Global Inequality

I do not believe in sustainable development, or at least not in what passes today for sustainable development. Ever since this word has come into vogue the environmental situation in the world has worsened. The changing climate due to human activity is plain to see all over the planet: bio-diversity is threatened, more species are […]

At the Gates of Hell

We have entered into the era of climate change, whose consequences we can predict, but perhaps not avoid. The disaster is going to be global. In 20 seconds last Thursday afternoon the electricity, and in many cases the water, went out for 50 million people in the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. Although the […]