Comments on: Capitalism and climate change

By: Climate camp pain

Climate camp pain — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:51:14 +0000

[...] well as facilitating a workshop on class, we also did a re-run of our presentation on climate change and work. It was OK, but I think we could have made the message even clearer – [...]

By: First post on finance

First post on finance — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:47:03 +0000

[...] the pub after our recent talk about capitalism and climate change, discussion turned to money and somebody suggested the universal equivalent is a mutually agreed [...]

By: brian

brian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:02:35 +0000

Just a quick addition to the above. I think we stumbled across a world of confusion with the word ‘work’. I’m sitting here typing this at work – is it ‘work’? When I commute, am I working? Am I at work more on the bus than when I’m cycling? When I rush home to cook tea, is that work? When I help my kids with their homework, is that ‘work’? But I don’t think this confusion is (just) a result of our cack-handed presentation: there is a real blurring of the boundaries between ‘work’ and ‘non-work’. And sometimes being at work is more like living while getting food for tea is closer to factory work…