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This graphic demonstrates why each COP must be evaluated relative to the task or effort required from that moment, NOT by a simple comparison to previous COPs. And that is why it is ridiculous to listen to self-congratulations about the first admission of the need to transition from using fossil fuel in energy systems inContinue reading “Don’t COP It Any More: Make 2024 count!”

I sent the below letter to First Nations friends, mostly from my youth, and asked they circulate it ahead of my launch of “Alter Edgo and His Bloody Woke Kid” as an attempt to minimise retraumatisation from the content in the series. I was deeply gratified to receive all supportive responses… First Nations people inContinue reading “Letter To First Peoples of Australia”

Imagine you are a pilot – a good pilot – but you know next to nothing about the mechanics and engineering of a plane. You are on a remote island which is the site of an airplane servicing facility with 100 airplane engineers and mechanics and one other pilot.  A tsunami alert has been triggered andContinue reading “0.1%”

Elliott opened his eyes one final time, and looked at the world with a loving smile, no doubt noting the ‘Roosevelt weather’ being enjoyed by the bustling humanity outside the window of his Scottsdale home, long jet streaks visible across an azure sky. He gently squeezed Patricia’s hand before his own softened and his ultimateContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 6 – “Roosevelt Weather””

In the movie “Along Came Polly” Rueben Feffer’s Dad did not say a lot, but when he did, he nailed it. The question has always been how to establish a mindset whereby ‘the ride’ can be enjoyed because throughout human history it has been understood that some who would appear to have so little reasonContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 5 – “There is no point in going through all this crap if you’re not going to enjoy the ride””

A Father and Son Fireside Podcast In a warm setting reminiscent of the sitting room in the Roosevelt’s Hyde Park estate, fire burning comfortingly behind them, a father sits talking with his middle-aged son, a conversation so evocative that occasional footage of actual recorded history or animation of concepts occasionally filters through their mind. TheContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 4 – A Future Of Our Own Making”

Harry Truman, who had been Vice President for all of 82 days on the 12th of April 1945, had just adjourned the day and was sharing a drink in the office of the House Speaker when he got an urgent call to immediately go to the White House. Once there Eleanor Roosevelt informed him thatContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 3 – Reset”

During a business trip to New York in June 1940, Elliott stopped over in Washington to stay with his parents in the White House. Over breakfast Elliott pressed his Dad about business taxes, but for both men their minds were really on other business. The American press had speculated all through Spring on whether FDRContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 2 – Rementar”

The timeline commences in the late 1930s, as America and the rest of the world struggle to emerge from the depths of the Great Depression, and is told through the eyes of Elliott Roosevelt, the son of perhaps the greatest American President in Franklin Delano Roosevelt immortalised simply as ‘FDR’. “The country needs and, unlessContinue reading ““Reset”: Chapter 1 – Rücksetzen”