During the Second World War, Londoners were subjected to a bombing campaign we call "The Blitz". Today, we associate "Blitz Spirit" with high morale, upstand...
Listen to this episode from Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford on Spotify. In a crisis most people respond with decency and solidarity. The bombing of British cities in the Second World War did not cause society to crumble as was expected, but proved instead human resilience. That defiant "Blitz Spirit" is still a source of pride for Britons... but have inconvenient facts about that time been ignored? Alice Fiennes (co-host of the podcast Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper) explains that the chaos and disruption of the bombing allowed some people to commit awful crimes - and especially a trainee RAF pilot who embarked on a vicious killing spree under cover of darkness. Find Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Wow. Good to read. Just hoping they can teach our societies that level of emergency awareness and #BlitzSpirit for immediate CO2 reduction to zero and all the other climate-relevant projects.
One has heating but no water, the other has #water but no heating. Neither has electricity. But both are sitting in a cafe in central #Kyiv with #heating, #electricity and #internet, cheerfully assuring us that it will be over by next Summer and it's time to plan next season's #Fieldwork and how can #Ukraine contribute to meeting @OceanIceEU #science goals?
I think I have just seen what used to be called #BlitzSpirit
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