Your headline today tells us that the "UN fiddles while the Middle East burns". Please do not join the insidious drip feed of politically-motivated doubt that is undermining the authority of UN. The delay is due to the intransigence of Israel and Hezbollah and their various backers, not the UN itself, which has the unwelcome but necessary task of providing the forum for this debate of the deaf.
Dr Richard Lawson
Founder, Campaign for a Human Rights Index in the UN
NB: this one made it to the letters page. Published on dead trees. Distributed. Bought. Scanned by hundreds of eyeballs. Then got chucked away and if lucky, recycled. Sic transit.
Monday, August 07, 2006
A Question for James Lovelock
The Independent is running a question-a-celeb page. Next up is James Lovelock. Send yours to myquestion@independent.co.uk
Here's mine.
Dear Jim
Gaia is a system.
Paradoxically, your vision for the future is of a nuclear powered elite standing outside of the global social system in order to try to continue a "civilisation" in Northern Europe for a few years.
The vast majority of those who have been campaigning the healing of Gaia over the past four or five decades believe that the healing must take place through system change, not through one single ex-system technology. Everyone from presidents to waste collectors must play their part in a radical change in attitude and behaviour, using a vide variety of safe, human scale technologies which interact together in a beneficial way.
Will you join us in calling for such a system change?
Dr Richard Lawson
Green Party Activist
Here's mine.
Dear Jim
Gaia is a system.
Paradoxically, your vision for the future is of a nuclear powered elite standing outside of the global social system in order to try to continue a "civilisation" in Northern Europe for a few years.
The vast majority of those who have been campaigning the healing of Gaia over the past four or five decades believe that the healing must take place through system change, not through one single ex-system technology. Everyone from presidents to waste collectors must play their part in a radical change in attitude and behaviour, using a vide variety of safe, human scale technologies which interact together in a beneficial way.
Will you join us in calling for such a system change?
Dr Richard Lawson
Green Party Activist
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