"Some dismiss inequality and focus instead on overall growth – arguing, in effect, that a rising tide lifts all boats. When a handful of yachts become ocean...
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.
Coca Cola – active healthy living
Here in Addis Ababa, last weekend saw the Coca-Cola Road Race, an annual 7km race. The strapline for the event was "active healthy living". Um, really?...
Conservatives in redeeming feature shock
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H03LiiQg2mw[/youtube]
“You always become the thing you fight the most…”
Two car bombs exploded in Karbala, a centre of Shia worship south of Baghdad, killing 13 people and injuring 50 in a shopping area ... A similar double...
The five kinds of people you encounter on High Level Panels
With the UN's new High-level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda due to hold its first meeting next week, the big question is which Panel members will...
Beware September
This from an investor briefing sent out today by Nomura, the Japanese bank: Even if the eurozone manages to get through August without the crisis taking a...
Resources, Risk and Resilience: Scarcity and Climate Change in Ethiopia
The first in a series of CIC case studies on the challenges that resource scarcity and climate change pose to poor countries – and how they, and their international partners, can build resilience to them. The report assesses both Ethiopia’s current policies on scarcity and climate, and a range of key gaps, vulnerabilities and exogenous risks that need to be taken account of in future planning.
Greenpeace’s Executive Director replies (sort of) to my post on why they’re part of the problem on global climate policy
Last week, I published a post here arguing that Greenpeace is (and has been for a long time) part of the problem on global climate policy - in a nutshell,...
Resource scarcity in Ethiopia
Global concern is currently mounting all over again about the impacts of a more resource-scarce world, with particular attention focused at present on the...
Another great moment in development communications
Following my post last month on a UNECA advertisement in Addis Ababa inviting people vulnerable to climate change to "download coping strategies", here's...
Why Greenpeace is part of the problem on global climate policy
On Twitter a couple of days ago, Greenpeace International's executive director Kumi Naidoo penned an appeal for people to become Greenpeace members. I threw...
Let’s be Norway (part 3)
Continuing an occasional series about why the UK could take a leaf out of Norway's foreign policy book on, well, pretty much every front (previous instalments...
The view from the International Space Station
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/44801709#[/vimeo]
A safe and just operating space for humanity – Kate Raworth
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCAx3TG8LkI[/youtube]
LIBOR: more outrage, please
Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: To me what’s missing from all of this is the “Holy Fucking Shit!” factor. This story is so outrageous that it shocks even the...
The Myth Gap
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/42416260[/vimeo]
The world’s economic centre of gravity
From the Economist: It is not exactly news that the world's economic centre of gravity is shifting east. But it is striking how fast this seems to be...
Antifragility
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire...
Hollande’s protection detail forgot their guns at Rio+20
A delicious tale from this morning's Telegraph: French secret service agents tasked with protecting President Francois Hollande "forgot to pack their guns"...
Collected Sorkinisms
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78RzZr3IwI[/youtube]
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