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Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
With two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year – COP27 and COP15 – there should have been the prospect of an immediate impact on the looming disaster of climate breakdown.
January 18, 2023
Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
When juries deliver verdicts that offend the political establishment, they are commonly termed ‘perverse’ – and Boris Johnson’s government has been experiencing a veritable plague of perversity in recent months.
January 31, 2022
Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
Unless the elites of the world transform their understanding of security, things are going to look good for extreme movements in the 2030s and beyond, whether they stem from perverse religious identities, ethnicities, nationalisms or political ideologies.
August 19, 2021
Paul Rogers, Open Democracy
The great floods across parts of southern England may have abated, but questions over their linkage to climate change are among the most powerful residues.
February 27, 2014
Paul Rogers, openDemocracy
The global demonstrations of 2011 both highlight the reality of economic system-failure and reveal its linkages to the crisis of resource constraints. The result is a measure of the scale of change needed over coming decades.
November 18, 2011
Paul Rogers, openDemocracy
An explosion of unrest and looting by young people that began in London and spread to other cities is a particular case of a global pattern with shared roots.
August 12, 2011
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