Richard Douglas
@maitrereynard.bsky.social
Research Fellow, Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, University of Surrey. Wombles. Yes, and armchair Spurs. Go Thorns. Commanders. Trying to see the positives. https://cusp.ac.uk/about/fellowship/r_douglas/
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The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity
Since the Limits to Growth report was published in 1972 it has been widely known that a commitment to endless growth was putting us on course for environmental disaster—so why have we failed to take d...
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In my new book, The Meaning of Growth - published 30 September by @routledgebooks and featuring a foreword by @timjackson.org.uk - I investigate the roots of the political resistance to environmental science and policy, and suggest a new approach to overcoming it. www.routledge.com/The-Meaning-...
Join me (@cusp.ac.uk), @hannahmerich.bsky.social (@chrleft.bsky.social & @theosthinktank.bsky.social), and Andrew Hines (@coventrycathedral.bsky.social) on Thursday 4 December at 6pm GMT:
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November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Join me (@cusp.ac.uk), @hannahmerich.bsky.social (@chrleft.bsky.social & @theosthinktank.bsky.social), and Andrew Hines (@coventrycathedral.bsky.social) on Thursday 4 December at 6pm GMT:
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Bruce Hornsby turns 71 today.
Of “The Way it Is”, he said: “I grew up in Virginia, and you could still feel the old lines — racial lines, economic lines — running through everyday life. The lyrics came from seeing those things .. I wasn’t trying to preach; I was just writing down what I saw.”
Of “The Way it Is”, he said: “I grew up in Virginia, and you could still feel the old lines — racial lines, economic lines — running through everyday life. The lyrics came from seeing those things .. I wasn’t trying to preach; I was just writing down what I saw.”
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Bruce Hornsby turns 71 today.
Of “The Way it Is”, he said: “I grew up in Virginia, and you could still feel the old lines — racial lines, economic lines — running through everyday life. The lyrics came from seeing those things .. I wasn’t trying to preach; I was just writing down what I saw.”
Of “The Way it Is”, he said: “I grew up in Virginia, and you could still feel the old lines — racial lines, economic lines — running through everyday life. The lyrics came from seeing those things .. I wasn’t trying to preach; I was just writing down what I saw.”
Dear UK Civil Service,
Please, I beg of you, stop using ’Minister Surname’ in official communications (as well as informal conversations).
Yours faithfully,
Citizen Douglas.
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Please, I beg of you, stop using ’Minister Surname’ in official communications (as well as informal conversations).
Yours faithfully,
Citizen Douglas.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Open letter from DESNZ and Ofgem: expectations and ambition for Connections Reform to deliver Clean Power 2030
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November 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Dear UK Civil Service,
Please, I beg of you, stop using ’Minister Surname’ in official communications (as well as informal conversations).
Yours faithfully,
Citizen Douglas.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Please, I beg of you, stop using ’Minister Surname’ in official communications (as well as informal conversations).
Yours faithfully,
Citizen Douglas.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Come for the horrific AI Christmas illustration with demonic snowmen and magical creatures.
Stay for the deliberate dehumanization of people, even for Christmas.
Stay for the deliberate dehumanization of people, even for Christmas.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Come for the horrific AI Christmas illustration with demonic snowmen and magical creatures.
Stay for the deliberate dehumanization of people, even for Christmas.
Stay for the deliberate dehumanization of people, even for Christmas.
Enjoyed this discussion on Clare Carlisle’s new book very much.
What does “transcendence” mean? And how does it relate to "ordinary" human life? Join me in conversation with biographer and philosopher Clare Carlisle here: tinyurl.com/6vkjaztp
What can a life tell us about transcendence?
Podcast Episode · Reading Our Times · 11/11/2025 · 44m
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November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Enjoyed this discussion on Clare Carlisle’s new book very much.
The 4 Cs, that's what Labour needs to focus on: Calmness, Competence, Care, and Communication - of its values and achievements. That's what any Labour leader needs to promise and deliver.
Calm, competent care is what Labour’s real pledge to the electorate was all about. That’s what they need to worry about going back on.
November 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
The 4 Cs, that's what Labour needs to focus on: Calmness, Competence, Care, and Communication - of its values and achievements. That's what any Labour leader needs to promise and deliver.
Seems a good moment to enjoy the best football single ever recorded, written by the great BA Robertson.
youtu.be/gmzDOqUdu8A?...
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Scotland World Cup Squad 1982 - We Have A Dream
YouTube video by Hannah McLachlan
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November 19, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Seems a good moment to enjoy the best football single ever recorded, written by the great BA Robertson.
youtu.be/gmzDOqUdu8A?...
youtu.be/gmzDOqUdu8A?...
The way this fella’s belting out the Albanian national anthem it’s almost making me feel proud to be an Albanian myself.
November 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The way this fella’s belting out the Albanian national anthem it’s almost making me feel proud to be an Albanian myself.
Oh well. Watched the highlights and it wasn’t even close. Well done to the @thornsfc.com for getting there, though.
November 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Oh well. Watched the highlights and it wasn’t even close. Well done to the @thornsfc.com for getting there, though.
Can’t be as bad as those JJ Abrams reboots, whatever this is like. Never seen any films so ruined by such terrible casting.
Another Trek movie project!
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
With the Paramount regime change, it could be serious this time... Or not 🖖
The good news?
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves) will write and direct a movie that is said to be unconnected from anything previously done. 🙏
New ‘Star Trek’ Movie in the Works From John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein
The 'Dungeons & Dragons' filmmakers will create a project unrelated to previous incarnations.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can’t be as bad as those JJ Abrams reboots, whatever this is like. Never seen any films so ruined by such terrible casting.
Scrolling through, and I misread the first bit of a post as saying a growing number of Republicans were planning “to vote to release the flies”, and in today’s dystopian timeline I was ready to believe it.
November 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Scrolling through, and I misread the first bit of a post as saying a growing number of Republicans were planning “to vote to release the flies”, and in today’s dystopian timeline I was ready to believe it.
It didn’t ‘define the election for the public’. The election was defined by wanting to vote the Tories out of office. This tax pledge was not why anyone voted Labour. The real (unspoken) pledge Labour made was not to be a bunch of chaotic rule-breakers who couldn’t be trusted to run the government.
Too much analysis was still treating breaking the tax pledge as “just another unpopular decision” rather than recognising consequence of breaking a promise which defined an election for the public. If is correct the govt won’t now break it they may have avoided a deeply scarring loss of public trust
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It didn’t ‘define the election for the public’. The election was defined by wanting to vote the Tories out of office. This tax pledge was not why anyone voted Labour. The real (unspoken) pledge Labour made was not to be a bunch of chaotic rule-breakers who couldn’t be trusted to run the government.
I'll be giving a talk with @williamtemplefdn.bsky.social on 4 December: 'The Third Dimension of Our Environmental Crisis'.
Join us online 4 December, 6–7.15pm GMT for free
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Join us online 4 December, 6–7.15pm GMT for free
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The Third Dimension of Our Environmental Crisis: Time for Public Theology
Join Dr Richard McNeill Douglas in exploring why we have failed to act on the warnings made by environmentalists five decades ago.
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November 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
I'll be giving a talk with @williamtemplefdn.bsky.social on 4 December: 'The Third Dimension of Our Environmental Crisis'.
Join us online 4 December, 6–7.15pm GMT for free
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
Join us online 4 December, 6–7.15pm GMT for free
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-third-...
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Honoured that @timjackson.org.uk has written this wonderful Foreword to this book!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Honoured that @timjackson.org.uk has written this wonderful Foreword to this book!
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The Quest for Prosperity | @timjackson.org.uk’s Foreword for @maitrereynard.bsky.social’s new book The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
The Quest for Prosperity | Tim Jackson's Foreword to Richard Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth
This is an amended version of Tim Jackson's Foreword for Richard McNeill Douglas' new book The Meaning of Growth—Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric an ...
cusp.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The Quest for Prosperity | @timjackson.org.uk’s Foreword for @maitrereynard.bsky.social’s new book The Meaning of Growth: Anti-Environmentalist Rhetoric and the Defence of Modernity. → cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
cc #Postgrowth #LimitsToGrowth #Progress #Modernity #ProsperityWithoutGrowth
Watching Olivia Moultrie develop into a world class talent has been one of my favourite things in football this year.
Olivia Moultrie with an inch perfect pass to find Reilyn Turner 📐
Portland takes the lead in the Quarterfinals! #NWSLPlayoffs
Portland takes the lead in the Quarterfinals! #NWSLPlayoffs
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Watching Olivia Moultrie develop into a world class talent has been one of my favourite things in football this year.
Er… @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social WHAT is going on?
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Er… @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social WHAT is going on?
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any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
"Rooftop solar is spreading fast in Jamaica, and people with panels got their power back almost immediately. The ‘entire neighborhood benefits,’ one resident said."
Jamaicans Have Been Turning to Solar Power. It Paid Off After the Storm.
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
any policies that impede the uptake of solar impede resilience
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This week in 1986:
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
This week in 1986:
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
Marco Van Basten and one of the greatest volleys since records began.
Holy Scissorbastard. What a goal.
This is the biggest point: no one can say what all these new data centres are *for* - other than the vaguest idea that this is the future and we have to keep up.
^^ The effect we're seeing in regions w/ high DC development is that extremely important demand growth, like electrification, or trying to keep people alive during fossil-fuel-caused heatwaves, has to compete with computer buildings that operate with zero clarity or obvious purpose, beyond slop
November 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
This is the biggest point: no one can say what all these new data centres are *for* - other than the vaguest idea that this is the future and we have to keep up.
Off and on over the past couple of years I’ve been working my way through all the old Dr Who episodes from the beginning. This week it was time to say goodbye to Jon Pertwee.
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BBC One - Doctor Who (1963–1996), Season 11, Planet of the Spiders: Part 1
The Doctor receives a mysterious package from his old companion, Jo Grant.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Off and on over the past couple of years I’ve been working my way through all the old Dr Who episodes from the beginning. This week it was time to say goodbye to Jon Pertwee.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Oh the Traitors - I thought for all the world that final episode was going to be an anticlimax. But how wrong I was. It kept delivering right to the end. What television.
November 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oh the Traitors - I thought for all the world that final episode was going to be an anticlimax. But how wrong I was. It kept delivering right to the end. What television.