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Waiting to Credit Marvels

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

Tag: globalisation

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

Corporate carbon blackmail is unethical

Big polluting companies in US and Europe are threatening to relocate if the terms of carbon trading schemes meet their disapproval. This is the unacceptable face of corporate blackmail.

Published September 14, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate change, corporate power, globalisation

The paradox of globalisation

Many of us who are critical of the process of globalisation have enjoyed its rewards. But we must speak out on behalf of the poor who continue to get a raw deal.

Published September 7, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged globalisation, poverty reduction
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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