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

Tag: financial transaction tax

Unfriend the 1000 economists

What could have possessed advocates of the Financial Transaction Tax to engage 1000 economists to sign a letter for the G20 meeting?

Published April 18, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged financial transaction tax, G20

G20 ministers reject calls for climate justice

Proposals for a global financial transaction tax to help the development of poor countries affected by climate change have been ignored by the world’s leading finance ministers.

Published February 21, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate justice, financial transaction tax, G20, yahoo

The shock doctrine of climate activism

Never let a good crisis go to waste is the inspiration of the Robin Hood Tax campaign. Does this imply that climate change campaigners must bide their time until the next Hurricane Katrina?

Published February 15, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged aid, climate change, climate finance, financial transaction tax
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with Winchester Action on the Climate Crisis, Winchester Poetry Festival, City of Winchester Trust and Hampshire Hogs CC. Still playing cricket, fives, 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