This is the title of a 1979 paper by Yale's CE Lindblom in Public Administration Review. An abridged version is here, c/o Google. It is an argument for disjointed instrumentalism as the preferred policy option. I thought it a great read when I first came across it in the 1990s – and the title is fabulous. Please enjoy whilst I am away.
Here's a rather impassioned article from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit [ECIU] about the significance of the UK's ~1% on-shore [*] contribution to global emissions. It's the Tesco argument. It essentially says that although 1% is small compared with...
Our World in Data [OWD] reports that a 2024 study in Nature Climate Change asked around 130,000 people if they’d be willing to give at least 1% of their income to tackle climate change, and that, across a 125-country sample,...
Did you see the launch last week of the ‘tracked changes’ sustainability review – The Primary Curriculum for a Changing Climate – by academics, teachers, and teacher educators? This is the project's latest phase. We heard from students, teachers, and...