Our place in Planet Earth
We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself
Carl Sagan
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
A 1980 television series written by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, and Steven Soter. It covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life,
the history of the Univers, and a perspective of our place in it.
Watch here
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Information on the status of the environmental global agenda :
Agriculture & Food Security, Atmosphere, Biodiversity, Chemicals and Wastes, Cities, Climate Change, Disasters & Humanitarian Relief, Economics & Investment, Energy, Forests, Governance, Human Development, Islands, Land, Oceans & Coasts, Science, Sustainable Consumption & Production, Water & Sanitation, NEGOTIATIONS…
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Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached
Planetary boundaries: the fundamentals
Living beyond the limits that biosphere’s boundaries dictates to Homo sapiens…
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Human Evolution
Each new piece of the puzzle of human evolution allows us to know a little more and better about our place in the Earth’s biodiversity and about the meaning of life. How we came to be the only humans on Earth and then, how we became a kind of gods thanks to our science and technology, mixed with Stone Age emotions and Middle Age institutions… Some pieces of this puzzle here
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Thermodynamics of the economic process
Main critics of economic theory from the point of view of thermodynamics. He developed, although left unfinished, the bioeconomic theory. His legacy provides the scientific foundation for ecological economics, and the inspiration for the various zero-growth, «strategic retreat,» or degrowth movements.
More on N. Georgescu-Roegen: here