I’m a big believer in the principles behind REDD, namely: Globally, forests are massively undervalued. Carbon sequestration is one of those typically vital but undervalued services that forests perform for us. Now that at least some people are prepared to pay something to abate carbon emissions, it seems crazy to ignore this possibility to value [...]
Archive for the ‘Whimsy’ Category
22 Mar
Ecocartoonery
Some great cartoons on Conservation Bytes (with bigger archive here). I can’t say I agree with all the points being made, but I do like some of the humour!
19 Dec
Seasonal Musings
“Do they know it’s Christmas time at all?” sang Bob et al. For the 29% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa who are Muslim, I imagine this is a rather silly question. How many Band Aid singers know that 28th September is Confucius’s birthday? And the starving Ethiopians who had inspired the song would dispute the [...]
19 Dec
Dilbert does Development
A larger than expected number of Dilbert comic strips seem to have a surprising connection to international development, and I note my fellow bloggers using them as illustrations from time to time. Did Scott Adams once work in the voluntary sector or is there just a lot of cross over with business thinking? The truth [...]
20 Jul
Post-colonialist species names?
I was quickly perusing this story about the Horton Plains slender loris not being extinct after all – always nice to get some good news – when it struck me that if the article hadn’t told me the aforementioned loris was from Sri Lanka, I would have no idea where it was from. According to [...]
15 Jul
All we need are brains
Hand Relief International is a very amusing blog, but presumably not widely read outside development circles. So it’s nice to see some satire on development reaching more mainstream sites, see here. And it’s got some bite, attacking one of the classic fallacies of development thinking: that all we need are some really bright people, and [...]
14 Jun
Is this a bad time to be associated with the colour green?
A lot of Jihadist organisations use flags with a strong green element. Green is one of BP’s colours. And then there is England’s goalkeeper. Let’s hope this doesn’t spell bad news for the environmental movement!
