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May 6, 2016
Knowledge Must Translate into Action
Why does our knowledge not turn into action to restore the Earth’s life-support system? What makes us truly different…
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December 4, 2015
Safeguarding Our Life Support System
In earlier columns, I made reference to a new definition for sustainable development: a development that meets our needs…
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August 5, 2015
Finding the Message in the Facts
Are we humans our own worst enemy? Could our unconscious addiction to growth and need to increase our population…
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June 24, 2015
Extreme Volcanic Eruptions
Two hundred years ago, on April 10, 1815, the volcano Mount Tambora in Indonesia had a climactic explosion in…
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May 31, 2015
The Slowly Developing Disaster of Sea Level Rise
In 2013, James Balog’s presentation at the scince policy conference of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in Washington, D.C.,…
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October 3, 2014
The Year 2015: The Start of a New Decade of Making it Right?
Finally, in August this year it was published: “The Collapse of Western Civilization – A View from the Future”.1…
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July 23, 2014
The Credibility of Science
The Last weeks have been full of surprising scientific discoveries. In a way, it reminded me of my experience…
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May 20, 2014
Risk Management
In my last column, I quoted a question posed to me by a young student: “What would you like…
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February 13, 2014
Humanity for Economy or Economy for Humanity?
When I was much younger, I often went up into the mountains in Corsica, Austria and Switzerland alone in…
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September 1, 2013
Uncontrolled Experiment or Planetary Accident?
At the american geophysical union (agu) science policy conference held on June 24-26, 2013, in no better place than…