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Covid conspiracy
A side effect of the Covid pandemic has been a parallel pandemic of conspiracy theories, fake news and downright misinformation. It seems important to draw students' attention to all of this, and encourage...
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Degrowth
A fundamental part of sharing the planet is economics - how people all over the planet earn money, and what they then do with it. The article that forms the basis of this page deals with the important...
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On nationalism
Do nations share? ... perhaps the nation state is the biggest stumbling-block in the development of the concept of 'sharing the planet' - after all, each nation sees itself as unique and more important...
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How to be a populist
Sharing the planet, sharing politics ... one of the many effects of the internet has been that, increasingly, politics across the planet is sharing the same (debateable) means, to the same (debatable)...
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Negative globalization
Sharing the downsides? ... that everything is becoming 'global' is now a trite cliché, a statement of the obvious - but all the more reason to examine exactly what is involved. We don't have to accept...
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Great Nations of Europe
The term 'Sharing the planet' expresses a pretty recent idea, even though homo sapiens has always shared the planet in that we have all lived here. The modern aspect of the term is that the word 'share'...
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What have the Romans...?
. 'The Life of Brian' is reckoned to be one of the best black comedies ever made, and the scene that forms the basis of this page, where the revolutionaries of the People's Front of Judea discuss "What...
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Nationalist myths
The experience of nationalism ... It is pretty clear that nationalist movements are based powerfully on the experience of strong emotions relating to the idea of a nation. The text that forms the basis...
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Containers
Ingenuity in hindsight ... the history of the container is an example of how really ingenious solutions often boring appear once the solution becomes a normal part of everyday life. Think of the paper-clip,...
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Climate emergency language
Every year, the Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes its Word of the Year, selected because the term is representative of the year in question, and has "lasting potential as a term of cultural significance"....