{"id":8262,"date":"2023-02-13T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:11:21","slug":"and-was-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-poly-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2023\/02\/13\/and-was-there-light-at-the-end-of-the-poly-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"And was there light at the end of the (poly) tunnel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thriving in the Anthropocene\u00a0was the focus of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/thriving-in-the-anthropocene-the-critical-transition-issues-tickets-503277014097\">on-line I-SEE seminar<\/a>\u00a0on February 7<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at the University of Bath. \u00a0It was presented by Mike Berners-Lee, Director of\u00a0<em>Small World Consulting <\/em>andthe author of,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheresnoplanetb.net%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cedswahs%40bath.ac.uk%7Cdbe5b08d90174da17cb108daf21aa6f6%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C638088493530736206%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kJAfWAN2xmWWJ3UuothqVShJGbvmBEn%2BoOSCXL%2FZfs8%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblackwells.co.uk%2Fbookshop%2Fproduct%2F9781788163811%3FgC%3D5a105e8b%26gclid%3DCj0KCQiA3smABhCjARIsAKtrg6KELfFPnBFTJhVmAkM_ypvZdyQfkbbwdFbbBlB6wkIPei8Bnm1a4MUaAsBvEALw_wcB&amp;data=05%7C01%7Cedswahs%40bath.ac.uk%7Cdbe5b08d90174da17cb108daf21aa6f6%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C638088493530736206%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=u466pONAhQ9VdMGaoO0pHHk7wg5r5tI6l%2FaJypOovXE%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How Bad Are Bananas? The carbon footprint of everything<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Berners-Lee writes:<\/p>\n<p>\"Through our rising energy supply and technological advances, our species has created the Anthropocene: a completely new context in which to operate. \u00a0The science tells us clearly that we are accelerating into a poly-crisis, but we haven\u2019t yet found how to apply the brakes. \u00a0This talk looks at why and explores the critical leverage issues for anyone wanting to be part of the solution.\"<\/p>\n<p>It occurred to me to wonder whether, if there is a poly-crisis, there is also a poly-tunnel. \u00a0And if so, should we be looking for light at the end of it? \u00a0I went along (metaphorically speaking) to find out, but came away empty-minded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thriving in the Anthropocene\u00a0was the focus of the on-line I-SEE seminar\u00a0on February 7th\u00a0at the University of Bath. \u00a0It was presented by Mike Berners-Lee, Director of\u00a0Small World Consulting andthe author of,\u00a0There is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or...<\/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-8262","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\/8262","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=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}