“The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet.” I argued that the combination of resource depletion (like water), demographic youth bulges and the proliferation of shanty towns throughout the developing...
This due to different reasons, notably the scarcity of accessible farming land. Wright’s (2010)‘real utopia’, the seemingly most similar concept to ‘concrete utopia’, differs from the latter quite significantly. ‘Real utopia’ refers to realistic rather than real social formations though ...
Over the last two decades, global wealth has risen. Yet material affluence has not translated into time affluence. Most people report feeling persistently ‘time poor’—like they have too many things to do and not enough time to do them. Time poverty is
Large areas of dense tree cover generate extra water vapour and rain. Indeed, all round, concentrated trees give us a way forward out of drought, water scarcity and excessive heat too. No wonder, then, that the Kenya Forest Service announced with such elation we h...
There are several reasons why India is a poor country. Some have historical roots and others derive strength from socio-political structures. Lack of effective governance and corruption has only sustained Indian poverty.
The challenge of Africa is completely different, it is much deeper… it is civilizational… [When] countries still have seven to eight children per woman, you can decide to spend billions of euros, you will not stabilize anything. (quoted in DeCourcey 2017, 2) These concerns are voiced not...
I have no idea how this got mainstream, but it’s bogus. Also drinking more water than you need - which means drinking water without being thirsty, leads to a lot of unpleasant effects. First of all, you pee a lot. You’ve been lead to believe that this is good. That the clear ...
This increasing urbanization, which will be particularly marked in Africa and Asia, will bring new needs for healthcare, food, water management and construction. Many of the answers to these challenges can be found in industry's ability to devise and pr...
However, the increases are unlikely to fully address the scarcity of doctors predicted through 2034. The class sizes, enrollment and number of medical schools are “not growing fast enough to meet the demand for physicians' services and health care across...
Still, private-sector executives may be energised by a growing realisation that nature and biodiversity are tightly linked to two other more familiar sustainability issues: climate change and water scarcity. “Water is a key driver in nature and biodiversity loss so if we don’t think about water...