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Tasty paradox

We’re still editing the draft scenarios, which is stimulating and tricky, like all the best tasks. We’ll be talking about them here very soon: in the meantime, here’s a tiny injection of the sort of thing we won’t be talking about (at least, not right now):

Today for lunch we had Cream of Itself Soup. [...]

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Drowned World on BBC 7

While we’re putting together the scenarios from the last meeting of the BCH Advisory Group, here’s a more involved future world: JG Ballard’s Drowned World on BBC7 (UK only, available till Sunday). Published in 1962, it’s worth attention as a source for another mythic strand to draw on in response to a warming climate: it’s [...]

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Thinking differently without waiting for disaster

Well. That was pretty exhilarating. We’ve just had the privilege of spending three days in the Cotswolds with our Expert Advisory Group, laying out the structure of the three worlds that form the basis of our BCH scenarios. We’ll share more detail about these scenarios in a later post: this is just a short note [...]