Witch Weather - Part Four

COP26 begins in two days time.  Are you properly prepared?

Perhaps you think humanity is sleepwalking into oblivion.

What do you know about supply and demand?

How do you usually think about oblivion and the oblivious?

Where is the future ash heap of history likely to be?

Does scarcity scare you and/or encourage you to compete aggressively and/or possibly snobbishly and/or make you question your needs more carefully? 

Perhaps you are scared of the future, or even the present.  You may even be afraid of the past and/or feel you are haunted by it.

How do you assess the narrative of events?

Perhaps your attempts to live simultaneously both ethically and authentically cause you to experience cognitive dissonance.

What do you associate with the colour black?

What do you you know about dark matter and dark energy and darkness more generally?

Perhaps you have been waiting for a ghost to arrive. 

What do you know about black-body radiation?

What do you know about melanism and albinism?

Wonderful witches have been exploring the Twaklinesque hypothesis, which states that a series of large explosions started off the accelerating expansion of the Universe, in much the same way as a series of eruptions of varying power escaping from a volcano.  The explosions may possibly be continuing.

Of course, the Twaklinesque hypothesis is a work of science fiction, at least for now. 

How carefully have you been investigating the fact and fiction of witch weather?

What do you know about the meanings of boon and bane, and in which contexts?

What do you know about Birnam Wood and the Birnam Oak?

What do you know about Dunsinane Hill?

How have you been thinking about one image and another and another and another?

How have you defined witch weather?

What do you know about the real causes of weather events, and the associated problems?

How do you distinguish between the real causes of various events and unjust speculations?

How do you respond when the direction of blame for disastrous events is unfair?

How do you respond when the blame should be directed to particular people and/or particular organisations?

What is your acquaintance with political divination and the dangers associated with it?

What do you know about political pundits, including the Three Witches?

What do you know about political power brokers and kingmakers?

What is the moral purpose of political power, if any exists?

Why do some people seek more than their fair share of political power, even in purported democracies?

And why are the world's politicians behaving as though they should ignore the future and the fate of future generations?

What sort of bard was Shakespeare?

Was he merely a propagandist for his new patron, an insecure king?

What, if anything, is different in the world today than it was in the first decade of the 17th century?

From which texts, and images, have you been learning about history, including the history of politics and literature?

From which texts, and images, have you been learning about the history of weather and climate?

From which texts, and images, have you been learning about landscapes, seascapes and cultures?

How do you distinguish between ambition and revenge?

How do you interpret the word hail in various contexts?

Why are relatively well-educated people still superstitious?

What do you know about Scottish thanes?

What do you know about coups?

What do you know about cosmography and chronology and chronicles?

How are you preparing for COP26?

Perhaps you have been reading Holinshed's Chronicles.

What do you know about climate ambition between one time and another?