Day 3 of the Climate Risk Summit, focused on communicating climate risk. Liz Bentley of the Royal Meteorological Society kicks off emphasising the need to tailor across sectors and contexts ... #COP26Universities #COP26 ... and the tension between needing to deliver a clear message, and the fact that oversimplifying can cause more problems than it solves.

Is there ever a situation where the approach is, "We're too holistic and joined up here! What we need is fewer partnerships and less communication among stakeholders!" I'm kind of serious ... ... not to say that calls for greater cooperation are mere platitudes; they identify that a lack of cooperation is more significant for some problems more than athors, and they set up the real content, which is an account of who should cooperate more closely and how.

Excited for Day 2 of the #COP26Universities Climate Summit. First up, Kirstie Ebi, Professor of Global Health, University of Washington, on "melting humans" (that's my summary, not hers) ... ... yesterday we heard the projection that we are headed to ten million deaths by heatwaves per year by the 2030s. chathamhouse.org/2021/09/climat…

IN ARMS is a novelette I wrote about awkward first dates, collapsing marine ice and submerged cities, AI senators, activism futures, laws about LAWs, parecon, and Beyond Beyond GDP. drive.google.com/file/d/1WREQnI… It was originally part of the fabulous GROSS IDEAS: Tales of Tomorrow's Architecture, ed. @eddieramones @PhinHarper and @Mariaisasmith, architecturefoundation.org.uk/writing/gross-…

Tipping points are large transitions to new system equilibriums. Antarctic sheet disintegration and the mass flooding of coastal cities, the destabilisation of the South American monsoon system, collapse of Amazon rainforest resilience, coral reef death ... ... the disintegration of the entire pattern of water flow throughout the oceans of the world. Rachel Warren, Nik Boers, Sebastian Rosier, Levke Caesar, at the #COP26Universities network Climate Risk Summit, exploring tipping points.

At the #COP26Universities Climate Risk Summit, enjoying the first panel on risks and attribution of extremes in a changing climate. digitalevents.uk/climaterisksum… We have known for a very long time that one manifestation of climate change will be extreme weather events. What has changed is that we now see them happening. They are "in your face."

In some historic moneys, every 80 counted is rounded up to 100. So one transaction valued at 100,000 shells 'really' only transfers 64,000 shells, whereas 100,000 transactions of one cowry each would transfer all 100,000. Any guesses how such a convention alters market structure? All else being equal, perhaps it favors the elite who are rich enough to deal in more expensive goods or in bulk when it's advantageous? But also encourages distribution via many small transactions, such as are associated with subsistence and more ‘everyday’ consumption?

Live-tweeting thread of a talk by Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting

https://twitter.com/reproutopia/status/1361815511164719106

That is @vicky_ACAB ...

To be fair, I don't think the FT is one of the worst UK newspapers. (The worst is probably The Guardian, positioning itself as the genteel voice of the left and then falling in line at election time when parliamentary social democracy gets anywhere near wielding state power) ...

A memorial games jam for David Graeber: itch.io/jam/intergalac… "The theme: 'live as if you were already free.' Make a game jam inspired by David Graeber's work, by anarchism, by revolutionary hope." I'm going to thread a few relevant resources! David Graeber talks about Douglas Adams's Restaurant at the End of the Universe: economicsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2016/06/adams-…