STWR - Share The World's Resources

Keynes' prediction in the 1930s of a 'new era of leisure' will not transpire while a quarter of the world lives in abject poverty, nor while a good slice of those living in developed countries are not sharing in economic prosperity, says Larry Elliot.

A densely populated civilisation is not possible to sustain without greatly reducing the waste generation, overcoming the commercial exploitation of urban land, and addressing the grotesque discontinuities we observe in our urban centres today, writes Mahbubur Rahman.

Carbon offset schemes, as espoused by Coldplay et al, are no solution to climate change. As long as we think that we can compensate for our consumption with a little extra cash, we come no closer to the kinds of change needed to fend off global warming, argues Melissa Checker.

The World Bank has warned that world poverty is much greater than previously thought. It has revised its previous estimate and now says that 1.4 billion people live in poverty, based on a new poverty line of $1.25 per day, reports Steve Schifferes.

Today multinational corporations are more powerful then ever, especially over workers and the government - and politics is more about avoiding this central topic than ever before, says Ralph Nader.

Financial firms have become the dominant players in commodity markets, and their speculative activity has led to the price increases in oil and foodgrains, argues Jayati Ghosh.

A "toxic combination" of bad policies, economics and politics is killing people on a large scale, according to a new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Regarded as one of the leading experts on Philippine trade and agriculture issues, Riza Bernabe was interviewed on the latest collapse of the WTO "Doha Round" trade negotiations. By Walden Bello.

Waste plays a central role in the ongoing food crisis as immense amounts of food are lost to processing, transport, sale, and consumption, says a report  released during World Water Week.

Where once they used gunboats and sepoys, the rich nations now use chequebooks and lawyers to seize food from the hungry. The scramble for resources has begun, but - in the short term at any rate - we will hardly notice, writes George Monbiot.