Pooran Desai

National Security, Economics and Climate – we need to Connect for Peace

I was horrified to hear that our government is warning us that we need to prepare for war and we need people to be prepared to fight.

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Ben Gill

Meeting carbon targets – how do you deliver an ‘impossible’ task?

The briefing makes clear that responding to the climate and nature emergency requires rapid, coordinated action across many siloes, and we’re here to show you how it can be done.

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Tash Barnes

Holding a looking glass into children’s present and future

...anger at the injustice - namely, of being born onto a burning planet that has yet to achieve any lasting peace across or within borders.

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Pooran Desai

Is philosophy a ‘nice to have’ or vital for our survival?

Should philosophy be made compulsory in schools and universities and become part of our everyday lives? I think so.

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Ben Gill

Remembering Forward

It's impossible to understand how humanity drove itself to such levels of horror and destruction, and the only way I’m able to cope is to dream about what we could achieve if we could unite humanity around a positive goal.

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Pooran Desai

World Cities Day: from data-driven to data-informed

Focussing on data takes us away from looking at the bigger picture and can undermine ways of working which reduce the chances of unintended consequences.

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