by Doreen Hosking | 30, Jun, 2025 | Blog
The environmental cost of fighting wars is enormous. In addition the impact of militarisation starts long before the wars themselves do. CEOBS shows that building and sustaining military forces consumes vast quantities of resources, for example in training. Also...
by Doreen Hosking | 19, Jun, 2025 | Blog
89% of the global population want stronger action on Climate Change. I recently wrote a blog discussing an article in the Guardian newspaper. It was about a survey that showed 89% of the global population want stronger action on Climate Change. It seems, strangely,...
by Doreen Hosking | 9, Jun, 2025 | Blog
It’s Time to Wake Up! It is clear to me that our way of life is not working. It seems obvious, given the evidence. And yet we are not in the streets demanding change. Why not? The signs of collapse are everywhere: Recent surveys have shown that most people in the...
by Doreen Hosking | 4, Jun, 2025 | Blog
A New Day, A Possibility of Better Choices The choices we make in life always have consequences. Thinking through our choices allows us to identify our real values. “Life presents many choices, the choices we make determine our future.” – Catherine Pulsifer This is...
by Doreen Hosking | 20, May, 2025 | Blog
My apologies to Robert Reich (former American Secretary of Labour under Bill Clinton and professor at Berkeley University) for “borrowing” his title. In his Substack post this week he looks at how to mobilize the American public against the present Administration as...
by Doreen Hosking | 12, May, 2025 | Blog
The World’s Food System is broken in many different ways. These include the vast amount of Greenhouse Gas emissions that it puts into the atmosphere to warm our planet. (Carbon Brief reports it is responsible for about one third of all human-induced emissions.). Our...
