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Thursday, Jan 21
War: justifiable or simply catastrophic?,
The impoverishment of populations and underdevelopment of societies is the seedbed for both local violence and resentment against wealthier countries. Yet global expenditure on the preparation and conduct of war far exceeds spending to address the needs of the poor – who, by Western s...
Tuesday, Jan 5
Can consumers save our climate?,
So what’s behind all of this? Much of the increase in the overall 2009 Greendex scores was due to improvement in the area of housing, where the Greendex measures the energy and resources consumed by people’s homes. Changes in the areas of personal transportation, food and consumer goods p...
Tuesday, Dec 22
2010: global cracks, human prospects,
Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor of political science at the University of Toronto Rein Müllerson is rector of the Tallinn University Nord Patrice de Beer is a former Washington correspondent of Le Monde “Brazil’s new political identity” (2 November 2009)
Monday, Jun 15
The politics of climate change, Simon Maxwell
Aim for consensus on long-term objectives, without focusing at all on detail - as in Britain's Climate Change Act (2008), which mandates cuts in overall carbon-emissions without specifying how they are to be achieved Set up independent bodies - such as the committee on climate change,...
Monday, May 18
The human brain - designed for environmental complacency?, Chris Goodall
I don’t want to end on a pessimistic note. Paradoxically, the primary reason for hope is that the deleterious impacts of climate change are already apparently visible. Drought in China, Australia, Spain and the western US may or may not be due to global warming. But humankind has another imp...
Thursday, Mar 19
Democracy-support in a new era, Christopher Hobson Milja Kurki
Second, the rising problems facing liberal-democratic states and models may make it worthwhile - perhaps essential - to consider democratic alternatives. The acute issues of global warming and ecological degradation illustrate this. It is becoming clear that existing liberal-demo...
