Ten years ago, in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine in March 2005, Pan Yue, China’s eloquent, young vice-minister of China’s State Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) told the magazine, “the Chinese miracle will end soon because the environment can no longer keep pace.” Pan Yue added: “We are using too many raw materials to sustain …
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Trump is operating his transition from New York. I understand he has suggested that, once he becomes President, he will spend future weekends at Trump Tower, New York. This may be unusual, some say unprecedented, but the good news is that as long as he is in New York he won’t be doing as …
My wife and I decided not to talk incessently about the results of the election, but to calmly wait and see what the new President actually does. Our resolve didn’t last long. Of all the many issues one could worry about, global climate change has to be by far the most important . Other changes …
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In Turkey, Erdogan , who does not believe in the equality of the sexes, is overturning the secularization of the country that followed the First World War. A bill is before Parliament which would allow men accused of raping underage girls to be cleared if they marry the girl has been preliminarily backed by Turkish …
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When Hillary first declared her Presidential candidacy I said that I wanted to vote for policies, not gender, and if Hillary was going to run on the platform of the “first woman President” then she would not succeed. Actually, she didn’t run on this platform, but others sent out that message all the same. In …
