Global Culture

Today, a year ago, I started this blog. One hundred and fifty posts later I’m facing yet another “writer’s block”. As an exercise to get myself to start writing quickly (it is almost midnight), I try to remember the important events of the last year: certainly the highlight would have to be [...]

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One of my favorite sites, WorldChanging posted the article Can Migration Change the World? by Alex Steffen. I applaud the fact that migration is recognized as a force that can shape the world and lead positive change:
Maybe we need to start to rethink migration, not in the light of the discussions we’ve had in [...]

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A new take on the old debate of homogenization of culture in hands of global corporations is brought by the Global Politician with an article by Trish Hallmark. Exploring the usual argument about how deep american culture has penetrated other countries and whether or not this has had a positive influence on them [...]

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Let’s start with a powerful assumption: a panel of experts has used the vast resources of the web to determine who is the utmost global citizen. To keep thinks colorful, we shall call him Phileas Fogg. A British citizen with known addresses in London, San Francisco, Manhattan, Dublin, Tokyo & Istanbul; manages [...]

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It is too easy to pick on the global warming skeptics that have used crazy arguments such as
the possible detonation, on uninhabited land north of 70° latitude, say, of a limited number of hydrogen bombs. [...] The presence of those particles would serve to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching most of the Arctic’s surface. [...]

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With his post Global Warming Is Not a Threat But the Environmentalist Response to It Is, George Reisman comes to the rescue of the capitalist values that justify the actions of global corporations as they continue their irresponsible abuse of the planet.
Since I posted my own comentary about the IPCC report about a month ago, [...]

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In 2006: just the beginning, I hinted at the fact that with the growing popularity of this blog this year would see a number of improvements to take the idea even further. It has been stimulating to dig all corners of the web for clues about the emergence of a Global Culture. However, [...]

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