BEARS
The history of my interest in bears was, until recently, confined to “Rupert Bear” when I was child (a stuffed animal), and various National Geographic …
ZEALANDIA
In February 2021, I wrote a blog about the “discovery” of Zealandia, the eighth continent that many had predicted to exist, but nobody had found. …
STRANGE CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
There are many implications and strange consequences of climate change that we haven’t even begun to contemplate yet, and this story of crocodiles and hippos …
SAVE THE VULTURES
Save the vultures may not be as appealing a slogan as save the elephants, save the blue whales, or save the pandas, but it may …
MACABRE BUT INTERESTING
This blog is macabre but interesting – at least I thought so! The question is: what happens if you suddenly find yourself outside your spacecraft …
SAILING CARGO SHIPS
I wrote a blog a while ago about sailing cargo ships; the possibility of re-inventing sail as a method of reducing the carbon footprint of …
HOME TRUTHS
I thought it was time for a few “home truths”, at least “home truths” from my perspective. I am stretching the meaning of “Home Truth” …
LEADERSHIP
The dichotomy of leadership is how you lead successfully without embracing autocracy in the process. It seems to be almost impossible for human beings to …
DEMOGRAPHICS
Demographics will always reshape the medium-term future because the change in economically productive populations is already determined. For example, most people who will be alive …
THE GREAT CARBON VALLEY
The Great Carbon Valley is something you’ve probably never heard of. I certainly hadn’t. The article I read, with that as a title, revealed that …