by sustainablesociety | Mar 7, 2021 | Climate Change
Old Paradigms – New Norms. I am currently based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, working with the Saudi Ministry of Health on their hugely ambitious Transformation Plan. Because of Covid regulations I had to pass first through Dubai, a city of such proportions as to be...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 3, 2020 | Climate Change
“As matters now stand, every issue is hopelessly entangled in a snarl of emotions, stereotypes and irrelevant memories and associations.” (John Dewey) I sit down with friends and we discuss matters of various triviality and seriousness. A common theme often makes its...
by sustainablesociety | Sep 26, 2020 | Climate Change
When you’ve settled yourself into the seat at the cinema, and cursed that you have sat next to a big box of crunched popcorn and a giant tub of noisily slurped Cola held by someone with the eating etiquette of a half starved hyena, you know that what you are...
by sustainablesociety | Jun 6, 2020 | Health, Politics
What has the now global, dominant economic variants of capitalism to do with health outcomes? It has to do with the system of private property, alienation and the continuing struggle for existence, which capitalism seemed to have solved in the rich level 4 countries....
by sustainablesociety | Jun 2, 2020 | Politics
I can’t breathe For the weight of history bears down, And suffocates my hopes, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe, For the boot on my human face stamps down Crushing a vision of the future, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe For the white hooded sheets, the red flagged,...
