Here's a snapshot of the defining features of the world in 2030, courtesy of the US National Intelligence Council's excellent Global Trends 2030 report, the...
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.
But tell us what you *really* think
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A US carbon tax?
Lots of Brits will, like me, have been pleasantly surprised - astonished, in fact - by Henry Porter's Observer piece over the weekend arguing that things seem...
Post-2015: where does sustainability fit in? (Updated)
Climate, scarcity and sustainability are among the most important – and politically challenging - elements of the post-2015 development agenda on what should...
Climate, Scarcity and Sustainability in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
What should sustainability advocates aim for in the post-2015 international development agenda – and how should they go about it?
“Within five months, they’d hacked Android…”
The experiment is being done in two isolated rural villages with about 20 first-grade-aged children each, about 50 miles from Addis Ababa. One village is...
Bleak
Pithy summary of the problems faced by UK 16-30 year olds in an email sent round by the excellent Intergenerational Foundation: Frustrated / voiceless / no...
A class bit of campaigning from Greenpeace UK
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WWF launches 2012 Living Planet Report… in space
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Not that you’ll hear either of the candidates saying anything of the sort, but…
Via Ezra Klein. Full Business Week article here.
Someone please get this man a new press secretary
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“The struggle between incumbency elites and those who see the need for change will be the defining struggle of our times”
Such a great intro to a speech: Business as usual died in 2008. Publics understand that. Elites, on the whole, do not. In Britain, our economy is now almost...
Banks screwing with price discovery mechanisms: water’s next
Frederick Kaufman in the current edition of Nature: Making money come out of the tap means that fresh water must be given a price anywhere it is traded — a...
Separated at birth: Lehman Brothers, nukes
Great post from Nils Gilman on Small Precautions: In 2006 RAND staged a wargame to think through the implications of a nuclear terorr incident. They created a...
All change at Change.org?
I like Change.org. Everyone likes Change.org. It's about harnessing the power of the internet to empower citizens and help them push for stuff they mind about...
Mark Lynas on planetary boundaries
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The unbelievable, incomprehensible, off-the-charts stupidity of imprisoning scientists for being wrong
Did this really just happen? Six Italian scientists and an ex-government official have been sentenced to six years in prison over the 2009 deadly earthquake...
How much humiliation can Spain cope with?
The FT's Gillian Tett reports today on a conference presentation given by historical sociologist Dennis Smith, who's been working on the question of how...
Freudian tweet of the day
An intriguing tweet from EU development commissioner Andris Piebalgs: I realised I made a mistake in my tweet. I meant 'living' not 'leaving' obviously. As I...
Interesting factoids on employment and development
...courtesy of the World Bank's 2013 World Development Report (which is on jobs, and definitely worth a read): 1.6 billion people work for a wage or salary,...
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