…service economy raised the intensity of use in the early 20th century. Thicker paper replaced thinner paper, and newspapers replaced oral gossip. More recently, thinner paper has again replaced thicker paper,…
…siren call, a call to voyages of discovery in little explored regions of the Indian Ocean, along the deeper reaches of reefs, and in the mid-waters and great depths of…
…benefit. The warmer it gets, the more air conditioners people buy. And the more air conditioners they buy, the warmer it gets: Air conditioners, after all, are major consumers of…
…more than transpires from the short considerations just outlined, and up to now fertility has escaped all model descriptions [33, 34]. Demographic books continue to be littered with puzzling charts…
…(48 pages in English) should not be confused with the short essay also titled Liberation of the Environment which opens the 1996 Daedalus special issue on environment and 1997 NAE…
…the Chinese and Indian economies resembles the Japanese, American and European at the outset of industrialization in the 19th century. Fundamentally, decarbonization tracks a technological competition between combustible elements. In the…
The Indian electricity blackouts of 30-31 July 2012 affected more than 600 million people. A National Public Radio story by correspondent Richard Harris quotes Jesse Ausubel on the increasing need…
…1.4% since 1985. Between 1965-1996 the GDP per Mexican rose 1.7% yearly, per Indian 2.4%, and per Japanese 3.7%. The present slump in Asia reminds us that economies rarely sustain…
This essay is adapted from the keynote address to the Business Roundtable’s National Summit on Technology and Climate Change, held August 31, 2000 in Washington DC. The author is grateful…
…(part 2). In April 2006 Conservation Biology, Daniel Rubinoff’s mildly-titled essay “The utility of mitochondrial DNA barcodes in species conservation” focuses on the potential consequences of relying on DNA barcodes…