Author: george

The Vain Pursuit of the Exotic

Tourism extracts the differences between ourselves and other people

Our treatment of gypsies and travellers reveals Little England at its worst: mean-spirited, vindictive and narrow-minded.

Review of Slide Mountain, or The Folly of Owning Nature, by Theodore Steinberg

Reductionism is making science ever less relevant to our lives.

A new campaign is born

Review of: The River Stops Here: How One Man’s Battle to Save His Valley Changed the Fate of California. Ted Simon, Random House, New York.

Nearly all the mahogany leaving Brazil has been taken, illegally, from protected reserves

The Government’s official position is that we should pour our hazardous waste down the drain.

The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people

There are no excuses for not joining the protest against the Newbury bypass

Britain needs a liberation theology movement

The superstores are changing the world to suit themselves

Roads protesters are bringing art and necessity back together, sowing the seeds of cultural renewal

A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people

A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers

The Government’s repressive new laws contain eerie similarities to statutes passed hundreds of years ago

Environmentalism is at the vanguard of Britain’s movements for political change

In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed

One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai

Did Ledumen, the celebrated Samburu prophet, know I was coming to visit him three months before I decided to do so?