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Helena Dearnell
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Sep 12

The Extracted Earth

What distinguishes life before the 19th century from the subsequent centuries? It’s the omnipresent machines! Suddenly, anyone could fell a majestic tree with the roar of a chainsaw or open craters to access the Earth’s deepest resources. We admire the ingenuity behind the invention of these colossal machines that help…

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The Extracted Earth
The Extracted Earth

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Apr 23

California, a Tale of Water

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. …

Environment

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California, a Tale of Water
California, a Tale of Water
Environment

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Apr 3

Our NIMBY and OSOM attitudes about Pollution

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. …

Pollution

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Our NIMBY and OSOM attitudes about Pollution
Our NIMBY and OSOM attitudes about Pollution
Pollution

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Feb 28

The Fantasy World of Longtermism

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…

Climate Change

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The Fantasy World of Longtermism
The Fantasy World of Longtermism
Climate Change

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Jan 25

Doomer or Realist

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. …

Climate Change

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Doomer or Realist
Doomer or Realist
Climate Change

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Dec 30, 2022

The Metaverse and the Climate Crisis

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…

Climate Crisis

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The Metaverse and the Climate Crisis
The Metaverse and the Climate Crisis
Climate Crisis

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Dec 7, 2022

Saving the Planet, or Ourselves?

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

Climate Change

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Saving the Planet, or Ourselves?
Saving the Planet, or Ourselves?
Climate Change

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Nov 13, 2022

Homo Economicus and Energy

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…

Economics

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Homo Economicus and Energy
Homo Economicus and Energy
Economics

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Sep 28, 2022

Our Smart Society

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…

Water

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Our Smart Society
Our Smart Society
Water

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Aug 14, 2022

Are Small Modular Reactors the Answer for Energy Sustainability?

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…

Nuclear

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Are Small Modular Reactors the Answer for Energy Sustainability?
Are Small Modular Reactors the Answer for Energy Sustainability?
Nuclear

10 min read

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