George Monbiot with a nice exercise in how changing our vocabulary can help reframe the way we talk and think about impending environmental Armageddon
![Monbiot's old terms and new terms](https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/monbiot-language.jpg)
I just installed Unpaywall. Fab extension to Chrome that finds you the ungated version of any academic paper. Open Access rocks.
I’ve also got a proper podcast channel now, check out the latest interview with Yuen Yuen Ang and tell your podcast-y friends.
Nudge unit/behavioural economics hype curve update: a new survey found that of the 111 identified OECD government policy nudges, a good chunk weren’t behavioural at all, at least half did not work as intended, and only 18 percent were put into practice. ht Chris Blattman
Climate change timeline
![Climate change timeline](https://frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Climate-change-timeline.jpg)
Trevor Noah with some great stand-up riffs on the nonsensical Caravan story
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Poor Brazil…..
An ex-CIA undercover agent with the memorable name of Amaryllis Fox on what she learned – ‘everyone thinks they’re the good guy’. And an Al Qaeda prisoner quoting Hollywood at US interrogators – ‘you are the Empire, we are Luke and Han’. ht Jo Rowlands