The gas emissions from flights make up 2.4% of the world’s total carbon emissions and even a flight of a few hundred miles produces up to 50 times more pollution than a high-speed electric train. Sean Sheehan When you consider that some 75% of the world’s population never […]
In Focus
In Focus
A history of violence
I went to secondary school from 1968 until 1975. It was a Grammar School. I did not know that I was about to enter a world of institutionalised violence. Steve Latham At the pinnacle of our little world, was the Headmaster. In his office he kept the cane. […]
An anti-Bolsonaro youth
For young people Brazil’s current government represents a present and a future without prospects. They are aware of their power in October’s elections since, as well as electoral weight, they have the capacity to influence other generations politically. Osvaldo Cardosa It is estimated that young people could have […]
Community, destroyed by individualism
What is ‘community’? It is a noun, and has a verbal form, ‘communication’. This gives us the essence of a ‘community’, for it is nothing more or less than a group of people who are in full communication with each other. This full communication is frightening, and many people, and […]
The human and the nonhuman
Rebecca Tamás begins her book “Strangers” by recalling the 17th century Levellers and their proto-communist calls for radical democracy and common ownership of land. Sean Sheehan She is drawn to their prescient awareness of the need to connect political awareness with ecological concerns, the human and the nonhuman. […]