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Geoengineering “solves” carbon problems but…
Geoengineering "solutions" to deliberately reduce the effects of continued greenhouse gas emissions can destabilize global and regional climates - and also the political and legal framework. Among many possible examples: A flee...
Growing environmental legal class actions on no-win no-fee b ...
There is rapid growth of environmental legal class actions on no-win no-fee basis. This originated as local and regional lawsuits in respect of specific and discreet environmental effects. There is now debate on the potential ...
Growth of real-time monitoring and response to water problems
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a legislation produced by the European Commission to achieve sustainable management of water across European Member States. The directive aims to achieve healthy water environment by takin...
R&D in synthetic biofuels from algae.
There is currently much venture capital flowing into this research area, particularly the breeding and treatment of different algae types. Additionally, the famous biochemist Craig Venter is active in financing projects aimed a...
Combine climate change with animal-borne diseases, and the l ...
there are the makings of a perfect storm. Certain conditions could come together to cause a major health epidemic or something that affects a significant sector of the agricultural business, or agricultural dependency, e.g. a w...
The seabed is lined with methane hydrate, and if you take th ...
We know in the past there have been great belches of methane, followed by a climate spike. The American coastline has had a lot of extra erosion because of extra agricultural production and there could be a landslide. This woul...
One the European Union should strongly consider is that glob ...
By that I mean everything has an absorption curve. Imagine you have a clear glass of water and you put in a drop of ink and it becomes darker, and you keep doing that until it is completely black and then adding more in does no...
Some people has insisted on cycling everywhere and using pub ...
It is almost an ideology for him. You can probably find scores of examples of people making small shifts because they think it is appropriate, rather than waiting for the big shift to happen.
Cultivating the values that lead people to work within natur ...
It is a way of approaching small-scale farming that works within the capacity of the land to maintain fertility. It is not just pragmatic, it is more about cultivating the values that lead people to work within natural boundari...
The shift towards post-material values
Going from the need to own a lot of stuff to feel good, to modes of satisfaction and fulfilment that are not based on possessions, but maybe on quality of relationships or doing the right thing by the environment. Where It stop...
Major changes in the behaviour of ecosystems could be caused by the surface water warming by a few degrees. That could also cause an enormous burden for the power grid because water is used to cool practically the whole industr...
According to Luke GEORGHIOU: "There are some small signs, e.g. Paganism is one of the fastest growing religions. It has been officially recognised and the police are entitled to leave on Pagan festivals if they state that it is...
Many researchers now believe that that real advances in genomics will come not from simple X-causes Y correlations but from rich statistical understanding that emerges out of the sequences of millions of genomes. This set will ...
Growing interest in geoengineering options
Growing number of research efforts aimed to increase the level of knowledge about the feasibility and implications of geoengineering options to limit climate change with, for example: deliberate manipulations of the radiative b...
Unexpected environmental change due to nano-tech
Nanosensors designed to detect trace concentrations of biochemicals lead to absorption of nanoparticles into the body and environment, concentrating in water and soil, and eventually linking with natural organisms, causing unkn...
People tired of hearing about climate change
People become bored and switched off about the issue. People cannot be bothered to change behaviour
Monitoring and management of the environment
Monitoring and management of the environment is a great challenge for the coming years. The supply of clean water in many regions of the world is hindered by the pollution imposed by overpopulation and industrial development. r...
Attacks (by individual) on energy waste become prevalent, including sabotage, naming-and-shaming and various forms of civil disobedience. This becomes a EU-wide movement and is targeting facilities where energy is unnecessarily...
Individual and collective trading of pollution credits
Carbon footprint allowance (including tax) is allocated to individuals and business organisations. This policy results in the poor (and vulnerable) selling their allowance to businesses and those who are better off. Consequentl...
Spirituality is disconnected from religion
There is a massive disengagement of people from established religions, and a movement towards spiritual expression outside religion. This includes spiritual attitudes to issues such as environment protection and climate change,...
China's pollution leads to global trade barriers and even to ...
The spread of human and environmental cost of China's pollution advances in scope and severity, leaging to conflict with affected states and regions. This leads to global trade barriers and even to open military conflicts.
