by Doreen Hosking | 18, Mar, 2024 | Blog
Do We Really Want to Lose This? Spring snowpack is critical for delivering a steady supply of drinking and irrigation water to billions of people, with bigger and earlier melts causing problems.: Or This? African lions could be completely extinct by 2050. Are we...
by Doreen Hosking | 5, Mar, 2024 | Blog
War has been with us for a very long time. There is a debate among anthropologists as to whether making war is an innate human characteristic. This article suggests that it is not, but “it is a social and cultural development that emerged at different times around the...
by Doreen Hosking | 2, Feb, 2024 | Blog
Even after 65 years, my grandmother’s words ring loudly in my ears. My grandparents were schoolteachers, so they weren’t poor. But they were thrifty. My grandmother prided herself on her lack of food waste. I am sure living through two wars contributed to that desire...
by Doreen Hosking | 15, Jan, 2024 | Blog
Many of us are fearful about the changes in the climate or worry about the future of life on Earth. We fret about our children’s well-being or how our lives will be affected in future. That distress makes us apathetic and stops us acting. I would like to suggest, not...
by Doreen Hosking | 17, Dec, 2023 | Blog
After COP 28, Dubai Fossil Fuels and other Items COP 28 The Final Agreement There was a great deal of concern from the world community over what would happen in Dubai during COP 28. The world needs a rapid phase out of fossil fuels and the President of the Conference...
by Doreen Hosking | 25, Nov, 2023 | Blog
Fossil Fuels at COP28 Dubai 30 November to 12 December 2023 Dubai Harbour – photo by Doreen Hosking What is COP28? “COP stands for ‘Conference of the Parties’. In International Relations-speak it means a committee created after an international treaty is signed,...
