Energy Destinies – Part 8: Pathways
Satyajit Das concludes his series on the future of energy by looking at curbing demand, aka radical conseration.
Read more...Satyajit Das concludes his series on the future of energy by looking at curbing demand, aka radical conseration.
Read more...Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind discuss how belief in infinite growth came to seem reasonable in philosophy and economics.
Read more...The EU is exporting more than 10,000 tons of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides a year to megadiverse countries despite having banned these chemicals from its own farms to protect pollinators.
Read more...Slowing and stallling population growth could actually increase resource demands.
Read more...“We encourage the IPCC to… ensure that Big Agriculture and the global meat industry have no influence over future reports.”
Read more...Virtually all paths to a net-zero-emissions food system rely on consumers in high-income countries shifting to a more plant-forward diet
Read more...Environmental stewardship efforts should aim to protect and connect natural systems, not save chosen animal species.
Read more...How climate change reveals a crisis of international governance.
Read more...Why handwringing about population decline is the wrong reaction.
Read more...Authors Jackson and Jensen argue that we need an acopalypse, as in a full recognition of conditions, to make radical envirnmental changes.
Read more...Yves here. Urban dwellers due to their limited contact with nature, are less afflicted by animal nuisances, with rats and pigeons as exceptions. However, given that focus, this post omits some favorites, like geese and invasive species such as rabbits in Australia. Animals routinely try to steal food from their fellows or other species; it’s […]
Read more...An update on the impact of global warming in the Arctic.
Read more...See shells journey from dinner plates to docks as environmentalists and restaurateurs use oysters to boost local ecology.
Read more...A regulatory decision by a small USDA agency on the American Chestnut could have major ramifications for genetic engineering.
Read more...Before the first UN environmental summit, The Limits to Growth showed Earth’s finite resources cannot support ever-growing human consumption.
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