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Tag Archives: climate change
Pricing Nature to Save the Planet
New Scientist, covering Rio+20, talks about putting a price on the natural world: Green economics, the theory goes, will work by quantifying nature and giving it a cash value. As Steiner put it: “Factoring natural capital into the bottom line … Continue reading
A roadmap for growing prosperity while saving the planet
Chris Jablonski at ZDnet interviewed me recently about my next book, The Infinite Resource. Here’s a short excerpt. Click at the link at the bottom to read the whole interview. In your upcoming book, The Infinite Resource – Growing … Continue reading
Iron-rich dust fuelled 4 million years of ice ages
Iron-rich dust fuelled 4 million years of ice ages – environment – 03 August 2011 – New Scientist. DUST is all that’s needed to plunge the world into an ice age. When blown into … Continue reading
My WFS2011 Talk: The Infinite Resource: Growing Prosperity While Reducing Impact on the Earth
I gave at talk this morning at the World Future Society 2011 Conference in Vancouver. The talk was entitled The Infinite Resource: Growing Prosperity While Reducing Impact on the Earth, and it looks at what the ultimate limits of growth … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, energy, environment, future trends, politics, science, solar
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Can We Capture All the World’s Carbon?
I originally posted this at Scientific American. Reposting here with permission. In 2011, the world will emit more than 35 billion tons of carbon dioxide. Every day of the year, almost a hundred million tons will be released into the … Continue reading
Key Trends of the Next 25 Years
Michell Zappa has a fascinating infographic attempting to lay out timelines for future technologies over the next 25 years. It’s an impressive job of collecting data and laying it out in a way that someone can explore. It’s worth playing … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, climate change, computing, energy, future trends, health care
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Persuading Climate Skeptics – Why We Need Republican Experts
New Scientist has an interesting article on research into what persuades people on scientific issues. The key finding is that there’s a major impact of hearing the evidence from someone who has similar political and social outlooks. Experts who are … Continue reading
Singularity Summit Talk: The Digital Biome – Re-Engineering Life on Earth to Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century
This weekend I was at the Singularity Summit in San Francisco. On Sunday I gave a talk called The Digital Biome – Re-Engineering Life on Earth to Survive and Thrive in the 21st Century. (Follow the link to see … Continue reading
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Global Warming: Risk of Methane Release from Frozen Tundra
Now this is scary. The linear rate of global warming, in and of itself, is scary only in the somewhat long term (100+ years or so). The real risk with global warming is runaway feed-forward loops. E.g., one that you … Continue reading