Here is the first set of biodiversity cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
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Here is the first set of biodiversity cartoons for 2022. See full stock of previous ‘Cartoon guide to biodiversity loss’ compendia here.
The science of ... saving life
The other day I was asked to do an interview for a South Korean radio station about the declining-population “crisis”. Therein lies the rub — there is no crisis. While I think the interview went well (you can listen to it here), I didn’t have ample time to flesh out my arguments; I’ve decided to […]
Last week I wrote a post about various indices of country-level environmental performance, which I prefaced with a caveat that the data are a few years old. This week I’m going to discuss national indices of economic performance and prosperity. There are indeed some surprises. But standard metrics of economic performance at the national level […]
I’ll preface this post with a caveat — the data herein are a few years old (certainly pre-COVID), so things have likely changed a bit. Still, I think the main message holds. Many years ago, I compiled seven different national-level measures of environmental degradation to show that countries with the largest human populations, and hence, […]