Importantly, net zero has support across age groups and social classes - but there is overwhelming (78%) support among the young.

Politicians and policymakers who fail to address this are abdicating their responsibility to future generations.

This year will mark the 5th or 6th time I've run this game in academic settings and I think it might give me the push to finally set up that sociological board game club I've been threatening.

3) It takes some of the students outside their comfort zone but it a way that isn't competitive (this game is cooperative) and in a way this is still familiar. The purpose of my classes in this course is to get students to think about problems, solutions and problems with solutions.

2) Games also provide critical space to think about the world differently - actions, behaviours, can be broken down, reconceived and subject to scrutiny in a safe space.

I believe this class is important for a number of reasons:

1) in the first place it allows us the space to actually slow down. It means we can think of a learning space in a different way. Play is an important counter to social accelleration.

Remember: universities are not run by scholars. They are run by real estate speculators who always wanted a pretext to do these things.

Humour, self-deprecation, satire, surreal comedy exist on the same aesthetic plane as authoritarianism, bigotry, cruelty.

The political networks of Fox and her 'comrades' in the Revolutionary Communist Party are fascinating. @evansmithhist.bsky.social has written a lot about them.

Let me just say, I also don't think it a coincidence that Goodwin ended up at the University of Kent...

jacobin.com/2023/08/revo...

Also important to add, for those who are interested in the politics of critique, (and relating to the work of @aurelmondon.bsky.social and @aaronwinter.bsky.social) that the original mainstream critique of Goodwin was not that what he was saying was wrong/dangerous but that he was mangling the data.