Tim Hollo

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Latest post explores the way we’re directed towards fighting about language we can and can’t use instead of actually doing something.

Some love and some loving critique for Rising Tide, contemplating the difference between protest, civil disobedience, and direct action.

What would it mean to become the Rising Tide?

Becoming the Rising Tide The unintentional three week hiatus in publishing here at In Between Days, and the consequent further delay in finishing the promised piece on the necessity and limits of left populism, are (largely) due to my participation in another remarkable, energising but exhausting Rising Tide blockade of the...

Next cat for the pigeons.

I've been threatening to write this for years. Here it finally is.

“One of the results of the entwining of fossil fuels with government and with global finance is that, from the earliest days of the UNFCCC process, its mechanisms and structures have been thoroughly financialised. Emissions trading, project financing, offsets trading, and creative accounting of all kinds have been embedded deeply into the system. Instead of being last resort options to assist difficult-to-abate industries to take part, they have become the core of the whole approach. And they are "mostly bu****it" as Professor Andrew Macintosh says.

“This is why I suggested that claims about emissions growth slowing are difficult to trust. They rely on government goals and reporting that are based on offsets and accounting tricks like those the Australian government has famously been using for years to pretend to be taking action. Counting carbon in trees that will never grow or will definitely die. Bodging up baselines that nobody can trust. "Avoiding" deforestation that everyone knew wasn't going to happen anyway. There's so much bu****it.

“Disentangling the UNFCCC from these non-credible financial and accounting structures now is essentially unthinkable. They are the architecture of the system. Because of this structural reality, success within this system is basically meaningless.”

"Just as communities, acting together in concert for common security, can make the cops obsolete, a globe of communities acting in concert for the climate can make the COPs obsolete."

Read the rest here:
https://in-between-days.ghost.io/all-climate-cops-are-b-stards/

"Net zero" is a signifier with no actual meaning.

And that, of course, is why it is so beloved of the major parties and the press gallery. They can sound serious and committed without actually promising to do anything. Net zero commitment indeed.

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Blogging today on the inanity of politics and the banality of ecocide.

Here, perhaps for the first time ever, we have a piece of writing that includes Sun Tzu, Hannah Arendt, and Nelson Muntz.

I think it says something useful. And I think it is slightly hopeful, at the end.

Governments would literally rather pay a bunch of blokes to destroy magnificent beauty and the lungs of the Earth than do anything environmentalists and scientists call for. No reason. No thought. No discourse. Just “yeah nah”. The whole system is killing us. Time to cultivate the next one.

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt