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[Essay written February 2020] Introduction: Our species is now in severe danger from the threat of climate change. This requires us to invoke the precautionary principle which is described as answering the call of social responsibility to protect the public from harm when scientific investigation has found a plausible risk (Read,2017). Recent data analyses showContinue reading “How do we treat human induced climate change and biosphere destruction as the emergency that it really is?”

The purpose of this blog post is to provide the means for researchers and readers to better understand how to use this framework to better help understand civilization. To fully understand the arrangement of the nested platonic solids selected for this model with their inspheres, please see the previous blog post which explains this. AContinue reading “The Planetarian Framework of Civilization – Updated and Explained. Where to go next?”

Sustainability of food production and consumption [Essay written July 2019] Case study: Collapse – The great leap forward Introduction: The great leap forward (TGLF) was a large-scale example of multiple failures within a societal system, that inevitably contributed to a collapse of that system and resulted in the largest ever human death toll from famineContinue reading “The planetarian framework – What is civilization? A case study on collapse – The 15 plus million death toll of famine during the 1960s in China”

[Written March 2019] Introduction As our knowledge of climate change increases, we are seeing more alarming events surrounding the issue. These include the withdrawal by the Trump administration from the Paris agreement; the extreme weather events of 2018; the 2030 timeframe given by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report in 2018 andContinue reading “How likely is societal and environmental collapse in the future beyond 2020? The implications for food”

[Written March 2019] Seaweed Climate Superhero? We know that human caused greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane, are warming our planet. Animal agriculture is responsible for more emissions than all transport, including aviation, combined. This is largely because of the enteric methane emissions from livestock as methane as a greenhouse gas is 28 times moreContinue reading “Promising research in reducing animal agriculture greenhouse gas emissions”

1. Abstract Our current political environments and governance methods are inadequate to deal with today’s global challenges of such a large, complex system. We see biased and ineffective political landscapes undermined by systemic corruption and led by irrational decision making which frustrates the process of governance. To help solve this we propose an online collectiveContinue reading “The planetarian hive mind model of governance [global challenges essay competition entry from 2017]”

[Written September 2018] Since the discovery of human-induced climate change the attempts made to limit our impact on earth’s systems have been minimal and ineffective. But why? As I transition from the physical sciences to the subject of sustainability I think a good place to start answering this question is to take a wide overviewContinue reading “What are the limiting factors of global environmental stability? – Timelines and Timeframes”

The posts made here are essays i have written whilst studying for a masters degree in sustainability. The Planetarian motto is that every variable must be taken into account. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notifiedContinue reading “Introducing the Planetarian approach to solving our global problems.”

Hi. I am a now 35 year old student entering my final year of an MSc in Sustainability and my background is in physics having a BSc in Physics. In physics i would class myself as a theoretical physicist concerned with the underlying physical and mathematical theory of the universe and i am attempting toContinue reading “Blog Introduction – who am i and what am i doing? (November 2020)”