascinating and sobering discussion
https://overcast.fm/+nh1AEbE7s

2024-05-24 07:38:43

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Tactical voting is as nihilistic as AI. Creating false certainties based on the past. Reinforcing the status quo. Entirely unable to imagine the future.
#ge2024

2024-05-24 07:34:30

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You don’t know how anyone else will vote. And after the votes are counted, you don’t know who the party you voted for that you didn’t really want will cosy up with.
#ge2024
Tactical voting sucks

2024-05-24 07:28:00

Not getting tickled
by tactical voting.
Jumping over its
sliding tackle.
Vote for who you want
#ge2024

2024-04-15 11:40:49

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I grew up learning to play Freebird with a friend. I now feel sullied
https://genius.com/Lynyrd-skynyrd-god-and-guns-lyrics
[@nicholas_saunders](https://mastodon.social/@nicholas_saunders) [@PhilipCJames](https://mas.to/@PhilipCJames)

2024-04-15 10:06:38

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good read. It’s an even bigger issue than Jim writes about though
See this thread https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112246136337590311

2024-04-10 08:28:23

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Tech which can just fall over at the slightest push because it works on assumptions about underlying layers which each require more energy than the layer beneath them.
As we move into an era of less energy.
(If you’re paying attention)

2024-04-10 08:14:17

How does one teach resilient tech to a generation where tech has just worked, even as that generation sees that nothing about the social contract that they’ve inherited works?

2024-03-14 18:09:03

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…It might be right in a given instance to say that “worrying about such and such is a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of things”.
But the grand scheme of things is F*CKED
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112095290545697095
And the ocean is made of drops.
And we move from not giving a damn to being effective by actually having any sense at all of LIMITS.
If being frugal with anything helps us get there, even if it’s appplied to the ‘wrong’ things, we begin to begin to begin to be effective
#climateDiary

2024-03-14 17:49:13

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…So, whenever people say:
“We shouldn’t worry about such and such activity” or “Worrying about that is misplaced”
in my mind I hear:
“We shouldn’t worry about abjectly FAILING”.
I really don’t agree.
I think we absolutely should worry, and quit thinking FAFO is remotely OK, and try and be better.
#climateDiary

2024-03-14 17:46:33

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…In 29/35 years after establishing the IPCC – the FAFO years – emissions have gone UP https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions
Of the 5 years when our CO2 emissions went DOWN (plus 1 where they were flat), none of that was *intentional*:
🤦‍♂️ 1992: -2.8% (global recession )
🤦‍♂️ 1998: -0.29% (Asian financial crisis)
🤦‍♂️ 2009: -1.72% (global recession)
🤷‍♂️ 2015: -0.03%
🍊 2016: 0
😷 2020: -5.48% (COVID pandemic)
And across the 34 years shown below, emissions increased by **66%** 😱
#climateCrisis
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/095/264/551/453/425/original/6272b0f768211c37.png

2024-03-14 17:33:18

In the world of human GHG emissions there could be said to be 2 eras:
1. Before IPCC creation in Dec 1988 – let’s call that FOMO
2. After that – let’s call that FAFO (Fk Around Find Out)
During the FOMO era, a handful of people knew and cared and were worried about CO2 output from fossil fuel burning, but we had colonising and worse to do.
In the FAFO era, we’ve had more colonising and exploiting the global south to do, but decided to just call it capitalism…

2023-11-17 13:25:50

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…and right at the centre of the billions of dollars of gas lying off the coast of Israel and Gaza is a British corporate history:
1997: British Gas divests Centrica to become BG plc
1999: BG plc reorganised as BG Group plc and… is granted exploration rights in the Levant basin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamar_gas_field
2007: BG Group brokers an Israel/Palestine gas field deal
2015: Royal Dutch Shell buys BG Group
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/426/067/122/378/031/original/c4fe73903496ffd1.jpg

2023-11-17 12:47:06

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…Less acute than Germany’s daunting energy prospects, the UK is still more than 2 decades into being a net energy importer, and like Germany is having to cement its dependency on the Middle East at a time when that region is in roiling conflict.
Like historical bookends to the conversation, the UK “ended its military presence in the Middle East in 1971” but in 2018 it opened a permanent military base in Bahrain: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-bahrain-military-base-juffair-royal-navy-mina-salman-middle-east-hms-queen-elizabeth-a8291486.html (with Prince Andrew 😬 )

2023-11-17 12:31:36

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…Helen draws threads together such as:
The importance of the Straits of Tiron which lead to Israel’s Red Sea port at Eilat (here’s an October Bloomberg article on that https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-20/israel-oil-the-desert-pipeline-that-keeps-crude-imports-flowing)
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“You have three European countries in the space of the last 3 months that have signed long-term 20-year plus LNG agreements with Qatar: the Dutch, the Italians, and the French. Qatar is at least as important a sponsor, in a way, of Hamas as Iran is.”
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/425/871/888/875/252/original/3bb385e896791ed2.png

2023-11-17 12:18:12

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This was fascinating. Naturally, it treads much of the ground of Helen’s most recent book, Disorder, including how the 1956 Suez Crisis set the scene for the geopolitical era we’ve grown up in.
Helen’s observations around the historical trajectory of relations between Iran and Israel and how that fits into the current Israel/Palestine conflict are especially worth listening to…

2023-11-16 09:06:46

Oh wow. Nate Hagens has talked with Helen Thompson (among other things, the author of ‘Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century’).
This is going to be interesting https://overcast.fm/+2tlXWUOiI