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European Carbon Market – It Works!
Carbon markets, often used to describe the trade of carbon credits (mostly trade of voluntary carbon credits), is one of the least understood mechanisms and a polarising topic among climate activists. But Carbon markets are much more than just trade of carbon credit that you might have heard from someone talking about making money by… Continue reading
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Climate Action – Slow and Inadequate
As I interact with people who are not immersed in the climate discourse, it is surprising that they believe that there is ‘too’ much focus on climate action. They believe that with this kind of ‘intense focus’ on climate action, we are already doing a lot and will be able to manage this. Unfortunately, we… Continue reading
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Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life by Luke Burgis
“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”― Friedrich Nietzsche “Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life” is a fascinating dissection of how we desire things or non-things. This book is a great introduction to Rene Girard’s work in general and mimetic theory in specific. Last year, I decided to read… Continue reading
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Two decades of blogging and this blog
Two decades can have a transfigurative impact on our memories. Trivial moments morph into bittersweet nostalgia, while monumental events fade into relics of the past. Starting this blog was one of those seemingly trivial acts back in 2004, but reflecting on its origins and the occasional old posts reveals a montage of life events that… Continue reading
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What I read in 2023
The absurdity of the hope that we will do things differently in the new year than what we did in the year gone by is mindboggling. Yet, hope and optimism force us to persist in our practice of making resolutions. Last year, I had planned to read copiously on the nexus of nature, climate change,… Continue reading
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