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Climate mega-polycrisis and the Great Mobilisation

Salvaging a survivable climate one Mahurangi Harbour at a time

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Climate mega-polycrisis Great Mobilisation

Winston Churchill inspecting units of the New Zealand Division with, clockwise, Bernard Freyberg, Bernard Montgomery; John Poston, driver

Light the Fuse
Prologue

Cimino | 3 April 2024
Readers of its unedifying history, in millennia to come, will scarcely credit that the Climate Polycrisis took so long to be convincingly named. Successive cohorts of historians will struggle to explain this phenomenon, and labour to quantify quite how critical a lacuna…

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United States Troops, Queen Street, World War II

chapter 8
D-Day of Hope

Cimino | 1 May 2025
Cimino, when reflecting on the vast bulk of his compatriots’ failure to register even a flicker of excitement for the Great Mobilisation, recalls his hideous premonition as to how anthropogenic global heating could all too predictably play out. It was…

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Avspecs Ltd-restored Mosquito—RAF FB.IV night intruder variant, NS838—during flight testing in New Zealand prior to disassembly and shipment to the United States

Thinking outside the 
Three-bedroom-breeding box

Cimino | 11 Jun 2022
Good for absolutely nothing, war is now preoccupying the every waking moment that should be fiercely focussed on the climate emergency. For those born into the post-war optimism of the United Nations, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sharply increased the struggle…

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Climate Politics Still Frozen, Robert Beatty

Honest cop preferable to 
Climate Pearl Harbor

Cimino | 30 Oct 2021
Globally, writers are giving their best shot to the imperative of persuading the Glasgow conference parties that, this time, they must mobilise meaningful climate action. One such writer, the Guardian’s re-wilding guru, George Monbiot, in his masterly eve…

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Avspecs Ltd-restored Mosquito—RAF FB.IV night intruder variant, NS838—during flight testing in New Zealand prior to disassembly and shipment to the United States

More on the climate mega-polycrisis 
and the Great Mobilisation…

Cimino | 17 Sep 2024
Objectively, civilisation is displaying every indication that it could fail to mobilise in the face of the spiralling climate mega-polycrisis at sufficient speed and scale to salvage a survivable climate. Every molecule of effort not  fiercely concentrated the world’s first mega…

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