• OPINION

  Prepare for a fossil fuel fire sale

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/11/2021

  » An article with the innocuous title "Reframing Incentives for Climate Policy Action" slipped out in the scientific journal Nature Energy three weeks ago and got very little attention, presumably because of the hopeless title. But it's not innocuous at all. It's explosive.

• OPINION

  Climates of fear lead to 'shoot-downs'

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/01/2020

  » One of the main causes of death for airline passengers in recent decades is being shot down by somebody's military. Not the very biggest, of course: accidents account for nine-tenths of all deaths in civilian airline crashes, and terrorist attacks and hijackings cause most of the rest. But a solid 2.5% of the deaths are due to trigger-happy people in military uniforms.

• OPINION

  Only the poor end up dying screaming

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/01/2018

  » If you had a million dollars to spend (but not on yourself), where would it do the most good? Well, the cost to cover morphine or a morphine-equivalent pain relief treatment for all the sick children younger than 15 years who are in really serious pain in low-income countries would be just $1 million (33.4 million baht) per year. About half of them of those children are going to die, but with morphine at least they wouldn't die screaming.

• OPINION

  China's Xi shaping up as Chairman Mao of 21st century

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/02/2018

  » The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) approved a proposal on Monday that the country's president no longer be limited to two five-year terms of office. The National People's Congress will rubber-stamp the change. And that will be the end of three decades of consensus-seeking collective leadership in the CCP. The god-king model is back.

• OPINION

  British petulance is shaping European Union's future

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2016

  » What would you call a country that called for "a structure under which [Europe] can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom ... a kind of United States of Europe" at the end of the Second World War (Winston Churchill, 1946), but refused to join that structure when its European neighbours actually began building it (European Economic Community, or EEC, 1957)?

• OPINION

  Looking back at the October Revolution

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/11/2017

  » China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the "October Revolution" to mark its hundredth anniversary (which is actually on Nov 7, since the Russians were still using the Julian calendar in 1917). It had an unusual effect on me. It made me question whether I was right about the utter futility of that revolution.

• OPINION

  Why China won't budge on N Korea

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/11/2017

  » Over the next few days, Donald Trump will be visiting the leaders of Japan, South Korea and China, and the same topic will dominate all three conversations: North Korea. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korea's President Moon Jae-in will be looking for reassurance that the United States will protect them from North Korea's nuclear weapons, but in Beijing Mr Trump will be the supplicant.

• OPINION

  South Korea: Very competitive and childless

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/03/2024

  » There are enough people to go around: eight billion now, compared to two billion less than a hundred years ago. Fifty-one million in South Korea, compared to only twelve million a hundred years ago. So why are South Koreans obsessed about their low birth rate?

• OPINION

  Modest drop in emissions can help the world

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2023

  » At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science.

• OPINION

  Time isn't on Guyana's side for oil income

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/09/2023

  » Guyana is not a "hellhole country" of the sort Donald Trump complained about when he said he wanted immigrants to come to the US from white places like Norway instead, but it did used to be poor, tropical and largely populated by people of colour.

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