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CM31: Climate
Ehsan Masood fears a coming mass extinction, Medina Tenour Whiteman sings the praises of water, Giles Goddard denounces Western attitudes to the environment, Christopher B Jones deliberates on global weirding, James Brooks joins the Extinction Rebellion demonstrations, Gordon Blaine Steffey exposes the deceit and bullshit of climate deniers, Hafeez Burhan Khan experiences the dry heat of Wadi Rum, Tawseef Khan worries about the plight of climate refugees, Shanka Mesa Siverio attempts to build prosperous communities, Moiz Bohra watches the gas and oil flares in Qatar, Muhammad Akbar Notezai witnesses the impact of climate change on Pakistani villages, C Scott Jordan wants to negotiate the meaning of sustainability (by watching films!), Greenpeace illustrate plastic pollution, Yovanka Paquete Perdigao suggests Game of Thrones is a climate allegory, Mohamed Aidid and Fareha Rahman issue a call to arms, and we list seven climate-denying wonders of the world.
Also in this issue: Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton samples the delights on offer at the Venice Biennale, Gazala Khan can’t get India out of her mind, Samia Rahman ponders polygamy, short stories by Uzma Ali and Hafsa Abdurrahman, poems by Farid Bitar and Helen Moore, and M Iqbal Asaria remembers S M Idris, the legendary people’s champion of Malaysia.
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In this issue
Introduction: End Game by Ehsan Masood
There is a small box-shaped hedge at the front of the house where I live in the southeast of England. It’s adjacent to the main front ...
The Barakah of Water by Medina Tenour Whiteman
‘We created every living thing from water’.
Qur’an 24:45
Imagine a valley where orange trees nestle ...
In Love and Rage by James Brooks
On 17 November 2018, my life changed.
Until then, for most of it, I’d felt like a spy abandoned behind enemy lines. The organisation ...
Running on Empty by Hafeez Burhan Khan
A 5.30pm touch down at Aqaba airport in December 2018.We only have hand luggage so breeze through passport control.There’s a bank inside ...
On Our Future by Mohamed Aidid (age 15) and Fareha Rahman (age 15)
This is an emergency. Time is running out and everything you know, everyone you love is at risk. Your friends, your family, the entire global ...
Seven Climate-Denying Wonders of the World
Contrarians have always existed. Sometimes celebrated, other times ridiculed. Subversives who defy dominant thinking to advocate an alternative ...