Whatever becomes a scientific object becomes a problem, which in turn requires management, human intervention. No thing can be left as is, because that is risky. If it can be measured, it can be managed, as they say in business schools worldwide. China, or rather the Chinese Communist Party, is obsessed with risk, in fact […]
SUSTAINABLE WILDLIFE, SUSTAINABLE TIBETAN LIVELIHOODS “The industrial powerhouse China and major energy exporters are doing almost nothing to limit carbon dioxide emissions.” That is how The Guardian sums up China’s inaction on climate change, summarising a 2018 report in a leading scientific journal warning against the likelihood of global warming spiralling out of control. The […]
As the Americans say, you can put lipstick on a pig, but ….. it’s still a pig. You can dress up a beguilingly humanoid robot in Tibetan gear, in a pink and yellow outfit, top her whirring machinery brain with a Tibetan braided hair wig, but she’s still, she tells us, the solution to human […]
Probably the best thing I did in my life was a simple idea, implemented with a typewriter and airmail envelope: to arrange for Gyalwa Rinpoche and Panchen Rinpoche to have in indepth, free, unmonitored conversation without other parties listening in. Since January 28, 2019 is the 30th anniversary of the passing of the tenth Panchen […]