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Ben King

@ComplexityC4D

Independent complexity management & C4D consultant concerned about the current state of the climate regime in particular. Images:http://t.co/5ZI7PtmqmH

Joined May 2014
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We’re going to to laugh at ourselves for thinking complexity theory had to do with computers.
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Dear donors, can you please stop measuring poverty and help us make some serious reform before it is too late! @dfid @usaid_info @WorldBank
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"Lima climate change talks end in agreement - but who won?" theguardian.com/environment/… FFS. Either *everyone* won, or *no-one* won. Simple.
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"Even with very cheap, zero carbon energy, we can’t have endless growth nor human progress defined by shopping.” motherboard.vice.com/read/ho…
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CEDA@weareceda11 Dec 2014
.@USAID infiltrated Cuba's hip-hop community, undermining the work of passionate activists: theguardian.com/world/2014/d…
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Replying to @Grimeandreason
@Grimeandreason @juliapgjones I wonder why we all, semi-independently, have that memory?
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Replying to @Grimeandreason
@Grimeandreason @juliapgjones is correct abt what UNFCC says the + stands for. Yet, we all remember the + being used to mean co-benefits...
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#Complexity is to political #economy as #science was to #religion. They made a choice. Now we must too. Political and economic secularism.
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Stop Trying to Save the World newrepublic.com/article/1201… via @tnr @grimeandreason @ComplexityC4D #globaldev #philanthropy #poverty
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Person under a tree; hamlet; village; town; city; collections of cities can and should all be considered commonalities on different scales.
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This Cedric de Coning piece on how external interventions affect local capacity is a good companion piece. actlocalfirst.org/2013/05/co… – at Washington, DC
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Neoliberalism is a religion and I'm not a believer
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danny@dvaldez4417 Nov 2014
complexity theory is giving me stoner logic.
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In America, the top 0.1% hold 22% of America's wealth, almost the same share as the bottom 90% econ.st/1smtnbv
Image from The Economist (@TheEconomist)
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Corporate profits hit a record high of $1.68 trillion. What trickled down to workers hit its lowest point since 1950
Image from Lorene Oikawa (@lorene1voice)
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Replying to @ComplexityC4D
@ComplexityC4D have made enquiries internally. In the meantime one of our research associates blogged this on #TPP globalisationanddevelopment.…
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Senator who wrote a climate change book called "The Greatest Hoax" to take over the Senate's environment committee. on.tnr.com/1xdQ3y6
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#IPCC: Climate change brings "severe, pervasive & irreversible impacts for people & ecosystems” nyti.ms/10nmJKB
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They openly don't care, in fact, it's their aim, to make people want things regardless of utility, or whether they can afford it.
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In 100 years, we will (hopefully) look back on this time with horror. Power using cultural production to shape psyches for profit en masse.
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