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  • Population v Climate Change

    Interesting article by Duncan Green, Oxfam’s Head of Policy, in the New Statesman this week. “People cause climate change, therefore cut the number of people. Right? Not really. A closer look shows that the conventional view is wrong, or at least a gross over-simplification.” “The population debate matters, especially in these two Copenhagen weeks, because

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  • Evo Morales – from poverty to power

    Exit polls over the weekend put Evo Morales on course for an overwhelming victory in Bolivia’s Presidential election. As the Guardian said in their editorial today, this victory has gone a long way to making the social transformation inside Bolivia irreversible. Such a transformation was unthinkable as recently as nine years ago. Then, Bolivia was

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