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…all these pandemics share a common factor, namely the role of international travel in spreading the contagion. The Justinian Plague (541-546 CE, with intermittent recurrences until about 750 CE) probably killed more people as a percentage of global population than any other pandemic. The Black Death, which peaked in 1347-1351 CE, and the incorrectly named […]
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Introducing our new book series Understanding Life! Offering multi-disciplinary perspectives, these accessible guides address stereotypes and common misunderstandings in a thoughtful way.
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What picture to show on the cover of a book about climate extremes? Such events have a big potential to cost human lives and harm the economy. Illustrate this danger? A photo of a starving child in a desert? The chaos in a city hit by a hurricane? Certainly not. Photo selection is an intimate […]
Read MoreWriting a blog article about a book on climate extremes in these weeks or months or years of SARS-CoV-2, the Corona virus? At the beginning of this job, I feel embarrassed since I am doing fine as regards health and work, while other humans are suffering. I am a self-employed climate researcher and have the […]
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Growing up on what is truly one of the most beautiful college campuses, Michigan State University, I was a pre-teen when the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970. Most memorable was watching the CBS Evening News, when Walter Cronkite (who, in an opinion poll taken in 1972 named him as “the most trusted man […]
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A sustainable food revolution holds the key to ending the Sixth Extinction that is wiping out the world’s wild animals and plants. “Such is the insatiable power of the human jawbone that rethinking food not only holds the key to peace and plenty for all, but also to ending the 6th Extinction and regenerating a […]
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Humans have yet to explore Planet Earth in terms of what it can offer that is good to eat. “Food can give full rein to humanity’s imagination, dreams and ideas. It can prevent war and secure our future in the time of our greatest peril.” That’s one of the shocking facts in Food or War, […]
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Humans have long known that once a species goes extinct it is gone forever. There is a growing realization that the rate of human-caused extinctions is rising. One aspect of this gloomy picture is that the number of species that rely on human assistance to prevent their going extinct is also increasing precipitously. Are we […]
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