Here's Lester Brown's take: One of the questions I am often asked is, "How many people can the earth support?" I answer with another question: "At what level...
Alex Evans
Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017).
He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development.
Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.
California Dreaming
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKkJB8Etq54[/youtube]
The rather different foreign policy worries of publics and elites
Back in July, Chatham House and YouGov, the polling organisation, published some data on UK attitudes on foreign policy (pdf). There's lots of interesting...
The latest front on scarcity
Here's the NYT's Dealbook column on 11 October: If you care at all about the future of the world’s food supply, you care — whether you know it or not — about...
Introducing… hyperstagflation!
Wondering what the implications are of QE2 (as in Quantiative Easing mark II, not Her Majesty) in the US - whereby the Fed will buy up long-dated government...
The best placard at the Rally to Restore Sanity
H/t Owen Barder. More placards here.
So you want to go to Law School
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Auto-rebuttal of climate sceptics arrives on Twitter
The details, courtesy of Good: Debating climate change can get exhausting, especially when so much of the science is settled. So Nigel Leck, a software...
When life hands you lemons …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpkvBtda3vY[/youtube]
10 key issues for international development
Presentation to UK Parliament International Development Select Committee on key global challenges to development
Landgrabs – a view from the ground
Following up on recent coverage of agricultural resource access deals (so-called 'landgrabs') on Global Dashboard: two GD readers, Nathan Yaffe and Laura...
The world according to Michael Ancram
I've just been reading a new pamphlet on foreign policy by Michael Ancram - a Tory grandee who was Deputy Leader of the Party and Shadow Defence Secretary...
Taking aim at bean counters
Former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios has a new Center for Global Development paper railing against the agency's culture of bureaucracy - and, in...
And the winner of the financial crisis is…Ethiopia!
Over at Brookings, Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz have been crunching the data in the IMF's new World Economic Outlook, which came out yesterday (pdf of...
Alex Evans on resilience and scarcity
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Cmn5AOOxg[/youtube]
Priesthood? Who, us?
David and I are very partial to having a good rant about the pernicious influence of the single-issue 'priesthoods' that, as we put it in Confronting the Long...
What if social protection isn’t enough?
During the food price spike and since, one of the things just about everyone (including me) has agreed on is the desirability of scaling up access to social...
Cruise ship fail
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrDZpX9nfQ0[/youtube]
Why governance matters for natural resources
Guess what this is? Answer after the jump. Yup, it's the border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Haiti, sans effective state - and, as you see, also...
Rob Hopkins on transition towns
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQuh-Kf6ng8[/youtube]
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