Special Edition – The Price of Life
Since the last episode of Notes From Underground was published, a lot has happened in the world. As the Coronavirus pandemic reaches into all of our l...
Notes From Underground
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A journey into the deep context of the new climate movements that have surfaced since the summer of 2018: the school strikes movement that started outside the Swedish parliament, Extinction Rebellion closing down bridges and junctions across London, the conversations started by Jem Bendell's Deep Adaptation paper and David Wallace Wells' The Uninhabitable Earth. This essay series by Dougald Hine (co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project) is not a celebration or a critique of these movements, but an invitation to a quieter reflection on where all this is coming from, what it might tell us about the moment in which we find ourselves.
010 – The Cost of Knowing
The climate art of Cape Farewell, Ian McEwan's novel Solar and the oil industry connections of Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand all come unde...
009 – Crossing the Threshold
Even when we know the facts of climate change, we don't seem to act as if we know – that's the observation from the sociologist Kari Norgaard which st...
008 – The Lab and the Play
This week's essay looks at the production of scientific knowledge about climate change and what we do with that knowledge. It's about the history of t...
007 – I Only Have One Prediction for You
What can we say for sure about the future? The seventh instalment of Notes From Underground is about the predicament of mortality and the difficulty w...
006 – The Salvage Work
"I don’t think these are times when you can sell people a vision of ‘how not only can we save the world, but we can make all of our lives better in th...
005 – A Common Indignation
'What happens next may look like failure. Or it may be a success that asks many of the questions failure would have asked of us.'The fifth episode of ...
004 – Emergency Democracy
'When you organise politically to demand a declaration of emergency, you cannot avoid the question of democracy. If such a declaration means anything,...
003 – Is There Hope?
'If there is any hope worth having, in a time when we are rightly haunted by the thought of an "uninhabitable Earth", then I don’t believe it lies in ...
002 – Pulling Out the Tablecloth
'The need for economic growth is a social construct, not a law of nature, but this construct is the tablecloth on which our current society has been a...