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CONTENTS
May 2021 • Volume 93 • Issue 05
COVER STORY
32
SEXUALITY AND
THE CITY
In cities around the
world, the geography
of homosexuality is
shifting. As historic bars
and clubs close down,
or where they never
existed, queer people
are reacting, just as they
always have, by finding
new ways to gather.
16 26
THE RETURN OF
HUNGER
The global decline in
hunger has now ended,
despite the fact that we
produce enough food
to feed the population.
What can be done?
HEAT FROM BENEATH
The UK has made little progress
decarbonising heating, but a green
source lies under the feet of a
quarter of the population.
DEPARTMENTS
WORLDWATCH
6
Environmental accounting
8
Changing seasons;
Climatewatch
10
Narwhal tusk research
11
Mapping river blockages
12
Geopolitical hotspot:
Global Britain
14
Research round-up
REGULARS
56
Geo-graphic:
The world’s royals
58
Reviews
62
Geo photographer:
Linda Wisdom
64
Gallery: Fukushima surfers
ten year’s on
72
Where in the world?
73
Crossword
74
In Society
75
RGS-IBG events
76
RGS-IBG archive
78
Discovering Britain
82
Next Month: Arctic sentinels
41
THE CALIFORNIA
ZEPHYR
John Gilbey rides an
historic train across wild,
changing landscapes.
48
VIRTUAL TRAVEL
Prolific voyager and travel writer
Hadani Ditmars attempts to
slake her wanderlust through
virtual travel and digital tours.
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Where there’s a will...
In the 1980s and ‘90s, hunger and famine felt like a very present issue.
Even if some of the musical converts and celebrity-helps-save-Africa TV
programmes from those days now seem a bit naff (at best), they did ensure
that almost everyone knew how widespread starvation was and understood
it as a defining issue of the times. Things feel different today, perhaps
because so many other global problems now crowd the news cycle. Maybe
this is why I was surprised to discover that after a decades-long decline, the
number of people facing imminent starvation in the world has been rising
since 2017. In this month’s dossier Mark Rowe explores this issue in detail
(page 16). It makes for frustrating reading, particularly as the problem is
not whether we can produce enough food (we can) but whether we have the
political will to distribute it fairly.
Political will, or the lack thereof, can impact so many aspects of people’s
lives. As we discover on page 32, in our exploration of the ‘geography of
sexuality’, many people in the LGBTQ community feel let down by politics
for all sorts of reasons. In many Western cities some of this discontent has
been directed in recent years at the failure to protect historic venues that
hold huge importance to so many people. Nevertheless there is a positive side
to this story. It didn’t take long to unearth the fact that whatever happens –
however expensive city rents become, or however intolerant wider society
might be – LGBTQ people will always find a way to collectivise, gather and
celebrate, just as they always have.
Katie Burton
Editor
July 2020
Volume 92 Issue 07
Publisher
Graeme Gourlay
Editor
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Jacob Dykes
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Geordie Torr
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‘Virtual travel is part magic
carpet ride, part hologram,
as imagined by a digital
genie,’ says
Hadani
Ditmars.
At work on a
new travelogue of Iraq,
she was forced to enter
the world of virtual travel
to complete her research
(page 48).
There were
pros and cons. ‘It’s kind of
like journeying to Narnia
via your smart phone
rather than your wardrobe,
but it can never replace
the actual taste of that
longed for Turkish Delight.’
‘Progress in decarbonising
heat in the UK has been
shockingly slow. So it was
exciting to hear about
plans to use heat naturally
occurring in the water
in disused mines,’ says
environmental journalist
Catherine Early
who
took a closer look at this
opportunity
(page 26).
‘Not only could this provide
a constant supply of clean
heat, it could also bring
economic benefits to parts
of the UK that suffered
when the mines closed.’
‘I have always enjoyed
long rail journeys, and had
been looking for a reason
to travel on the California
Zephyr across the
American West for some
time. Attending a writers’
workshop in rural Wyoming
provided the excuse,’ says
journalist
John Gilbey
(page 41).
Long distance
passenger services in the
USA could be looking at
a resurgence under the
Biden administration’s
proposed infrastructure
investment plan.
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Cover image
Shutterstock/Nelson Antoine
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