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Thursday December 12, 2024
Graham Peebles

  • August 27, 2024

    Inequality fuels violence

    Division between the rich and the rest, between wealthy and poor nations, is not a calm quiet space

  • November 28, 2022

    Copout in Cairo

    As COP 27 drew to a pitiful close with no action on emissions of reparation, I met a friend in a cafe in West London. Distracted by our discussion,...

  • April 27, 2021

    Violence in Ethiopia

    For generations Ethiopia has been governed by intolerant repressive dictatorships that have ignored human rights and ruled through fear. The current...

  • November 23, 2020

    Death and despair

    Grandmothers carrying babies, mothers, children, men young and old with nothing but the clothes on their backs are fleeing fighting in northern...

  • June 16, 2020

    Reinvigorate the UN?

    Whatever corner of the world one happens to live in, the most pressing issues of the day affect everyone. Pandemics/epidemics and the environmental...

  • July 01, 2019

    Hidden plastics

    The plastic contamination of the natural world flows from three main sources: complacency, apathy and ignorance, a poisonous trinity that is itself...

  • January 29, 2019

    Environmental catastrophe

    Restoring the planet to health is the major need of the time; together with a shift in lifestyles, this requires economic systemic change and a...

  • July 03, 2018

    Ignorance is catastrophe

    Tropical rainforests are the lungs of the planet, but an acre of this most precious land is being cleared every second, and it’s increasing: In...

  • April 17, 2018

    A civilisation in collapse

    There can be little doubt that we are living through extraordinary times: barely a week passes without a major event of some kind occurring...

  • August 21, 2017

    A new approach

    Man-made climate change, and the interconnected environmental catastrophe more broadly constitute the most urgent crisis facing humanity. It has...

  • July 11, 2017

    Barbaric tools

    The existence of nuclear weapons is an ugly symbol of the violent consciousness that plagues humanity. Despite tremendous technological...

  • January 15, 2017

    Disastrous 2-degree rise

    Global climate change is the greatest crisis facing humanity, but politicians and the corporations that pull their political strings, continue to...