Many of us think that rapid environmental change is a quintessentially modern crisis. Today, temperatures are soaring, topsoil is washing away, phosphorous is being diluted, forests are retreating, pesticides are sterilising farmland, fertilisers are choking waterways, and biodiversity is plummeting under the onslaught of overpopulated, industrialised societies. Some of these changes are indeed truly new. […]
Category Archives: People
7 Ways New Technologies are Preparing Our Youth for the Future
By Morgen Henderson New and developing technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality (among others) are really cool. We love to see how robots can differentiate between objects, artificial intelligence can assist psychologists, and virtual reality can allow us to enter new worlds. But how can today’s youth reap the benefits of […]
The urbanization of the world
The world has been urbanizing rapidly in recent decades. In 1950, only 30 percent of the world’s population lived in urban areas, a proportion that grew to 55 percent by 2018. The global urbanization rate masks important differences in urbanization levels across geographic regions. Northern America is the most urbanized region, with 82 percent of […]
7 Challenges All Big Cities Will Face in Future
Hong Kong, New York, London, Tokyo, and Paris – all of these cities are quite unique yet same in so many regards. They represent technological, social and infrastructural hubs of what is commonly referred to as a modern human society. No matter what background, professional experience or connections you may or may not have, chances […]
How Cities Will Evolve to Become More Sustainable
Increasing environmental sustainability has become an important topic both on the minds of many individuals and in the media. This is for good reason – recently, studies have starkly illuminated the impact of climate change and the role humans play in increasing global temperatures. With sobering consequences such as drought and more severe weather patterns, […]
A Profile in Courage: How One Person Can Save Many Lives
To champion science is to celebrate life. It is to apply the lessons of the laboratory to real-life circumstances. It is to address matters of life and death. It is to stay calm amidst chaos and confusion. It is to recognize the urgency of the need to act-in an emergency-when there is no time to […]
Can Environment Education Save Our Planet for Future Generations? The Broader Vision
“The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.” Lady Bird Johnson, American Editor This is perhaps one of the most powerful and thought-provoking quotes I have ever come across. The environment is really something that we all have in common, […]
Vision Care for Children in the Developing World
One of the biggest global health crises we face today impacts more than a billion people. It’s not HIV or heart disease. Malaria or mental health. It’s vision impairment. More than 253 million people are visually impaired and there are 1.1 billion people with near-vision impairment according to a paper published by the Vision Loss […]
Why students should learn lessons in nurturing nature?
Education is something which everyone wants to obtain. Everyone needs a perfect and complete education. Children’s always like to spend their time outside instead of being in one room. When we place children outside they start to explore themselves and they love to be within nature. When they are in nature they will be able […]
The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed
In a recent Nature Sustainability paper, a team of scientists concluded that the Earth can sustain, at most, only 7 billion people at subsistence levels of consumption (and this June saw us at 7.6 billion). Achieving ‘high life satisfaction’ for everyone, however, would transgress the Earth’s biophysical boundaries, leading to ecological collapse.
