Opinion

Our ‘one world’ chimera

In more ways than one the advent of the COVID-19 global pandemic has caused the world to ‘stand still,’ awakening the human community to its collective frailties, not least, what now appears to be a dismantling of that ‘one world to share’ chimera which, over time, and influenced by the Charter of the UN,   we may have deluded ourselves into thinking of as a reality.

Exxon’s gas seal problem

On Friday, ExxonMobil issued a terse statement on its offshore  oil extraction operations notifying that it had had to resume gas flaring above pilot levels because of a defective seal.

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