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What We Must Do to Help Bring Peace to Palestine & Israel

For those of us in the international community watching the devastating carnage in Palestine, the powerlessness is nauseating, but there is…

6 min readOct 20, 2023

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What We Must Do to Help Bring Peace to Palestine & Israel

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Simon Whalley

Why Carbon Capture Really and Truly Sucks

“Finally! Bill Gates and Elon Musk Agree on Something” the headline says. I wonder what they might agree on? Could it be that neoliberal…

5 min readDec 14, 2021

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Why Carbon Capture Really and Truly Sucks

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Simon Whalley

The War We Must Fight

“Wally, Wally, quick, come and look at this!” These were the words of my roommate on a balmy Taiwanese evening on September 11th, 2001…

6 min readSep 12, 2021

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The War We Must Fight

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Simon Whalley

Space Seeking Psychopaths

Our children will inherit dead ecosystems and an unlivable planet. All so the richest can enjoy short ego boosting trips to space.

6 min readJul 31, 2021

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Space Seeking Psychopaths

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Simon Whalley

There’s a Monster in our Oceans

Spielberg portrays sharks as dangerously vengeful, yet statistics tell a completely different story.

6 min readJul 16, 2021

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There’s a Monster in our Oceans

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Simon Whalley

Sweat and tears, or blood. The choice is ours.

This is just the opening salvo. As the American west is gripped by potentially the worst drought since algebra was invented 1,200 years ago…

6 min readJul 2, 2021

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Sweat and tears, or blood. The choice is ours.

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Simon Whalley

Soviet Style Rekognition

In an unusual step for a professional athlete, French World Cup winner Antoine Griezmann terminated his sponsorship deal with Chinese…

5 min readDec 11, 2020

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Soviet Style Rekognition

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Simon Whalley

Confessions of a former Trump Supporter

There are times in our lives where we all have to hold our hands up and say, “Father I have sinned”. My most recent need to confess dates…

6 min readNov 9, 2020

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Confessions of a former Trump Supporter

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Simon Whalley

How to fund the salvation of humanity

Imagine a world in which we had no fear of changing climates, rising seas and temperatures, mass extinctions, or the obscene income…

7 min readAug 16, 2020

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How to fund the salvation of humanity

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Simon Whalley

It’s our right, but it isn’t right

As Covid-19 continues its spread around the world, with 8,993,659 confirmed cases and 469,587 deaths, the vast majority of the population…

5 min readJun 24, 2020

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Simon Whalley

Simon Whalley

Simon is the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion Japan. He is the author of the upcoming book, Dear Indy: A Father’s Plea for Climate Action.

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