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Through readings in poetry and prose, this Dove Tales event explores the way that modern wars are fought not for principle, but for control of the world's energy sources. For example, Trump leveraging the Ukraine war to make a deal for minerals, and Iran for his family to make a profit on oil.

 

The members of Dove Tales care deeply about war's effects on the world's environment. People talk about climate change being driven by greenhouse gases and industry, but the weapons industry is a huge driver of environmental destruction and change, something our leaders never talk about.

 

Dove Tales came together with six other Scottish peace and literary organisations — the Scottish Peace Network, Scottish PEN, the Federation of Writers, Campaign Against the Arms Trade, Scottish CND and Autumn Voices — to organise a competition and anthology to highlight this topic in memory of the late Robin Lloyd-Jones. Robin was an environmentalist and peace campaigner who served on the boards of many of our groups and founded Autumn Voices, an organisation fostering creativity in older people.

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