http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:48:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As humanity grows in numbers and in technological power and as we become ever more interconnected, more and more of the challenges that we face are truly global.  Climate change, endemic poverty, disease, resource depletion, terrorism and other problems all require a planet-wide point of view if they are to ... http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog/2006/12/a-proposal-for-our-planet/ Those who are cynical and despairing about facing and dealing with climate change often say that solutions and not realistic because people will not vote for poverty. However the problem is not that people will not vote for poverty, it is that people ARE voting for poverty. Older people are voting ... http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog/2006/12/what-is-possible/ If you're interested in communicating climate change at any level then this 50-minute talk by Solitaire Townsend at MIT is a must-see.  Solitaire is managing director of Futerra, a UK communications consultancy specialising in sustainability issues.  She and her company have studied the communication of climate change for the UK ... http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog/2006/11/video/ By 2008 the fact of climate change is almost universally accepted, but discussion about solutions has become a loud and acrimonious pitting of interest against interest while negotiations for the second stage of the Kyoto Protocol are still bogged down. The election of a more competent American president provides the ... http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog/2006/11/imagine/ When religious or political ideology meet science, its not a pretty sight. An ideology is a collection of doctrines, beliefs and opinions about how the world works or should work. Science, on the other hand, is a systematic and relatively objective process of discovering how the world works. 'Should' doesn't ... http://www.grahamcaswell.com/blog/2006/11/when-ideology-meets-science/