Two stories – both from Roy Greenslade in recent days – that give cause to viagra canadian pharmacy ponder the responsibility that the media bear. The first one is the old chestnut about the big lie splashed over the early pages followed by the retraction hidden under the Darts results. Given the fuss earlier this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Climate change’
Convening power and direct democracy
Tuning into the Personal Democracy Forum 2010 event in Washington, Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com offered a nice quote from Alexis De Tocqueville: “In democratic countries, knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge” It’s certainly true that state-sponsored organisations have even less of a monopoly over the ability to [...]
Copenhagen Climate Summit widens rift between local and global approaches
I thought I’d wait until you’re all back from the Christmas break before I posted about my trip to Copenhagen and it’s various climate events. Almost everything climate-related that happened in and around Copenhagen over those two weeks offers rich pickings for reflection on the changing relationship between democracy and climate change. I work for [...]
Change from the bottom up?
One of this blog’s new contributors, Halina Ward, is currently in Copenhagen at the Climate Change Conference. The main reason she is there is to write a post for us (ahem). One thing she has passed on to me is a scepticism about the problems surrounding ‘bottom up’ solutions to the problem of carbon emissions. [...]
Climate change and the lobbyists
I meant to pick this up a few days ago – I’ve been too busy to blog as diligently as I’d like to. In the Times, Greenpeace’s Joss Garman says: “Imagine if, instead of 60 years ago, the Labour Party was trying to create a National Health Service today. The right-wing campaign to scupper the formation of [...]