by Cimino | 28 Aug 2012 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Incalculable celebrity of being the 1 generation in 40 million C hances, overall, were nominally 1 in 40.01 million. The chances, that is, of being the generation that held the key to the survival of 40 million generations of human beings. Earth has existed for...
by Cimino | 18 Aug 2012 | Climate mobilisation
Cold has forever staked humanity. The Ice Age—or more formally, the Pleistocene glaciation—began 2.58 million years ago, and genus Homo just a whisker after that. Ostensibly, the Ice Age is ongoing, and the present interglacial period, during which Homo sapiens...
by Cimino | 15 Aug 2012 | MMP, Online
Labour has just been handed a third potentially pivotal gift. Eighty years ago, the preoccupation of the United and Reform coalition predecessor of the National Party with balancing the books led to real unemployment reaching 30%, to food riots, and to the election,...
by Cimino | 7 Aug 2012 | Climate strategy, Moratorium on population
Survival in the hands of generation 10 001 Sustainability could be the death of us. Bursting beyond the seven billion milestone, and with two billion poor and one billion poor and hungry, the global population is projected to swell to between 10 and 16 billion by...
by Cimino | 29 Jul 2012 | Smart networks
Green Party energy spokesman Gareth Hughes describes it as unhelpful. But when the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment finds that subsidising smart meters would make a significant contribution to reducing carbon dioxide emissions, in Aotearoa, and that...
by Cimino | 23 Jul 2012 | Climate action, Reviews, Science
Manifest evidence suggests science not an option Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. Daniel Patrick Moynihan 1927–2003 When Professor Sir Peter Gluckman recommends a title with such seemingly marginal appeal as The...
by Cimino | 11 Jul 2012 | Global democracy
World government was the logical next step. Had Albert Einstein, Mohandas K Gandhi and J Robert Oppenheimer had their wish, the United Nations would have quickly transitioned to global government. Nations had plenty of incentive, given the dreadful dawning reality of...
by Cimino | 27 Jun 2012 | Transport and climate action
There are mandates, and mandates. The mandate fairly claimed by the newly created Auckland Council’s inaugural mayor, Len Brown, was for building the city rail link. However, since Len Brown’s election, a National-led government has been re-elected with, it would...
by Daniele Archibugi et al | 27 Jun 2012 | Global democracy
Daniele Archibugi Noam Chomsky Richard Falk David Held Fernando Iglesias Lucio Levi Giacomo Marramao George Monbiot Heikki Patomāki Mary Kaldor Saskia Sassen Richard Sennet Vandana Shiva Andy Strauss Politics lags behind the facts. We live in an era of deep...
