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Viv Regan

Viv Regan
Viv Regan is Assistant Director of education charity, NGO, NVYO WORLDwrite which campaigns for global equality. She is also Producer of Chew on it productions and is a freelance assessor of youth programmes and co-director of the educational consultancy ME-WE.

In partnership with The Great Debate, Viv has been central to the development of the ongoing series of day conferences and workshops on Development, Sustainability and Environment (DSE) (DSE1, DSE2, DSE3 and Developing World Challenges 2008), chairing the debate on Sustainability Here and Now in September 2003, on the panel of What Future for Environmentalism? in October 2005, chairing Water Resources and the Future in March 2007 and on the panel of I'm a Subsistence Farmer ... Get Me Out Of Here! in March 2008.

Viv Regan says:

'Apparently the green way is the only way and anyone who questions this is branded morally inferior or downright peculiar. I read in my local council’s glossy newsletter that I may be penalised for not using my green recycling bin, isn’t this authoritarianism run riot? Ken Livingstone meanwhile has advised us not to Flush and has recently refused plans for a desalination plant at Beckton on environmental grounds. Ken it seems is more even more behiind the times than the parasitic Royal Family who have announced plans for a £1 million 200 kilowatt hydroelectricity scheme on the River Thames (no doubt to keep Windsor Castle maintained rather than provide for the plebs).

'But should we really be keeping up with the Jones’s by recycling and flushing only when necessary or should we be washing our hands of it all? Environmentalism is based on a belief that we, humanity, are a problem and that we, the problem, can save the planet by “getting ‘orf the land”, consuming less and swilling our aspirations down the plug hole. Isn’t this a re-run of the bad old days but at a time when it makes no sense? Whilst I do not know anybody, including myself, who wants to destroy the planet I will never support the future greens have in mind for us – a future that limits our humanity and capacity to develop, live a lot and have more for all.'



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WORLDwrite
WORLDwrite Crew
Keeping Africa Small web site and trailer
Edited video of Keeping Africa Small debate held in March 2008
I'm a Subsistence Farmer ... Get Me Out of Here! web site and trailer
Edited video of I'm a Subsistence Farmer ... Get Me Out of Here! debate held in March 2008
Think Big web site and trailer
A Letter to Geldof web site and trailer
Ceri Dingle

The Great Debate: Developing World Challenges
Proceedings of the First Workshop on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE2: The Second Workshop on Development, Sustainability and Environment
Proceedings of DSE3: The Third Workshop on Development, Sustainability and Environment

Can Technology Make Poverty History? Channel 4
Development should mean more than survival by Daniel Ben-Ami, January 2005
Hand pumps are not good enough spiked-science debates, July 2003
Flush Toilets Called 'Environmental Disaster June 2003
Legacy of Environmentalism gone wrong: The return of the little shack out back by Judi McLeod, June 30, 2003
Sustainable Development Called 'Antithesis of Human Progress' by Marc Morano, September 2002
Earth summit rows continue August 2002
Reflections on Policy in Republic of South Africa by Caspar Hewett, June 2003
Where there's the will, there's water by Ceri Dingle and Esme Young

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