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The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture*
2024-04-22 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. The Neolithic revolution saw the independent development of agriculture among at least seven unconnected hunter-gatherer populations. I propose t
Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
2024-04-03 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. Human development has ushered in an era of converging crises: climate change, ecological destruction, disease, pollution, and socioeconomic inequ
Commoning in the new society
2024-02-26 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. This article provides a meta-level framework which radically critiques the routine terms of reference with which we operate in a TINA (there is n
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
2023-12-27 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines concentrate
Tagged under: Famine and Food Insecurity
Global warming in the pipeline
2023-11-02 in Oxford AcademicAbstract. Improved knowledge of glacial-to-interglacial global temperature change yields Charney (fast-feedback) equilibrium climate sensitivity 1.2 ± 0.3°C (2σ
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Change
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
2023-10-25 (or before) in Oxford AcademicLife on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extrem
Tagged under: Climate Change Impacts | Climate Data | Climate Change | Science
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022
2023-09-03 (or before) in Oxford AcademicWe are now at “code red” on planet Earth. Humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency. The scale of untold human suffering, already immense, is rapidly
Tagged under: Climate Change
Accelerating declines of North America’s shorebirds signal the need for urgent conservation action
2023-05-19 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. Shorebirds are declining to a greater extent than many other avian taxa around the world. In North America, shorebirds, along with aerial insectivores
Respiratory energy demands and scope for demand expansion and destruction
2023-04-05 (or before) in Oxford AcademicNonphotosynthetic plant metabolic processes are powered by respiratory energy, a limited resource that metabolic engineers—like plants themselves—must manage pr
Four Common Problems In Environmental Social Research Undertaken by Natural Scientists
2022-11-15 (or before) in Oxford AcademicWhy do natural scientists continue to conduct and review environmental social science research without training and experience in the social sciences? Perhaps t
Selective Deafness of Political Parties: Strategic Responsiveness to Media, Protest and Real-World Signals on Immigration in Belgian Parliament
2022-10-28 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. How do political parties react to different signals from society indicating the saliency of a particular social problem? Are all parties equally respo
Tagged under: Activism
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2021
2021-08-05 (or before) in Oxford AcademicIn 2019, Ripple and colleagues (2020) warned of untold suffering and declared a climate emergency together with more than 11,000 scientist signatories from 153
‘Funk Money’: The End of Empires, The Expansion of Tax Havens, and Decolonization as an Economic and Financial Event*
2020-08-25 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. This article explores the question of what happened to European assets in the process of decolonization. It argues that decolonization created a money
Tagged under: Economics
Electric vehicles: the future we made and the problem of unmaking it
2020-06-24 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. The uptake of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), subject to bottlenecks, seems to have reached a tipping point in the UK and this mirrors a general tre
Tagged under: Batteries | Tipping Points
World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency
2019-12-25 (or before) in Oxford AcademicScientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any catastrophic threat and to “tell it like it is.” On the basis of this obligation and the grap
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