This post is the occasion to continue the series of posts I initiated some time ago on the “let’s face the truth about climate change mitigation” theme. The ultimate goal of these posts is obviously not to suggest any definitive answer to the question: is it possible to mitigate climate change, only to give some [...]
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Biofuels – Let’s face the truth about climate change mitigation (II)
Posted in climate change, global warming, peak oil, population, science, technology, tagged biofuels, climate change, consumption, crisis, development, food, IPCC, oil, population, technology on November 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Consuming without even noticing it
Posted in consumption, global warming, technology on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Weird that sometimes the same news is revealed simultaneously in several countries. The latest I have noticed deals with those little, insignificant appliances that we leave on stand-by instead of unplugging them (or switching them off). It might be nothing, one could think. After all, what does a diode consume? Almost nothing… Right. This reminds [...]
A conjunction of factors
Posted in climate change, environment, global warming, peak oil, population, science, technology on October 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Today seems to be the right day for publication of another synthesis of what has been available online in the newspapers this week.
For those interested in an even better review, covering the recent times and looking at different issues, I would recommend this post from Trinifar. Impressive but true.
I was astonished to discover three significant [...]
IPCC and population growth
Posted in IPCC, climate change, environment, global warming, population, science, technology on October 12, 2007 | 26 Comments »
In the context of a series of conferences organized by the department of Industrial Ecology at NTNU, Norway, we had the honor and pleasure to welcome Mr. Leo Meyer on the 2nd of October, for a speech on the work of the working group III of the IPCC in its 4th assessment report. Mr. Meyer [...]
A lack of worldwide mobilization
Posted in motivations, science, technology, tagged france, idealism, impacts, research, science, strikes on October 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have a small dream.
I believe that the scientific community is less interested than the political one, meaning corrupted, taken in a broad sense. I mean, scientists usually work for knowledge in itself; for the purpose of serving science and helping the society as whole to develop. Some objections to this idea can be expressed [...]
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 [...]
