I have been thinking about writing something on the climate deniers. They are so-called scientists, or other persons with the ability to reach the media and publish their ideas, who spend their time trying to convince people that Anthropogenic global warming (AGW, see this post) is indeed a myth, invented by governments and other scientists [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Exxon and co.
Posted in climate change, global warming, tagged climate change, corporations, global warming on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are all drug addicts
Posted in consumption, peak oil, tagged consumption, drugs, oil on September 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No matter what we can say, we are all addicts. And we ask even more of our drug every single day. Let’s first examine the characteristics of a drug and what makes you addicted, to finally draw this amazing conclusion. Usually, you do not like taking drugs because of the action to take them, rather [...]
IPAT, the fundament of industrial ecology
Posted in consumption, environment, population, technology on September 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
An introduction to Industrial Ecology (two terms which, in my opinion, are hard to put together) will certainly expose this equation, which describes easily the current problems our civilization has to face:
I=PAT
I is the total impact on the environment. P is the population, in capita. A is the affluence, or consumption level per capita, expressed [...]
Let’s face the truth about climate change mitigation (I)
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming on September 14, 2007 | 5 Comments »
This post will be the first of a series, aiming at giving you a fair idea of what would be needed to effectively mitigate climate change. Let me first emphasize our core belief: global warming and the resultant climate change are anthropogenic, meaning human-induced. Some might argue that no, everything is a question of natural [...]
A new blog among millions…One view among billions.
Posted in motivations on September 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here we are, a new blog has been created. Hard to say how long it will live, how its future will look like, how many readers it will attract and how popular it will become. I have noticed though, that many blogs feature one main author and sometimes some guest writers.
This one aims at being [...]
