So yesterday I’m scrolling through the New York Times, and then up pops this big ad: If I was writing copy for that ad, the statue would be pointing at the reader and the bold bright headline would thunder “BERLIN WANTS YOU!” But that message still got through, especially if one clicked a link to … Continue reading A Durham Double-Take & Berlin Wants You! (Who — Me?? No — YOU!)
Climate Change: The August Deadline By Gwynne Dyer — 31 July 2024 When you spend four years writing a book on climate change, you get to know most of the leading players. I have never seen them so dismayed. “By August, if we’re still looking at record-breaking temperatures, then we really have moved into uncharted … Continue reading Dyer: Global Heating: Breaking Records, Beating Forecasts; Now What?
I. Guyana: Oil, Time & Money Gwynne Dyer — Sept. 18, 2023 Guyana is not a ‘hellhole country’ of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from white places like Norway instead, but it did used to be poor, tropical and largely populated by people … Continue reading Is the Petroleum Profit Party Really About to End? Two Oil Countries Are Making Their Bets — And an Extra about The Other Washington
Life discovered on planet 120 light years from Earth Gwynne Dyer — Sep 16 2023 – Gwynne Dyer is a UK-based Canadian journalist and historian who writes about international affairs This week’s real news is the discovery of life on another planet. As Cambridge University’s Nikku Madhusudhan said in the first sentence of his report: … Continue reading Is This for Real? Life in space discovered?? Gwynne Dyer Says, “Maybe Yes.”
Washington Post Scientists warn invasive pests are taking a staggering toll on society The authors of a major new U.N.-backed report say invasive species are costing the world more than $423 billion a year By Dino Grandoni — September 4, 2023 Invasive pests are wreaking havoc across the planet, destroying crops, disseminating pathogens, depleting fish … Continue reading The Invasion of the Invasives Is Here (Right In My Back Yard)