It might make you feel good to go meatless on a Monday. But what about the billions of people who do not have the luxury of such a choice? Where do they get their nutrients?
Humans are good at errors. We love telling people that they are wrong even when our pot is as burnt as their kettle. Critiques are not enough to shape our future...
Climate change denial is still with us despite all the evidence that makes deniers look foolish. The real problem is that the believers don’t quite get it either...
Yep, hard to believe isn’t it but a clear majority of the people in mature economies are concerned about the environment. Their intuition is telling them something that politicians don’t seem to get...
Why indeed? A snail has no notion of roads, what they are made of or what they are used for or even that it is lousy habitat for a gastropod. So what, you might ask...
The best orchestras in the world have conductors that bring the musicians together. The same applies to science with all its players and instruments. The question is: who gets the baton?
There is a growing lack of trust in society’s critical institutions. This includes science and the scientists who carry it out. This is bad news...
More people is good news, right? More customers, taxes, opportunities and overall development of humanity. Well, there is bad news too...
Big data means we risk drowning in information with only a handful of lifeguards to save our sorry souls. Only you don’t have to be a data analyst to know how to evaluate evidence...
Most of the time we know more and less than we think. A little courage to give it a go and much can be done. The question is: should we know more?
Extinction is forever and there is a lot of it going on just now. The question is why?
Humanity has taken over the world. We like dominion. But this all-conquering species also likes to set itself targets only to fail when the accounts are in...
Getting enough protein is essential for wellbeing. Plenty of high quality protein in your diet has a bunch of health advantages. It could help you stay lean, resist disease and even lift your mood. Are you getting...
Many believe humanity continues inextricable progress. Others that we career towards a cliff of resource scarcity. Is the glass half full or half-empty? There is a way to find out...
Blink and you miss it. That is the nature of the modern newsfeed designed not for information but for commercial clicks. What can you do when the real issues slip quickly under your thumbs?
Humans are so good at using resources we should not be surprised at any of the numbers. We are more making machines.
Sustainability…. good luck with that one. The ‘cake and eat it’ formal definition is near impossible given a planet full of humans. We have a slightly different take — solve FED and sustainability is possible...
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