He often writes about things I feel strongly about - and more effectively than I do, I think. Please do read what he has to say!


Carbon footprint reductionThere is no magic bullet, no single thing that can replace all our fossil fuel combustion at a stroke. We can't swap our fossil fuel consumption for something less harmful completely, immediately.Carbon footprint reduction
It would be good if we could do it really quickly, but we can't. If we simply stopped using fossil fuels at a stroke, one of the results would be deaths on a massive scale, from cold, thirst, hunger - and violence. This could be as bad as what we're trying to prevent! We could stop some of our more frivolous uses of fossil fuels pretty quickly without replacing them, but mostly we have to develop replacements and gradually reduce fossil


War in the heart of IndiaEven in India this war receives little attention in the media; outside India scarcely anyone is aware of it at all.War in the heart of India
War? I can't call it anything else.
It's happening in the districts of Bastar and Dantewada, in the south of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. These are remote rural districts, and the traditional home of various Adivasi tribes. Adivasi is a Hindi word that translates pretty nearly to Aboriginal, or Indigenous and many of the Adivasi folk are fiercely proud that they're the original inhabitants of India, even if they are now mainly driven back into remote, inaccessible regions. The two districts
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