Welcome to week 04 of “All Our Yesterdays – 365 climate histories.”
Things to be grateful for
a) lovely feedback – including the line “as enchanting as depressing to read,” and promises of support and guest posts
b) beginning to build links with activists and academics (one of the goals of this site, for me)
c) the best day so far for views (but tbh, numbers are nowhere near what I’d hoped for yet. See below)
Now at 127 Twitter followers (thanks to followers – goal remains 2k by the end of the year).
The big thing I clearly have to do is first
a) make some basic graphics – ideally one per blog, but we will see how labour-intensive that is
b) make some basic videos
c) reach out to various groups/mailing lists.
The material, even the brilliant guest posts, will not “sell itself.”
Watch this space…
What you may have missed in the last week on the site
Stuff about the Wake Up the world is Dying protests of 1993 (thanks Hugh Warwick), the attempted silencing of scientists and more.
What I’ve been reading/watching/listening to
I’ve been neck-deep in my day job. That’s involved
a) “attending” various online events (very well-organised they were too)
b) interviewing some seriously brilliant people, then tidying the automatically generated transcripts (shout out to Otter.ai) and doing further research and thinking. That’s not always left huge amount of time for reading.
But this by John Harris, today, was spot on about the feudalism of the UK
What’s coming up in the next week on the site
A brilliant essay by my friend Sakshi Aravind on Environmental Racism then and now, a smart investor despairing of politicians, the problem with holding hands, and “much much more.”
What’s coming up in the next week in the real world