Venkatesh Rao Oct 15, 2015 Science
This repository recommends and repeats thought provoking resources about poverty reduction, climate change, environmental sustainability and human justice issues. Many of these problems are global problems, but they are experienced at the local level. Videography can highlight local-level problems and solutions, showcase applicable best practices, communicate distant realities across time and space, and inspire coordinated policy interventions. Some resources were used in my university teaching.
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Why Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for War
The poorest countries are putting the richest to shame
Click to read article: http://gu.com/p/4eyag/sbl
Monday, 7 December 2015
COP21: Richest 10 per cent ‘produce half the world’s CO2 emissions’
The enormity of climate-change inequality has been laid bare by new research showing that the richest 1 per cent of the world’s population produces 175 times as much CO2 per person as the bottom 10 per cent.'
The Independent(UK), 2.12.15.