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William is a 41 year old man from Corregidora, Queretaro, Mexico

A British father, husband, writer and teacher, living the Latin life since 2006.
Love demands that we invest time to bring others closer to us, to speak softly instead of arguing, to understand rather than to condemn.
Truth demands that we scale back our destructive practices, use less, waste less and reuse or recycle what we can. Science has proved that the ecosystem supporting all our activities is at breaking point. Information and the belief that individual actions can make a difference are the tools we need to heal the world.
Justice demands that all children have the same chance in life, wherever they are born and whoever their parents may be. It demands that we consider the effects of our actions on other people, and on the animals with which we share this planet.
Capitalism demands that we spend more cash, buy more junk, and work longer and harder. Its spokespeople, the advertisers, politicians and corporate journalists, remind us of this a hundred times a day.
I'm for love, truth and justice - when I'm not mad as hell about the latest outrage.

  • Will & Zarg | On writing and the end of the world

    Rated Nov 02 2011 • 2 reviews • blogs • wordpress.com

    With StumbleUpon no longer friendly to reviews (I suppose they make their money from clicks, not words), I have exported my blog to Wordpress: Will and Zarg.

  • Why is our consumption falling? | Environment | The Guar...

    Rated Nov 01 2011 • 2 reviews • economics, environment • guardian.co.uk

    Since 2001, UK consumption seems to have fallen in spite of rising economic growth. If true, this 'decoupling' of consumption from growth offers hope to a world running low on natural resources. Eating less, buying digital products and re-use may have something to do with this.

    It is unlikely, however, that many other countries can follow this path. Better, then, to remind all that economic growth does not lead to happiness. Once this is accepted, we can all consume less without fear.

    The calorific intake of Britons has been falling for around 40 years.

  • BBC News - How scary is a financial transactions tax?

    Rated Sep 29 2011 • 1 review • economics, blogs, news • bbc.co.uk

    The UK is expected to block a proposed EU-wide tax on financial transactions, unless it is applied worldwide (which it won't be, due to US politicians serving business interests and not the interests of their people).

    Most of these transactions are nothing to do with wealth creation but are transfer payments from poor to rich and from worker to owner. They are a drag on the real economy and hugely destabilising.

    Even though a transactions tax may help divert capitalism from its self-destructive path, those addicted to gambling and greed seem hell-bent on going down with the ship.

    The tax would hit the City of London hard, but it would still help Britain as a whole.

  • 9/11 lost decade: The American dream, and...

    Rated Sep 11 2011 • 1 review • usa • independent.co.uk

    What of the tribute lights over Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, where 80 men, women and children have been killed for every victim of 9/11?

    Illuminating: the site of the Twin Towers in Lower Manhattan.

  • A world without borders makes economic sense | Michael A...

    Rated Sep 06 2011 • 1 review • economics, migration • guardian.co.uk

    If we are to run a system of global free trade (and I'm not certain that we should), then it make sense that the various factors of production - land, labour, capital and enterprise - should be as mobile as possible. Okay, land is pretty much fixed, but the other three, right? According to capitalist economic theory, the answer is yes. But 'capitalism' is run by the capitalists, and for them it makes no sense.

    Rich people want to be able to send their money around the world to find the cheapest labour to exploit - one country at a time. If labour were allowed to move freely, wages would begin to equalise and the game would be up for the rich. Hence they convince us to support closed borders by drumming up fear and using the sense of nationalism they created at the dawn of the industrial revolution. And we let them.

    Border controls: keeping the world poor and the rich rich.

  • Avaaz - Australia: the next great hope for climate

    Rated Sep 01 2011 • 1 review • activism, environment • avaaz.org

    Carbon pricing forces the worst polluters to reform and generates revenue for green projects. This win-win measure has already come to Costa Rica, Denmark and Sweden. If Australia is next, will it eventually become a mainstream global environmental policy?

    Our choice for the new generation: a green future or a dim future.

  • Noam Chomsky on Adam Smith _ Invisible Hand -...

    Rated Aug 27 2011 • 1 review • capitalism, video • youtube.com

    Adam Smith's invisible hand does not drive the market toward optimal solutions - it drives capitalists to invest close to home where they can keep an eye on their money. Along with Keynes and just about every other economist, Smith is frequently misunderstood and misrepresented by those with a policy to sell.


  • Tomgram: David Bromwich, George W. Obama? | TomDispatch

    Rated Aug 25 2011 • 4 reviews • politics • tomdispatch.com

    Useful reminders of a bygone age...

    On 21 January 2009, President Barack Obama signed an executive order 'requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.' No ifs, no buts, just closed. CNN called it 'a clean break from the Bush administration.' On the same day he hailed a 'new era of openness': 'every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,' said he. Then along came Wikileaks.

    Nope. Obama campaign poster, from Anthony Baker on Flickr.

  • Young Russians splash out £75,000 on Champagne and ...

    Rated Aug 22 2011 • 1 review • wine • telegraph.co.uk

    Everything about this story is obscene. A club frequented by the Italian prime minister charges 900 euros for a bottle of champagne. Eight young people get through 90 bottles of the stuff in one night. They leave without paying the bill.

    When will our fascination with the rich and famous turn to disgust? When will we overturn this system which allows wastrels to prosper while hard-working people live in slums?

    Spray it around: champagne at 900 euros a bottle.