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A climate change website will deliver daily doses of climate history (including science, politics, protest and technology) over the coming year, with a focus on “so, what do we need to do differently?”
The site, All Our Yesterdays (1), has already been going for a year, and covered topics from environmental racism, to carbon capture and storage technology and also climate protests big and small.
Dr Marc Hudson, who established the site said
“This year there will be over 450 posts, covering years from 1661 to 2022, from Austria to Zimbabwe. These posts will be about ordinary people’s efforts to combat the damage, about shiny promises made – and broken- by politicians, about the hard work scientists have done to figure out what damage our fossil-fuel usage has done and will do.
“My dream is people learn about a tactic that has been used in the past, and then when they see the same tactic being used now by denialists or delayers they can say (and tweet!) “oh, this is just a re-tread of what they did [twenty five/thirty years] ago. ” Or that people use the site to think – on their own and with the friends and colleagues – about how protest groups around climate have tended to go up like a rocket and come tumbling down like a stick.”
Although topics have been chosen for all the days of the year (including Christmas Day), Dr Hudson is keen to hear from anyone who has suggestions for events to be covered.
There is also a Twitter account – @our_yesterdays
Notes for editors
(1) The title is a reference to a line in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth – “all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.“
(2) Dr Marc Hudson is currently a Research Fellow at a UK university. This project is his own personal project. He recently had an article about Extinction Rebellion’s “We Quit” statement on the Conversation website.
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