Paul Jay of the Real News says we are in trouble He is right of course but there is more to it…I watch the cars crawling thru the city in the oppressive heat and think how temporary, foolish and illusory all this fossil fuel consumption is: it is just plain stupid. But then I have… Continue reading Can we get out of trouble?
Category: Good News
China and a Carbon Tax
Gwynne Dyer writes that the Chinese government is to impose a carbon tax. This has to be very good news indeed: it will put pressure on every government that has avoided action using the excuse that China has not moved seriously on the question. It is a matter of survival for the Chinese as it… Continue reading China and a Carbon Tax
(de)Occupy – many demands
About a month ago when all the demands were being made by the media to know the “demands” of the Occupy Movement I wrote these which are really my own demands. I still think they may be quite good apart from one rather glaring omission which I will add now by saying that we should… Continue reading (de)Occupy – many demands
Good news story – Migrants bring new life to a village in southern Italy
This story from southern Italy in the Guardian stands out from most of the recent stories we get about the treatment of refugees from Africa.