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How social media shapes our political memory
Oped, Chelsea Butkowski, Published on 19/04/2025
» With Donald Trump's return to the White House, I've been reminded of a viral social media moment from just before his first rise to power in 2016. After waiting in line to vote that year, nearly 12,000 people joined a second queue, at a cemetery in upstate New York, to visit the grave of famed women's suffragist Susan B Anthony and place their "I Voted" stickers on her headstone.
Carter's wisdom
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/01/2025
» Re: "Jimmy Carter: president, global mediator, Nobel laureate", (World, Dec 30).
Service a must to drive THAI forward
Oped, Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 14/03/2024
» A passenger on a flight TG652 had to ask crew members twice for a sandwich and Coke after waking up from a short sleep which made him miss the inflight service. When one of the attendants handed him the snack, he asked her again for Coke. The cabin staff looked annoyed and told him that he should have told her from the beginning that he wanted both so that she could have done it in one trip instead of two.
Boing! The Anthropocene is upon us
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/07/2023
» 'I was there when the Anthropocene was born. It was so amazing," said Dr Katherine Richardson, leader of the Sustainability Science Centre at the University of Copenhagen. "It was actually in 2000, at one of these meetings of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme Scientific Steering Committee."
Give America a debt brake fast
Oped, R James Breiding, Published on 01/06/2023
» Since 1960, the United States has raised its debt ceiling 78 times -- soon to be 79, if Congress approves the latest last-minute deal. On a wall in Manhattan, not far from Times Square, a billboard-size display has kept a running tally of the national debt amount.
Should we study geoengineering a lot more?
Oped, Peter Singer, Published on 20/04/2023
» As our planet's climate heats up, so, too, does the debate about the boldest response to it: geoengineering, or the deliberate modification of the atmosphere to combat global warming.
World in crisis needs trade, aid
Oped, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Rebeca Grynspan and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Published on 28/07/2022
» We are in the toughest period the world economy has faced since the creation of the multilateral system more than three-quarters of a century ago. A quadruple shock of Covid, climate change, conflict and cost-of-living has undone years of hard-fought development gains. As financial conditions tighten, even countries that had seemed on track to prosperity and stability now stare into the abyss of debt distress, fragility and uncertainty about the future.
History repeats itself
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/06/2020
» It has often been said that those who do not study history are doomed to repeat mistakes of the past. Well, it seems that Samanea Saman's June 4 letter "Free the market", goes to prove that point. The writer pointed out that whilst the Thai government did have good intentions in installing a protectionist egg export policy, the actual results two months later are a depressed market, supply chain problems and even more cries for government intervention -- ie more debt.
Time to restore human relations with biodiversity
Oped, Qu Dongyu & Inger Andersen, Published on 30/05/2020
» The Covid-19 pandemic is a deep and lasting shock at global level; we all know that returning to "business as usual" is not an option. It is imperative that we perceive the crisis as an opportunity to rebuild -- and even improve -- livelihoods in a sustainable way. High on the agenda is restoring harmony to humanity's relationship with nature, and particularly with biodiversity.