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Waiting to Credit Marvels

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

Tag: safe and just space

Doughnut can ease birth pangs of the green economy

The idea of a green economy has proved to be a reform too far for the Rio+20 summit preparations. Poor countries need solutions that tackle development as well as protect the environment.

Published February 27, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged green economy, planet under pressure, rio+20, safe and just space

Social tolerance may flip before planetary boundaries

The concept of planetary boundaries is helpful for environmentalists but the limits of human tolerance may prove more immediate.

Published November 12, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged planetary boundaries, safe and just space
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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