Make the World a Better Place

  The impacts of man made climate change that I have read in respected newspapers, magazines, books and websites are:- 1. I ncreased rate ...

 People want to be happy, but don’t seem to be able to understand what happiness is, let alone know how to achieve it. To tackle this proble...

 Oct 23    Sycamore Gap or Rosebank Oilfield - Which is the Greater Crime? Oct 23     Israel Palestine - Why not support and care for each o...

 It may be because I‘m a Sheffielder, who has witnessed many of our street trees being felled, but I can’t get worked up about the felling o...

 The recent attack by Hamas is morally wrong, but the reaction of Israel is also morally wrong. Both sides must be condemned, as the only ju...

 After visiting Berlin a few years ago, I wanted to learn why the holocaust occurred, and if it was possible to prevent similar events ever ...

 Our closest relatives, the Neanderthals, died out 40,000 years ago leaving us, Homo sapiens, to dominate the planet.  In his book on the su...

 The current state of the war in Ukraine is likely to result in stalemate. The Russian Army has dug in and Ukrainians are finding it extreme...

 The news and history books are full of violence. War in Ukraine, fighting in the Middle East, gun murders, stabbings and sexual violence ar...

  "Chinese defense minister to speak at Russian event billed as fighting 'Western world domination' China's defense ministe...

  Because it is a simple fact of physics, that the more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the hotter the world becomes, the Inter...

  The UN definition of a ‘crime against humanity’ is inhumane acts intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to m...

 I’ve called my blog ‘Make the world a better place’ as I think all our actions should be for the benefit of all  others, living now or in t...

 In his short story Typhoon, Joseph Conrad, the early 20th century author famous for his tales of the sea,  describes the story of a steam s...

" What happens under the rule of specialization [of labour] is that, though society becomes more and more intricate, it has less and le...

The writer of a letter published in the New Scientist magazine declares that fathoming human behaviour is hard. However, if we condense the...