Archive for the ‘Peace and disarmament’ Category

US moral authority & soft power in the era of climate change

Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Dan Cass
Filed under Peace and disarmament, General, Climate change | Global warming, Renewable energy | No Comments

Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Ambassador of the USA to Australia, was asked on ABC Breakfast yesterday how he felt about his country’s declining moral authority.
Steve Cannane, presenter of Summer Breakfast, topped and tailed the long interview with diplomatic questions but the middle was a series of tough questions about Iraq, WMD, Gitmo, torture. (It was […]

Sydney Uni summer school asks: is coal like war?

Posted on January 8th, 2009 by Dan Cass
Filed under Peace and disarmament, Green New Deal, Coal, Climate change | Global warming | 1 Comment

Today was a blast from the past, when I presented a session of the University of Sydney summer school’s program on peace and the environment. They were a mixed bunch of post-grads from various continents and walks of life, including a Canadian Greenpeace activist who had tried to stop the berthing of a US […]