This piece is published this morning on the Guardian development blog (under the rather fabulous headline "Will international development be the undoing of...
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.
Total energy decarbonisation by 2030 AND flat fuel bills? Seriously?
Blimey - Ed Miliband certainly likes to make it hard for himself. Amid all the coverage this morning of his Labour conference speech yesterday, one small...
Did climate change help cause Syria’s civil war?
Did climate change and a multi-year drought help to create the conditions in which Syria’s civil war caught fire?
Ten thoughts on the UK Parliament vote on Syria
1. You can totally understand why the British public is where it's at. Last time they heard about WMD from the JIC, it was the 45 minutes claim. They've also...
Ecological footprints – mapped out
How much land would be needed if all 7 billion of the world's people had the average living standards of each of the countries shown. From Explorer.
Emerging economies’ dangerous game on the post-2015 development agenda
The internal dynamics of the G77 group of developing countries are shifting rapidly on both climate change and the post-2015 international development agenda,...
What Antoinette Tuff has to teach politics
Amid all the commentary about Antoinette Tuff's successful talking down of a potential school gunman in Georgia, Gary Younge in the Guardian makes two of the...
What progress looks like
We started out with four feet of skin care; today it's twenty feet. Today we don't have deodorants, but someday down the road we will have deodorants in...
On course for 3.6 – 5.3 degrees Celsius
A little earlier in the summer, the International Energy Agency published an excerpt from the forthcoming 2013 World Energy Outlook. Included in it was their...
The first law of politics
From Janan Ganesh in the FT: More than any profession, politics suffers from the myth of strategy. Its practitioners and pundits tend to attribute electoral...
How the Snowden saga will end
This thoughtful post on Hacking Distributed is a must-read, arguing that the endgame on the Snowden saga will be determined by the relative strength of three...
Obama’s big shift on climate messaging
Chris Mooney picks up an interesting point about Obama's climate change speech last month: If you watched President Obama's major speech on climate change,...
Finding a myth for the 21st century
Text of speech by Alex Evans to Modern Church movement annual conference (July 2013) Download Speech
“I think we’re fucked” and other reasons not to publish a book
Last night saw the launch at the Science Museum of a new book called Ten Billion, by Stephen Emmott. I'm not sure I can recall another book that's annoyed me...
Not just about a 20 cent bus fare rise
From a protestor on the ground in Brazil: Brazil is living through a special moment today, it’s true. Some well-applied political programs over the last...
New Global Peace Index
Headlines (from their news release): Dramatic rise in the number of homicides drives reduction in world peace over the last year Measures of state-sponsored...
Exactly
Steve Richards: For all the specific reasons that explain the destabilising crises that unnerve Prime Ministers, there is one constant factor. No 10 is...
Post-2015: is there any point?
This month, the UN High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda moves in to the home straight, with its report due to be submitted to the...
Wow (updated x2)
UK Secretary of State for International Development Justine Greening in a speech today: "South Africa has made enormous progress over the past two decades, to...
A reply to Jeff Sachs and Johan Rockstrom on fair shares and planetary boundaries
Dear Jeff Sachs, Johan Rockstrom, Marcus Ohman and Guido Schmidt-Traub, I'm a long-standing admirer of your work, especially Johan's pioneering research on...
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