Color Me Skeptical
Will every conservative in the #NeverTrump movement please step forward to collect your participation trophy? Don’t get me wrong — it is commendable that some members of the GOP...
Tag: climate change
Must reads: MH370, Trump Magazine, Rio, Yellow Fever, and Fiction
Happy Monday, gentle readers! It's been quite a weekend of excitement in Rio and beyond, so let's take a look at some of the stories that are getting us excited (or horrified, or fascinated) this...
Is Climate Change Affecting Suicide Rates?
Every 40 seconds one person commits suicide. Only in the past 45 years the world has turned 60 per cent more suicidal than it used to be. Unemployment, low income, age (over 45), low social status,...
The Impact of The Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical
Popes of the Catholic Church often issue encyclicals – policy pronouncements that declare the future directions of the church as regards one particular social, economic or political arena. It is a...
Is contemporary art effective in spreading awareness of climate change?
When I was in primary school, one of my first concerns was to save lynxes from extinction. There were no lynxes in the Italian costal town I used to live in - at the time I thought because they...
Why Obama and His GOP Rivals Should Be Talking about Foreign Policy even though ‘Americans Don’t Care’ about It
“Americans don’t care about foreign policy.” It’s a truism that has shaped presidential campaign rhetoric for both the Democrats and Republicans this year. It is also why, we are told,...
Foodpocalypse Now: how climate change will affect food production
Global temperatures are rising, and they're bringing global food prices along with them. The last year has seen massive flooding in Pakistan and Australia, alongside devastating drought in China and...
Climate Change, Consumerism and the Working Class
I am volunteering for an environmental justice organization in a large northern city. This group works on environmental health issues with the city’s poor, mostly African-Americans and Puerto...
Tony Abbott and the Liberals: Truthiness Down Under
The American satiric comedian Stephen Colbert famously introduced the word “truthiness” into the contemporary English lexicon. Dictionary Merriam Webster named it their Word of Year in 2006,...
Tamsin Omond: Not 4 Sale, not well organized either
“There’s this thing, it’s called Government, and it’s got a hell of a lot of resources and it’s got a lot of people making very important decisions… but those people and those decisions...