Tag: Climate
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Our greatest enemy
“Time is your greatest enemy”. This is Maverick’s first lesson when tasked with teaching a younger generation of fighter pilots. Nobody knows better than him how to cut corners in the air and skim over sand dunes. He is the master of seconds. Yet throughout Top Gun, a longer scale of time overlays the narrative,…
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All-important soil
Much of the ongoing global extinction is taking place underground. Booming metropolises of biological production and exchange crumble in silence, at a rate of 75 billion tonnes per year. Soil, the most biologically diverse material on Earth, is a cornerstone of life driven to irrelevance by our mechanised understanding of nature. Soil feeds us, its…
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Remembering climate change adaptation
‘When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends’. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is all too familiar with this feeling Laozi describes in his Taoist studies. Over the past month, everyone has been shocked by Working Group 1’s Assessment Report. The cataclysm is not only real; it’s within reach. Business…
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Towards a measurement of the trade-biodiversity nexus
Biodiversity degradation is an underevaluated knock-on effect of trade liberalisation. That’s because enhanced demand through free trade agreements (FTAs) increases land clearing, whether that be due to agriculture, mining, fishing or hydrocarbon extraction. Costs on climate, linked to energy-intensive industrial production and freight transport, are also enormous. Since 2019, opposition to the EU-Mercosur deal has…
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