Debate – Sublime

Who’s Next?

Laura Santamaria — Mon, 02 May 2016 12:00:51 +0000

As I look out on the world scene, I marvel that anyone has any hope at all of a happy and secure future! Humanity is in a bad way – global terrorism, petty crime and violence, poverty and exploitation, global recession, drugs and alcohol addiction, AIDS epidemics and Zika virus outbreak, the proliferation of armaments...

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Finding Your Soul

Laura Santamaria — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 18:10:19 +0000

Some years ago, I was talking to a young woman who, with her husband, was preparing to work with an aid agency in the developing world. It sounded like quite a sacrifice they were making, and I asked her how they had received this vocation. This was the story she told me. When she was...

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Winner Take All

Naz K Rasmussen — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:25:22 +0000

China’s economy only grew 7.8% in 2012, its lowest in 13 years, a stark contrast to Europe’s negative growth in the same period. As if that weren’t enough, the superpower is set to surpass America as the biggest economy on Earth around 2025. China’s ‘peaceful rise’, coined by the Communist Party to describe its foreign policy, has...

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Cancel The Apocalypse

Viki Johnson — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:33:42 +0000

Anxiety of an impending apocalypse has gripped humanity through the ages with curious consistency. Whether spiritual or religious, the musings of a madman or the tendency for humans to overestimate risk of unlikely but potentially catastrophic events; history is beset with apocalyptic prophecies and expectations. Cancel the Apocalypse, the latest book by author and campaigner...

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The Eden Prescription

Laura Santamaria — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000

‘The science of cancer started back in the 1920s, when it was understood to be due to uncontrolled cell division. Since cells divide at the nucleus first, the pharmaceutical industry targeted the nucleus. But progress was slow. By 1960, the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) had approved only six anti-cancer drugs – all of...

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Sublime Reviews… You’ve Been Trumped

Aine Carlin — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 10:50:38 +0000

Initially one worries about the bias. The first half hour of the film paints an unflattering picture of Trump, and you start to worry that this will be a one-sided affair. The emphasis is on heritage and memory, and you expect the film to play out as a battle between old and new. Yet as...

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Whale Warrior Released!

Aine Carlin — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:27:56 +0000

Not one to bow to authority, Paul Watson, has taken his own approach to whale conservation for many years now and he shows no sign of stopping. A co-founder of Greenpeace and subsequently conservation society the Sea Shepherd, Watson has made it his mission to protect cetaceans from the tip of the (usually Japanese) harpoon,...

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Bigger and Not Better

Jeremy Leggett — Sat, 05 May 2012 17:20:30 +0000

The concept of duty is defined in the workplace easily enough with a tightly drafted job description. But that covers only my duty to my employer. What of my duty to society, beyond employment? Here there are no bullet-point templates. As for going beyond duty – surely an objective a good society would encourage in its citizens – what might that mean, in today’s world? The Financial Times recently ran a series of articles entitled ‘Capitalism in Crisis’.

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The Fur’s Flying

Frances Corner — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:54:39 +0000

Why are fur sales rising? The case against fur was made so strongly in the 1980s that many people in the fashion industry wondered if it could ever make a comeback, particularly as technology was producing faux fur that no longer looked cheap and nasty but could easily be mistaken for the ‘real thing’. Yet this realism itself could be part of the reason for fur’s quiet reacceptance.

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Incredible Me

Jeremy Leggett — Sun, 01 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000

A phase of regeneration in society is an entirely feasible prospect in the times ahead. It could be sparked at the intersection of the three great crises of our times: the crises in finance, in climate and in energy. Such a regeneration could be a global renaissance, a road capable of leading to a much better future than the one that looks probable for humankind at present. Sadly, this positive outcome is far from guaranteed.

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