Articles by Caspar Henderson

Monday 1st March
Saturday 12th December
Saturday 15th August

Arthur C Helton: a tribute

A voice for human rights, and our friend, died in Baghdad. An openDemocracy salute 
Sunday 25th March

'Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet,' Mark Lynas

Climate change is big, complex and scary. While Mark Lynas's new book helps readers get to grips with the issue, Caspar Henderson offers six caveats.
Monday 5th March

'Coral - A Pessimist in Paradise,' Steve Jones

Mankind is rapidly destroying ancient coral reefs. Why care? Caspar Henderson reviews Steve Jones’s new book on the wondrous ecosystems and finds it wanting.
Wednesday 24th January

The president's new clothes

George W Bush's seventh state of the union speech offered a series of measures to increase the United States's energy security. Spin or substance, asks Caspar Henderson.
Thursday 26th January

'In Gods We Trust: the evolutionary landscape of religion', Scott Atran

"The evolutionary and psychological origins of religion."
Monday 9th January

The metamorphosis of oil?

Can oil companies transform in response to the challenge of climate change? Caspar Henderson sidesteps the blame game and picks out key roles for politics and citizens.
Thursday 10th November

'Climate Change Begins at Home,' Dave Reay

“This entertaining and authoritative book makes the complexities of climatology understandable and challenges readers to rethink their notions of 'doing their bit'.”
Wednesday 12th October

'A Brief History of Neoliberalism,' David Harvey

“The political-economic story of where neoliberalisation came from.”
Wednesday 31st August

'The Republican War on Science,' Chris Mooney

“A compelling and frightening account of (the US) government’s increasing unwillingness to distinguish between legitimate research and ideologically driven pseudoscience.”
Wednesday 8th June

The politics of climate change: a debate guide

openDemocracy’s debate on climate change focuses on four themes – climate politics, science and environment, creative energy, and zero carbon city – with one common focus: the need to understand perhaps the world’s single most important problem. The debate editor Caspar Henderson offers a “cyberwalk” guide to a two-month feature with a century-long perspective.
Wednesday 4th May

Arctic dreams

The work of composer Max Eastley and photographer David Buckland makes people think and feel differently about climate change. Caspar Henderson introduces their sound-image collaboration.
Wednesday 20th April

What is the carbon counter?

openDemocracy’s carbon counter measures the second-by-second rise of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Caspar Henderson explains how it works.
Thursday 3rd February

Portraits from the World Social Forum

Brazilian landless workers, Indian child labour campaigners, Canadian media activists all carried their hopes to the fifth World Social Forum. openDemocracy’s Porto Alegre team – Caspar Henderson, Solana Larsen, Vince Medeiros – talked to them.
Friday 7th January

Tsunami coming for us all

The tsunami that swept across the Indian ocean on 26 December 2004 was cataclysmic. Our Globalisation Editor Caspar Henderson asks what it means for the future of an interconnected world.
Thursday 23rd December

Top ten in 2004

openDemocracy readers voted with their mouse clicks for their top ten articles in 2004. They showed themselves to be concerned above all about Iraq, terrorism and US power, reports Caspar Henderson. Many readers did pause, however, to consider how bridges may be built between cultures.
Wednesday 22nd September

The marriage of Mars and Venus? Europe's search for human security

A proposed new “human security doctrine for Europe” launched on 15 September 2004 in Barcelona is an opportunity to examine what Europeans can do about massive human rights violations in the 21st century.
Wednesday 15th September

A Pacific Odyssey

Caspar Henderson visits a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean state of Palau to help protect coral reefs against the effects of global climate change. In the process he encounters a world of natural beauty, enriching humanity, and surprising history that makes him reflect on life’s fundamentals.
Tuesday 1st June

The daze after tomorrow

A new Hollywood disaster film fantasises the convulsive effects of global climate change. But it’s the real world of Haiti and the Dominican Republic that blows Caspar Henderson away.
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