A few weeks ago I visited storm-beaten Northern California, where the snow piles high and the expression ‘atmospheric river’ has become very common in conversations. Just a few months before, the predominant worry in California was a very different one –a pervasive drought that had continued for years. …

The recent Ohio train derailment and its never-ending trail of pollution has highlighted the alarming frequency of such disasters occurring around the world. This is indicative of the lack of governmental and corporate safety protocols, driven by a prioritization of profits. …

Longtermism is an idea circulating among some philosophers and their adepts that prioritizes our ethical duty to future generations over the present one. William MacAskill, a philosopher and associate professor at Lincoln College at Oxford, defines the term in his book What We Owe the Future as “the idea that…

I have to confess that I am a climate doomer, or at least, what mainstream climate experts, global institutions, and most media consider a ‘doomer’. Despite the bad image that being a ‘doomer’ implies, I accept it because I consider it the closest to reality. …

One of the countries most threatened by the climate caused sea rise is Tuvalu, a group of nine islands halfway between Australia and Hawaii. At present, about 40% of its capital district is submerged at high tide and the whole country has a very high probability of being totally submerged…

Among the climate-aware crowd, there is a constant plea to save the planet! …

The recent energy crisis in Europe illustrates very well the importance of energy in our economies. Many countries in Europe are experiencing energy shortages and high inflation propelled by sharp increases in energy prices, making it impossible to satisfy most basic needs like rent, food, and transportation. Germany’s inflation report…

We live in a smart society! This smartness has been increasing for a few decades even if there is no evidence of a sudden and strange evolutionary upturn in human intelligence. Instead, our machines are becoming ‘smarter’, or at least, meriting the ‘smart’ label more frequently. In the ‘old’ days…

The recent energetic and climatic woes around the world have our top experts scrambling for more ‘clean’ energy sources -one more chapter in their continuous race towards an ideal source with no emissions and high sustainability. This race is so full of pitfalls that any outside objective viewer –possibly an…