Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: climate crisis

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Showing posts with label climate crisis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label climate crisis. Show all posts

Thursday, June 25, 2026

To which care/knowledge domain does this video belong?


P.S. There isn't a domain called 'bin' but there is plenty of waste.

There isn't one called denial, or ignorance either, but you will find them in abundance too.

Rest assured (if you still can!) that each domain carries its own truth

Thursday, March 12, 2026

John Gerrard's "Western Flag" 2017

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http://westernflag.johngerrard.net

John Gerrard - Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017

My source: Twitter

Monday, September 15, 2025

The sands of time are running out ...

... ironic, when the place you most
need blue-sky and long-term thinking,
innovation and action is becoming a desert ...

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Image(s) © Harry Haysom

With thanks to HARRY HAYSOM - DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION -
and for being able to edit and apply this work to Hodges' model.

Visiting bookshops regularly, following the media and https://harryhaysom.co.uk/

 - I realise I'm more aware of Harry's brilliant work than I thought.

https://www.instagram.com/harryhaysom

My source: FT Magazine, January 4/5 2025. p.10.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Book - open access: 'Planetary Politics'

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My source: Email EUP.

Lucy Benjamin (2025) Planetary Politics - Arendt, Anarchy and the Climate Crisis. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-planetary-politics.html

Sunday, January 14, 2024

'Slugfields Luxury Prison' c/o Isabel Rock - artist

"In November 2022, I spent a month on remand at HMP Bronzefield for my part in the Just Stop Oil protests on the M25. I was happy to go to prison for something I know is morally right. Drawing in prison became my saviour against the monotony. I rarely draw from life anymore, but we were given a little notebook in our 'welcome' bags of grey tracksuits, pastel pants and toothbrush." p.19.
"This drawing is Slugfields Luxury Prison, (152×120cm) the institutional blue doors, plastic chairs, toilet in the corner and the panoptican architecture mirror that of Bronzefields. It's not quite finished yet, but it's been a cathartic experience to draw some of my thoughts on prison life and incarceration by the state." Instagram (and image source).

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Rock, I., 'Drawn Behind Bars' 
PRINTMAKING TODAY, Autumn 2023, Cello Press Ltd. Volume 32, Issue 127, p.19-21.

With thanks to Isabel Rock.

Wednesday, December 06, 2023

COP 28: The water runs deep and broad - Solastalgia for all?

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climate anxiety

eco grief

... as yet unforeseen impacts ...

[personal and collective]
Raise A Paddle
© Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org
Underwater Cabinet Meeting in the Maldives


political malaise?


"'Solastalgia' was first coined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht almost two decades ago; it is a blend of the Latin word "solacium" (comfort) and the Greek root "-algia" (pain or grief). Solastalgia, argued Albrecht, was a way to convey the idea of distress caused by irreversible environmental transformation. It is 'the homesickness we feel while still at home', he writes."


Where exactly do politicians and capitalists 'live'?


Frankopan, P., How to avert an 'eco grief' epidemic, The Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2023, pp.6-7.

Maldives image c/o:
https://sos.noaa.gov/education/phenomenon-based-learning/underwater-cabinet-meeting/

Raise A Paddle c/o NMS:
https://media.nms.ac.uk/resources/raise-a-paddle-fenton-lutunatabua-350-org

Tuesday, November 07, 2023

Navigating Climate Anxiety - Resurgence & Ecologist magazine

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  Navigating Climate Anxiety - Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 341 • November/December 2023.

'Change' as an urgent need and source of pressure.
Our individual mindset's need to change - is this the (apt) snowball to change our collective (cultural) mindset?

If the spiritual domain which encompasses Hodges' model was truly at 'one' then no change would be needed 'there'? Discuss.

Even as I clear books, journals, papers ... I have bought a copy.

 See also previously: 'holism', 'navigation'.

Friday, October 06, 2023

Committing Ecocide to Hodges' model ...

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Psychological -

 "Shock of the NewS"

Anxiety

Eco-anxiety - Climate anxiety

Anti-natalism




Polly

No planet B


Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities?

How much of Earth's land is ecologically intact, in a pre-industrial and pristine state?

The answer: 3% [Plumptre, et al.].



ECOCIDE

NATURE ...
Higgins


'conscientious protector'
civil disobience


"Such a law would not only seek retribution and deterrence but also draw moral red lines."


civil society





... CRIMES AGAINST


Environmental activism

GENOCIDE

ECOCIDE - as law?

"I will leave the last word to Polly Higgins, a barrister who gave up a career in corporate law to become one of the most effective backers for criminalising ecocide. As she wrote in 2013, 'For now, in law outside of wartime, it is not a crime to cause mass destruction or loss of ecosystems. Our world has normalised... ecocide'." p.24.

"Like laws for crimes against peace, an ecocide law would trace its roots to wartime atrocities, in this case the annihilation of forests in South-East Asia, first by the UK's Royal Air Force during the guerrilla war known as the Malayan Emergency and later by the US Air Force in the Vietnam war. In 1970, the destruction inspired Arthur Galston, a plant biologist at Yale University whose PhD had led to development of agent orange, to coin the word 'ecocide'." p.24.

Plumptre AJ, Baisero D, Belote RT, Vázquez-Domínguez E, Faurby S, Jȩdrzejewski W, Kiara H, Kühl H, Benítez-López A, Luna-Aranguré C, Voigt M, Wich S, Wint W, Gallego-Zamorano J and Boyd C (2021) Where Might We Find Ecologically Intact Communities? Front. For. Glob. Change 4:626635. doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2021.626635

My sources:

Lawton, G. (2021) Crimes Against Nature, New Scientist, 250: 3333. p.24.

Obituaries. Polly Higgins. Register, The Times. May 2, 2019. p.53.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/polly-higgins-obituary-92z6zd3ps

See also:

Eradicating Ecocide (2010).

Earth is Our Business (2012).