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Did you hear the $40 billion joke about people, planet and profit?
Did you hear the $40 billion joke about people, planet and profit? We need to restore biodiversity and reduce global emissions on the planet. People need to change behaviours to help this to help themselves. But perish the thought that such trifling matters should get in the way of profit. It’s a joke. P.S. If… Read more
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Mobility dynamics: trend reversal or retracement?
“Changing mobility” – it was Phil Goodwin some years ago who highlighted the double meaning of ‘changing’ in a phrase like this (one of many insights from Phil that have stuck with me). It can be an adjective (mobility is changing) or a verb (mobility can be changed). The fact that mobility is changing points… Read more
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The earth has all the time in the world and we don’t
“The Earth has all the time in the world and we don’t.” Three years ago next month I was sat in an office on Broadway in New York watching footage on my laptop of one of my heroes, Greta Thunberg, addressing up to 30,000 people in Bristol, the home of my university. It was the… Read more
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First they came for…
It is quite chilling to read of such developments below – a “First they came for…” sensation. I find myself once again oscillating between chasing deadlines amidst a pile of day-job work and opening my eyes wide in shock at what is happening around us. “They shouted up: ‘If you don’t come down and open… Read more
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Greta versus Fossil Fuel – a poem from Chat-GPT
On the day Greta has been charged with a public order offence having protested outside the three-day Energy Intelligence Forum (formerly called the Oil and Money conference) I asked Chat-GPT to write a poem… Greta vs. Fossil Fuel In a world where profits reigned supreme,The fossil fuel giants lived their dream,Drilling, burning, with no remorse,For… Read more
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New introductory video for the Triple Access Planning Handbook (and Copilot’s attempt to distinguish between TAP and traditional transport planning!)
I wanted to know what AI makes of Triple Access Planning. Having asked Copilot to provide concise definitions of transport planning and of TAP it then suggested I ask it “How is Triple Access Planning different from traditional transport planning?”. Here’s the answer it gave. Triple Access Planning (TAP) diverges from traditional transport planning in… Read more
What the hell is going on? 