When I was eight years old they taught us in school that rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere were causing the world to warm up. However, they said, it would be thirty years before the effects would be felt, and this would be plenty of time for us to reduce our carbon emissions […]
This is a fascinating letter from a Dr. Meehan to then Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald on the upcoming 8th amendment referendum – Would Savita be alive today if Galway doctor’s advice had been taken 30 years ago?. There is something especially powerful about a prophetic voice speaking from beyond the grave. Amid the large volume of […]
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” ― Mark Twain John Gormley, late of the Green Party leadership, wrote a prescient article in the Village magazine around this time last year. In it, he listed some rules and lessons he’d learned the hard way during the Green Party’s term in government that led to […]
A vision of the future from a German magazine circa 1930 via Twitter / kathrynschulz.