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

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Solar Farms: the revenge of Gen Z?

Covid has accelerated intergenerational inequality. Young climate activists could back UK proposals to expand solar farms, defying Baby Boomer objections.

Published December 20, 2020
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged inequality, solar farms

Sustainable inequality looms over Rio+20

Professor Richard Wilkinson and Dr Mamphela Ramphele spoke about global inequality this morning at the Planet Under Pressure 2012 conference. We know that it’s a big problem with few easy answers in the context of sustainable development.

Published March 28, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged inequality, planet under pressure

Scratching the surface of inequality

Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it’s a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities.

Published April 27, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged beta, global divide, inequality, UK
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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