Gluttony is Feeding Climate Change
Americans waste up to 60% of their food when it's on their plates. In Sub-Saharan Africa, it's 5%. So we don't have a food shortage issue, we have a wastage and distribution problem.
The Vanishing Public Intellectual
One of the scarcest commodities of our time is intellectual honesty.
COVID-19 and the Future of Asian Conservation
This was a huge decision - in the space of the last 2 months, 20,000 wildlife farms have been closed down across China.
Asia Reshaped: COVID-19 and the Future
A country that can't feed its own people in this new era is essentially exposed to the greatest possible risk
The Commonality of COVID-19 Containment
Keeping The Moral Compass
The fault comes when people believe the law is a tradeable commodity, that it can be bought and sold for personal or commercial gains.
Not Investing in Denial
Investment conference on climate change has a silent contract between the audience and speaker: that neither party will suggest anyone in the room is to blame. They're prisoners to an existing mantra that sugar-coats climate change with "win-win" scenarios. Frankly, this is an abdication of responsibility and denial.
How natural disasters should be approached
Cyclone Fani affected 10 million people in India, but only 89 were killed. The 1999 Odisha cyclone killed over 10 thousand.