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By Kim on September 6, 2010
Q&A tonight came close to living up to its pitch of unpredictability. The representatives of both wings of the political class – Nick Minchin and Peter Beattie – looked like going into meltdown as Christine Milne and Bob Katter, for [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, History, International, Media, Politics | Tagged agriculture, Bob Katter, cheap food, Christine Milne, De Tocqueville, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, food security, free trade, greens, hung parliament, John Stuart Mill, neo-liberalism, Nick Minchin, Peter Beattie, protection, Q&A, Qanda, Rebecca Huntley, tariffs |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 3, 2010
Open Democracy has asked a range of its contributors to answer the following questions: A volcanic decade in global politics ends amid deep unease about the world’s ability to rise to key 21st-century challenges. openDemocracy writers draw breath and look [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, International, Markets, Politics, Security, Sociology, Terrorism, The Web, War | Tagged agriculture, Authoritarianism, barack obama, China, civil liberties, Climate change, conflict resolution, Copenhagen, decade, democratisation, Developing world, development, ecology, end of history, food security, GFC, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, human rights, humanitarianism, inequality, international law, Madagascar, Mark Lynas, millennium goals, neo-liberalism, Open Democracy, peacekeeping, retrospective, statism, Terrorism, torture, UN, USA, War, world economy |
By Robert Merkel on September 16, 2009
While Patrick Swayze’s death gets more media attention, (I never got Dirty Dancing, but his turn in Donnie Darko remains one of the more disturbing performances I’ve ever seen) a man who made a far greater impact on the lives [...]
Posted in Developing world, Policy, Poverty, Science | Tagged agriculture, norman borlaug |
By Robert Merkel on September 2, 2008
One area that generates extended discussion on LP climate change threads is the ability of biological processes – forests, particularly – to remove some of the excess carbon dioxide we’re so thoughtlessly dumping into the atmosphere. It’s a genuinely problematic [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Science | Tagged agriculture, climate change mitigation, phytolith, soil carbon, sugar cane |
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