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Climate change lessons from the Corona crisis
We clearly need to speed up research and testing of the various potential techniques for geo-engineering now Human beings respond well to a familiar crisis, especially if it is also imminent. They don’t do nearly as well when the threat is unfamiliar and still apparently quite distant. Consider our response to...
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Why don’t we get it?
23 May 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
The fantasy life of Jordan Goudreau
15 May 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
Some reasons to hope
08 May 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
Is this crisis really a turning point?
01 May 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
Choosing lives over livelihoods
20 April 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
An opportunity taken in a crisis
07 April 2020 | Gwynne Dyer -
Putting lives above money
02 April 2020 | Gwynne Dyer
Every dark cloud has a silver lining
Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever but it is going to change quite a few things and for the better in some cases They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “...X has changed the world forever.” Or at least they should. Covid-19 is...
Boris’ sinister Coronavirus plan
The problem is that this would kill a great many Britons for nothing if Johnson is wrong — which most experts think he is I must level with the British public. Many more families are going to lose their loved ones before their time,” said British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on...
The way ahead for Israel
Benny Gantz’s willingness to admit Israeli Arabs to the country’s coalition politics is grudging at best. Yet, it might be the Govt that Israel needs Benjamin Netanyahu, or “Bibi” as everyone calls him, is the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israel’s history and still in office although he has failed to win...
Armageddon over migrants nigh
There will never be another year like 2016, when the EU, led by Germany, let more than a million refugees in out of pity over their plight Turkey has opened the floodgates and soon Europe will be drowning in immigrants. “Hundreds of thousands have crossed and soon it will reach millions,”...
Praise, not punish Assange
We don’t always respond to the whistle-blowers’ revelations as fast as they would hope. But they are indispensable to keep the level of deceit down The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up in today’s world. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous...
The war on rationality
Shutting down N-power plants only to replace them with coal burning is the height of illogic. Nobody is as crazy as the Germans and the Japanese Germany and Japan are finally winning a war together. Unfortunately, it is the “war on rationality.” Coal, as everybody knows, is by far the most...
Not another Corbyn please
Jeremy, the English Sanders, put Johnson, Britain’s mini-Trump, back in office. That’s not the outcome the Democrats want in US polls Psephology — the statistical study of elections and trends in voting — is the darkest of the dark arts and you can lose your soul if you delve into it...
