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Climate change, environmental degradation, and pollution are more than just global problems; they are public health crises affecting billions. They form a constellation of cosmic proportions. The prognosis for a smooth future gets worse every day, with 100 million tons of CO2 added to the already full-up Atmosphere, along with the other greenhouse gases. As…
Neither the Biodiversity Crisis nor Climate Change are hoaxes or the result of some left-wing conspiracy, whatever the absurdist wing of certain political parties would have you believe. They both need to be taken very seriously indeed. Ignoring the science is a road to disaster, especially when it is based on wilful ignorance. Nature is…
In Blog # 24 on human carrying capacity on planet Earth I mentioned Donella Meadows’ places to intervene in a system that I first came across in a Whole Earth Review 1997 issue. She worked with Jay Forrester who developed systems theory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At an American Public Health Association meeting…
Robert Sapolsky, the neuroscientist and Stanford sage has come out with a new book: Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.He argues that we have no free will because of our individual histories that go back milliseconds, to seconds, to hours, to days, to years, to preconception, and beyond to the arrival of humans on…
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