In November 2009 AISEC along with Kairos Futures conducted a survey of over 3,000 young people from around 122 countries about their views on climate change. The results were telling. 73% of respondents believe climate change to be a greater threat to society than the war or terrorism, and nearly all see their main responsibility as being to leave the world in better shape than their parents did. Here is a run down of their findings.

Few writers have devoted more time to the everalsting conflict between Good and Evil, War and Peace, Love and Violence than Leo Tolstoy and it was in helping a friend compile a book on Malcolm Muggeridge that I first discovered the story of the Green Stick.  What I  also learned of Muggeridge was his endeavours in the 1930s to report on Stalin's man made Famine which he described as  "“one of the most monstrous crimes in history, so terrible that people in the future will scarcely believe it ever happened.”.  It was an experience that haunted him for the rest of his life. One of my favourite extracts from the 1970s TV series Kung Fu, is the scene where two youths report to their master having been robbed. The lesson learned is that "We affirm the good in man through trust and deal with evil through strength". That we should not seek reward in striving for an ideal. but that trust can lead to love.  Our own experience was to discover the story which was to become know as 'Death...