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What global problems should we prioritise?
In a lecture that can be found here, Bjorn Lomborg argues that climate change should not necessarily be prioritised above other competing concerns. In a gathering of some of the world's foremost economists at a summit called the 'Copenhagen Consensus', global issues were addressed ranging from malnutritution to malaria, from climate change to water sanitation. The important part of their analysis was that they not only looked at how grave the problem was, but also how effective current available solutions are for those problems. It's well worth a look, and feel free to agree or disagree below.
Add a commentActually reading the Goldstone report
This is a note about the Goldstone report.
For those who have different facebook friends to me, and so haven’t seen a flurry of articles, youtube links and the like, almost all of them slamming the report, I’ll explain what it is. Then I’ll explain why I think we need to take it seriously.
Richard Goldstone is a prominent South African judge with vast experience of investigating human rights abuses worldwide: including South Africa, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda. He is Jewish; according to his daughter he is a Zionist; he is a trustee of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and by his own admission, has ‘supported Israel and the Jewish people all [his] life’.
Riddle of the week
This is a shout out to all you keen beans - can you crack the weekly riddle?
Any solutions win you major RSY-Netzer kudos and general 'win points'. If you collect a sufficient number of 'win points' you will become officially 'cool'. You can put that on your CV and everything...
Anyway, get solving!
Add a commentNetanyahu's Speech at the UN
Here is the speech that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu gave to the UN General Assembly on September 24th 2009 in response to both a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a UN report on human rights violations in Gaza.
What do you think of what he had to say? Was he right to have made this speech? Should a condemnation of Ahmadinejad's views and a defence of Israel's actions be linked in the same speech, or are the two unrelated? Take a read or watch the speech and then give your thoughts below!
