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Railways can be their own world. With good management, this can mean it’s easier to do things on the railways than in other parts of an economy. That should be a big opportunity for reducing climate emissions by getting passengers off the roads and out of the skies. But we must chnage the way we use rail networks to help people – and not to help the interests of empires and businesses which built them and run them now. This edition looks at how we can make a start on this.
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Railways can be their own world. With good management, this can mean it’s easier to do things on the railways than in other parts of an economy. That should be a big opportunity for reducing climate emissions by getting passengers off the roads and out of the skies. But we must change the way we use rail networks to help people – and not to help the interests of empires and businesses which built them and run them now. This edition looks at how we can make a start on this.
  
 
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Whose railway is it anyway?

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Railways can be their own world. With good management, this can mean it’s easier to do things on the railways than in other parts of an economy. That should be a big opportunity for reducing climate emissions by getting passengers off the roads and out of the skies. But we must change the way we use rail networks to help people – and not to help the interests of empires and businesses which built them and run them now. This edition looks at how we can make a start on this.

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Zdob și Zdub is a rock band from Moldova. They wrote a song about a train journey for the 2022 Eurovision. Read how the song shows that Moldova is between two cultures, East and West.

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The Global South owes trillions of dollars to the North. Cancelling the debts would help the poorer countries and the climnate crisis.

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In India the government is stopping protests and arresting protesters. It is not safe to say what you think.


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Bcause of illegal mining in Brazil on Indigenous peoples' lands there is now poison in their rivers and in their mothers' milk.

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Who should pay for the climate crisis? Why should Pakistan need loans to pay for the effects of a crisis it did not cause?

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