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		<title>&#8220;The plane will go anyway&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I choose not to fly as much as possible. People don&#8217;t like to hear this, because they can already feel a potential judgment coming of their own actions or choices. But let me explain why first. It&#8217;s not because I&#8217;m scared or because I don&#8217;t like looking at the clouds from above (in fact I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/27/12/2011/the-plane-will-go-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Machu Picchu: “100 years of prostitution of Andean culture”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month saw the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu. Its discovery by the West, that is: it was in July 1911 that Hiram Bingham, a Yale historian, was led to the already 400-year old site by a local shepherd boy, and announced the presence of the Machu Picchu estate to the world. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/28/07/2011/machu-picchu-%e2%80%9c100-years-of-prostitution-of-andean-culture%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>The span of a life. How long ago is history?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Second World War ended 66 years ago. Seems like a long time? It’s really not. In fact, I was born at the midpoint between then and now. There is only as much time separating me now from my birth as separates my birth from the death of Hitler… the Nazi regime, the deaths of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/15/06/2011/the-span-of-a-life-how-long-ago-is-history/</link>
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		<title>Something rotten in the state of Peru</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peru must, I think, have the most dysfunctional democracy I have encountered yet on my travels. And after the US, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras, that&#8217;s saying something. Tomorrow Peruvians go to the polls to decide how to vote in their Presidential election. There are only two candidates left: Ollanta Humala, a left-wing military officer and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/04/06/2011/something-rotten-in-the-state-of-peru/</link>
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		<title>Is Charlie Sheen everything that’s wrong with America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t expect my next blog post to be about Charlie Sheen. I am writing a long comparative history of the Cuban and Guatemalan revolutions, but it seems to be without end, so I thought dissing “Two and a Half Men” would be some comparatively low-hanging fruit. The dreaded sit-com was on in the corner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/18/04/2011/is-charlie-sheen-everything-that%e2%80%99s-wrong-with-america/</link>
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		<title>4 tuktuks, 3 airplanes and a Mississippi steamboat &#8211; my Carbon Footprint in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done a lot of travelling in 2010. Namely across the Atlantic, looping around the USA, into the Caribbean and travelling down Central America as far as Nicaragua. So naturally I&#8217;m concerned about what the cost is to our shared natural environment of all my wanderings. From the outset I&#8217;ve tried to travel as environmentally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/15/01/2011/4-tuktuks-3-planes-and-a-mississippi-steamboat-my-carbon-footprint-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Climate Change and Cancún &#8211; The politicians have failed. Now it&#8217;s up to us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The outcome this week of the climate change conference in Cancún can be read two ways. Yes, multilateralism (although not the role of the UN) has been saved, and as one minister timidly put it &#8220;people are still talking to each other&#8221;. But as Greenpeace have commented, &#8220;The conference may have saved the multilateral process after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/12/12/2010/climate-change-and-cancun-the-politicians-have-failed-now-its-up-to-us/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the big deal with Climate Change?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d have to ask myself that question, but I do find that questioning one&#8217;s own beliefs is the first step towards being able to communicate them to others. And here in Guatemala it&#8217;s become obvious to me that I need to have a good answer to the question &#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/23/11/2010/whats-the-big-deal-with-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Why am I vegetarian?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s something I get asked often enough. I’ve been travelling for nearly eight months now and it’s a daily question: if not from other people but for myself. Even in the USA, finding vegetarian food was not the easiest thing. Finding vegan food was harder again, and, yes, I quite often ate vegetarian instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/05/09/2010/why-am-i-vegetarian/</link>
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		<title>The Bahamas &#8211; sun, sea, sand &amp; slavery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is Emancipation Day, not just in the Bahamas, but all across the former British empire. 176 years ago &#8211; in 1834 &#8211; my nation, Britain, finally abolished slavery. The Bahamas as a nation, however, is only five years older than me&#8230; not until 1973 did the Bahamas became independent from Britain &#8211; they celebrated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.dailyplanet.org.uk/02/08/2010/the-bahamas-sun-sea-sand-slavery/</link>
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