Spotted in passing on Twitter the other day, that cri de coeur vis-a-vis climate change and Saving The Planet, which was more or less, 'Why do those selfish boomers not think about the world they are leaving for their children and grandchildren and subsequent generations? Surely this must move their hardened hearts?'
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But further to that article I posted about at the weekend about people going woez-woez-endofcivilisation about new technology/media etc, I was thinking about that phenomenon whereby somehow what people did in Teh Past is Natural to Humanity and Proper Human Knowledge, whereas what people have now is somehow spurious and wrong.

I'd allude here to ( Read more... )

Fascinating if distressing article about women in Afghanistan (under a curiously misleading title, because the matter seems to have nothing whatsoever to do with family planning as commonly understood). It seems, alas, that although it was reported that the President had backtracked on an extraordinarily retrograde law on women that he had signed:
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