{"id":7225,"date":"2018-04-17T05:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T05:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7225"},"modified":"2018-04-17T05:58:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T05:58:17","slug":"reading-kate-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/04\/17\/reading-kate-marvel\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Kate Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if Facebook weren't enough, Jonathon Poritt's seminar last week was gloom leavened with a little bit of hope. \u00a0He asked us, in relation to averting the coming climate apocalypse, where we were on a <strong>0<\/strong> totally pessimistic to\u00a0<strong>10<\/strong> wholly optimistic scale. \u00a0The offers from the audience ranged from <strong>2.5 <\/strong>to<strong> 10<\/strong>. \u00a0The bloke at <strong>10<\/strong> said that he had to be at <strong>10<\/strong> because his job needed a positive\u00a0<em>can-do<\/em> attitude. \u00a0I was at <strong>5<\/strong> but only because I refuse to play optimism \/ pessimism games. \u00a0It it had been:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>0\u00a0<\/strong>= unlikely to hold the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees<\/p>\n<p><strong>10<\/strong> = likely to hold the temperature rise to 1.5 degrees<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'd have been at\u00a0<strong>1<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>leaning heavily towards<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>0<\/strong>. \u00a0After all, the Paris Agreement will lead to a ~3.5 degree rise \u2013 even if (a big if as nothing is enforceable) all the pledges are met. \u00a0That must place me with Rupert Read \u2013 in a dark place \u2013 try <a href=\"http:\/\/rupertread.org\/2444-2\/\">this<\/a>\u00a0carbon countdown clock for real gloom.<\/p>\n<p>Given that despair is no good for action, maybe we should all be walking with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marvelclimate.com\">Kate Marvel<\/a>. \u00a0She's a climate scientist, and like Read, she's gloomy, but her writing is poetic and profound. \u00a0I particularly liked <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/kate-marvel-we-need-courage-not-hope-to-face-climate-change\/\">this<\/a> from the\u00a0<i>On Being<\/i> website:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bodyCopy blog__contentBody--33xJK bodyCopy__content--3sM1D\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\"We need courage, not hope. \u00a0Grief, after all, is the cost of being alive. \u00a0We are all fated to live lives shot through with sadness, and are not worth less for it. \u00a0Courage is the resolve to do well without the assurance of a happy ending. \u00a0Little molecules, random in their movement, add together to a coherent whole. \u00a0Little lives do not. \u00a0But <a href=\"https:\/\/onbeing.org\/blog\/beyond-rio-and-halki-climate-change-may-rest-in-engaging-hearts-and-organizing-hands\">here we are<\/a>, together on a planet radiating ever more into space where there is no darkness, only light we cannot see.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blog__section--1MemF\">So. from now on, I'm going to read more Kate Marvel and much less Rupert Read. \u00a0There'll be more about the seminar tomorrow.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if Facebook weren't enough, Jonathon Poritt's seminar last week was gloom leavened with a little bit of hope. \u00a0He asked us, in relation to averting the coming climate apocalypse, where we were on a 0 totally pessimistic to\u00a010 wholly...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}