Tag: climate change
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Planetary-scale computation — an emergent intelligence that is both machine and human — gave us the perspective to see Earth as an interconnected whole. With it, we must now conceive… more ›
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Politics must be reimagined to include more than mere human affairs. Noema Deputy Editor Nils Gilman recently interviewed Tobias Rees, who is the director of the Berggruen Institute’s Transformations of… more ›
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Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the great living science fiction writers and one of the most astute observers of how planets look, feel and work. We discuss why Robinson… more ›
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USING carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light and strong as titanium might sound like a series… more ›
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Five years ago Project Drawdown published a collection of “drawdown solutions,” technologies and practices that, if ambitiously implemented together, can achieve drawdown—the point in the future when levels of greenhouse… more ›
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Kim Stanley Robinson, the legendary science-fiction novelist, has a private utopian hope: “to dodge a mass extinction event.” He joins Azeem Azhar to explore his recent novel, The Ministry For the Future, and… more ›
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For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most… more ›
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For NATO and the West’s relations with Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is clearly a historic turning point. The atrocities committed in occupied Ukrainian communities mark a… more ›
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Climate change threatens our food systems as we know them. Some 821 million people currently suffer from malnutrition worldwide, including 151 million children under five, whose growth is stunted. https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/interview/2022/04/07/the-climate-crisis-and-the-bleak-future-of-food more ›
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The critical importance of Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) has long been left out of the climate change solutions conversation. If the international community is to have any chance… more ›