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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

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The green pen is mightier than the polar bear

If the other short stories in Beacons are half as good as Take Notice by Adam Thorpe, then this publishing venture by Stop Climate Chaos will be rewarded.

Published February 25, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, climate activism

Happy days of hunter-gathering

A new book on the role of food in shaping history suggests that stone age man was taller than our modern selves.

Published May 12, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, food security

Trafficking, insurgency and globalisation in India

There are social and economic connections between the Naxalite assault in Chhattisgarh and the unresolved problem of human trafficking of sex slaves to Mumbai. Is globalisation a common contributory factor?

Published April 12, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, globalisation, india, trafficking

Connecting rural India then and now

The closure of the Redcar blast furnace in Teesside is an ironic reversal of colonial power relations between Britain and India. But India’s industrialists cannot rest easy until their wealth stimulates the rural economy.

Published February 22, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, energy for all, india, UK

The Worst Week Ever

This has been a terrible week for climate change campaigners. Should we take our cue from US Senator John Kerry and just avoid mentioning the climate word?

Published January 25, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, climate change, climate politics, uganda, US

Make haste for IPCC Fifth Assessment

Climate change sceptics tell us not to worry so much whilst many respected scientists such as James Lovelock warn that it’s too late. We won’t know who to believe until the science improves.

Published December 29, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, climate science

Public image of aid threatens climate talks

Critics of the aid industry point to Kenya where rampant government corruption has not stopped the aid flowing. If the Copenhagen talks are to succeed, we need more positive attitudes towards aid.

Published November 30, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, books, climate finance, corruption, kenya

Perhaps this happened in other rooms

Daniyal Mueenuddin’s In Other Rooms, Other Wonders is likely to get my vote for book of the year. The publishers have also taken trouble with old-fashioned virtues of design.

Published September 28, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, pakistan

Comparing notes on HIV/AIDS and climate change

The characteristics of HIV/AIDS and climate change could not be more different. But there are remarkable similarities in the reluctance to change human behaviour that both crises have encountered.

Published August 31, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged books, climate change, hiv and aids, US

Time to burst Dambisa’s bubble

Critics of Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid are missing the point. Worse still, by conducting the debate on her territory, they provide fodder for the anti-aid media circus and damage prospects for the Copenhagen climate change negotiations.

Published June 8, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, beta, books, climate change, climate finance

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A blog by Bill Gunyon

Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things