Next Thursday – March 26th – at 6.15pm, Dr Andrew Boswell is giving a talk at the Royal Society of Chemistry on “Carbon Capture or Carbon Fiction? Science, Policy, and the UK’s Methane Blind Spot“.
The talk will be livestreamed. It would be good to see you in
If you live in the London area (the talk is at Burlington House, central London).
The talk will introduce new material from Boswell’s work on the UK policy framing of Carbon Capture, supporting the call from campaigners for an evidenced based review of UK (and global) CCS policy.
Please forward on to colleagues who may be interested.
So, presumably a Swedish journalist travelling around British coal fields in the 1920s and wondering about global warming will have been influenced by Svante Arrhenius, the Swedish scientist who’d done the calculations about what carbon dioxide build-up would mean in 1895 as a way of distracting himself from a messy divorce.
But maybe not. Maybe Lotka (see footnote)? In any case, all will be revealed by Andreas Malm (for it is he), this coming Thursday, in Bloomsbury, London.
Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up A Pipeline: learning to fight in a world on fire, discusses British histories of coal intertwined with Swedish working-class literature in the 2024 Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture.
In 1928, a young Ivar Lo Johansson, soon to become the leading Swedish working-class novelist, published what might have been the first consistently dire warning about the climatic effects of large-scale coal combustion. It was included in a book of reportage about life in the British coal districts. What led Lo Johansson to his precocious prediction? This lecture will trace the intersecting paths of subaltern wilderness politics and early climate science in the Swedish movement of working-class literature in general and the works of Lo Johansson in particular.
Andreas Malm is associate senior professor of human ecology at Lund University, Sweden. His latest books, both out from Verso in October, are The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth and, written with Wim Carton, Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown.
For information contact Katy Pettit k.pettit@bbk.ac.uk
Below is a press release. Please post it to any journalists you know, on list-servs etc etc.
There’s an interview with Ro Randall about this here.
Psychologists launch “Living with the Climate Crisis” project
For immediate release
On Monday 17th April psychologists, psychotherapists and activists come together to launch a new resource to help people cope with – and do something about – climate change. The Living with the climate crisis (1) project will be launched at 19.00 online. The project provides supportive group settings where people can explore their feelings of anxiety, grief and despair, talk about what to do and plan for action that is personally sustainable.
One of the project’’s authors, psychotherapist Ro Randall said:
“The climate crisis affects us all and produces powerful emotional reactions. These groups will help people find their way through the maelstrom of painful feelings and support them in taking part in those actions – politically, in their communities and amongst their friends and families – that feel right for them.”
The Living with the climate crisis materials are released under a creative commons licence by the Climate Psychology Alliance (2) and the hope of the authors is that these will be adapted for local circumstances. Further support will be available to facilitators and community groups who take up the project.
Living with the climate crisis launched online at 7pm on Monday 17th April. People can sign up via the following link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-living-with-the-climate-crisis-tickets-576956631817
Climate Psychology Alliance was established in 2010. It is a diverse community of therapeutic practitioners, thinkers, researchers, artists and others. Its members believe that attending to the psychology and emotions of the climate and ecological crisis is at the heart of their work. Its website is at https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/
