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Progress is one of those words nobody ever argues with. Who doesn’t want progress? If a politician promises progress, we applaud. If the economy is progressing, the headlines are positive. If technology is progressing, we’re told life is getting better.  But every now and then, it’s worth stopping to ask… Read more: Progress or illusion? Redefining success on a finite planet 

Climate action is constantly framed as something for later: later policy, later technology, later courage. I suggest we ask what perpetual postponement is costing us.  There is a strange contradiction at the heart of modern society. Most people agree that climate change is real. Most… Read more: The future we keep postponing 

Why do humans struggle to respond to disasters that unfold gradually? I’m taking a deep dive into the psychology of living through a catastrophe that doesn’t arrive all at once. Australians know what an emergency looks like: A bushfire racing across a ridge… Read more: The slow emergency: why humans struggle to respond to gradual crisis 

A year ago, if anyone had said that I would be a published author of an audiobook, read by me, I wouldn’t have believed them. Nah, you’re kidding. It’ll be too hard, too expensive. Paying a pro will cost a packet –… Read more: Producing the audiobook 

If, five years ago, anyone had said that I would be a published author of a novel now, I wouldn’t have believed them. Nah, you’re kidding.  Although I’ve spent my working life in engineering and environmental consulting, dealing with factual stuff, I’ve… Read more: Writing The Fossilarchy