Climate: A Happy Surprise By Gwynne Dyer Start with China, the world’s biggest emitter by far of greenhouse gases: 27% of the entire world’s emissions, and more than twice that of the second-biggest emitter, the United States. In fact, it’s more than all the emissions of all the other developed countries combined. Bad China. But […]
Geoengineering or Bust By Gwynne Dyer This is the second anniversary of the arrival of the Emergency but practically nobody is mentioning it. Instead people are choosing to worry about more familiar problems like global trade wars, the rise of fascism and genocidal wars. It’s kind of a global displacement activity: if we don’t mention
Israel: The Impossible Dream By Gwynne Dyer A zombie dream has taken over Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, or at least the extreme right part of it, which is the tail that wags the rest. It is the dream that was once called ‘transfer’ and is now known as ‘relocation’. In its broadest form
800 words (700) 23 April 2025 The Puzzle of Jorge Bergoglio By Gwynne Dyer Not being a believer myself, I take only a limited interest in the doings of priests, imams and rabbis, but I did stumble into a situation involving the late Pope Francis at a crucial point in his early career. This is
12 March 2025 Maybe a Short Ceasefire, Maybe Not By Gwynne Dyer What’s hard to keep in mind, with all the hype that’s flying around, is that there’s no particular reason for either side in the Ukraine war to want a ceasefire right now, let alone a full peace settlement. The only one who’s in
23 February 2025 Burma* on the Brink By Gwynne Dyer If the Burmese drive General Min Aung Hlaing and his brutal military regime from power, as they seem about to do, the first thing they should do afterwards is take a leaf from Costa Rica’s book and abolish the army. Don’t reform it or downsize
11 January 2025 Climate Feedbacks – Not in Front of the Children By Gwynne Dyer “This does not mean the international +1.5C target has been broken, because that refers to a long-term average over decades.” If those carefully chosen words don’t set your alarm bells ringing, you have not traveled much in the land of
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5 January 2025 Rogue Presidents By Gwynne Dyer Turning yourself from a democratically elected president into a dictator is a tricky operation, and most people who try it fail. It’s called a ‘self-coup’, from the Spanish ‘auto-golpe’, and to try it without first gaining the support of the armed forces is sheer lunacy. Yet from
1 January 2025 Welcome to ‘Uncharted Territory’ by Gwynne Dyer New Year is when we do the accounts for the year, and the bad news always gets top billing: how many wars are going on, how big were the natural disasters, etc.? Climate change now has its own slot in this annual accounting, and here
15 December 2024 Syria: Another Miracle, Please By Gwynne Dyer They’re still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So what are the odds that the man whose fighters brought down the regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa, can