• 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

  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

  Is the Wuhan 'devil virus' a 'black swan'?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/02/2020

  » China officially went back to work on Monday, after an extended two-week Lunar New Year holiday, while the authorities struggled to get the spread of the new coronavirus under control. But a lot of Chinese are not going back to work yet, and the spread of the "devil virus" (as President Xi Jinping called it) is manifestly not under control.

• OPINION

  Charting China's decline, at a slow pace

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/12/2023

  » For several years now, I have had a file on my computer named "China -- has the moment arrived?" But I think I missed the moment -- or rather I forgot that these things aren't a moment, they're a process.

• OPINION

  A resurgence of alliances is an echo of past wars

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 21/01/2023

  » Alliances are as old as civilisation. Older, actually: almost every hunter-gatherer band that anthropologists have studied, from the New Guinea highlanders to the Yanomamo in the Amazon, made alliances with other groups to try to protect themselves.

• OPINION

  Apocalypse may be just around the corner

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/09/2022

  » Which would be worse: a global nuclear war with all buttons pressed, or real, self-conscious artificial intelligence that goes rogue? You know, the central theme of the Terminator movies.

• OPINION

  India at 75, and what might have been

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/08/2022

  » Last Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of Indian independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to turn India into a developed country within the next 25 years. If all goes well, that could actually come to pass, but it would have to go very well indeed.

• OPINION

  What's wrong with the Philippines?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/05/2022

  » 'Bongbong" Marcos didn't just win the presidential election in the Philippines this week. He won it by a two-to-one landslide, despite the fact that he is the extremely entitled son of a former president who stole at least US$10 billion and a mother who spent the loot partly on the world's most extensive collection of designer shoes (3,000 pairs).

• OPINION

  Early extinction of fossil fuels a risk in itself

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/12/2021

  » The "new normal", said International Energy Agency spokesperson Heymi Bahar last May, may be a far faster expansion of renewable energy than expected, driven mainly by market forces. So fast, in fact, that it raises a different kind of risk (but he didn't mention that).

• OPINION

  COP26: Mixed bag of hope, despair

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/11/2021

  » It's not too early to assess the success or failure of COP26, the climate summit that began in Glasgow on Oct 31. The first week, while the heads of state are there, is when all the big promises are announced; the second week is devoted to haggling over the details of the deals. So we already know that it hasn't been an absolute failure.

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