New Anthropocene
Farming
Future of Food: Water Woes
They even showed a rice crop, happily evaporating that water away…
The Great Murray River: The Real Tragedy of the Commons
The horizon stretches out before me, flat but for a few clusters of trees. The baked soil makes the horizon dance beneath the hot sun. It is an arid environment and yet, before my feet spreads out an artificial wetland, complete with ibis, herons, egrets, plovers and ducks. Some of these wetland plots are void … Continue reading
Part One: How Do We Make a Change for Prosperity?
I’ve recently finished read James Garvey’s book, The Ethics of Climate Change: Right and Wrong in a Warming World, and I must admit I’m a little disappointed to say that, while we probably reach similar conclusions, we disagree in many ways on how we get there. This is very important, I feel, as I suspect … Continue reading
The Human Island has been revised!
In the lead up to the release of two more ebooks, I decided to revisit The Human Island as I was more or less happy with it, except that it did suffer from some grammatical errors and difficult wording. It helps also, because both new books will follow on from the basis I constructed within … Continue reading
New Anthropocene is Supporting Kiva loans!
Some readers may have noticed the new subheading above, “Donate and Support Kiva”. I’ve decided to make New Anthropocene more than just a soap box and start to put real money where my mouth is. I’ve taken the first step in placing some money down towards a project myself. To further this, I’ve also began to … Continue reading
GM Maize, Rats and the lil Paper that Thought it Could
I’ve been following the whole GM and rat tumour rumble with great interest. It’s a shame that most of the discussions are within science literature not easily obtained by the general public, a fact which, in itself, opens up doors of concern to be discussed below. Many alarms bells seem to have been triggered within … Continue reading
A Playground for Social Improvement Under-tapped
I have been a student or employee of a few universities now and one thing I noticed they all share is a proliferation of proud posters, website “ads” and statements of their successes in progressive work. As far as I can tell, this ought to be their primary position. Anything else would be squandering their … Continue reading
Warmth of the World
Seeing as many are now getting tired of the old argument of, “you can’t attribute an extreme weather event to climate change,” now that we have experienced year after year of extreme heat waves, wildfires, unprecedented floods, cyclones and monsoons, I figured it was worth sharing again the parody I did some time ago, adapted … Continue reading
De-industrialism is a plague on reasonable forward thinking
Yesterday afternoon, I saw my new baby for the first time. From head to tail bone it was 41mm long and 11 weeks old. Slightly too young to check for defects, so we’ll have another scan in a week and a half. The image, albeit not the highest quality, showed a little person, nudging around … Continue reading
Patchwork Earth: Rethinking the “how” and “where”
I know that I can’t help but offer rhetoric without at least some hypothetical foundations. I’m usually saying “we should” without explaining how. I do this because I’m not trained in the “how”. I’m the first to admit that much of my proposals seem to be very hopeful; indeed fringing utopian ideas of forming a … Continue reading
