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Contributors to the Great Debate
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.
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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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Useful Links
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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