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A carbon fee program would preserve the personal choice of how we live our lives
If a system is defined by the collective actions of its parts, one may still ask why the parts should cooperate to create collective effects? And, especially if there are very many parts in the system,Continue reading
Potassium…. may emerge as problematic…. as large areas of highly weathered tropical soils….are converted to agriculture.
On the connection between the technosphere and culture, between science and humanism–the boundary that must be addressed in any full attempt to deal with environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. Professor Herrmann-Pillath (an economist and philosopherContinue reading
Policies devoted to bioenergy should be redirected toward efforts to protect terrestrial carbon stocks and recarbonize the biosphere.
Hurricane Florence provides a stark demonstration of how runoff and overflows can contaminate waterways with hog waste and coal-ash leachates.
My discussion of a regulative framework for systems begins with a rule that applies to system parts. Recall that a system is a set of parts that dissipates energy through participation of those parts inContinue reading
Plants modulate the turning of the hydrologic cycle by reducing surface runoff, increasing the amount of water that enters the soil, and returning it slowly to the atmosphere by transpiration
What good is a butterfly that does not tweet or titillate?
The higher incidence of breast cancer since 1940 is consistent with the greater use and proliferation of various endocrine-like chemicals in the environment.
