Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows, reports BBC News. Since Arla announced that it was trialling Bovaer on 30 dairy farms, “social media users” …
This was a piece of course work from my Skills Bootcamp in Regenerative Land-Based Studies at the Apricot Centre earlier this year. It’s an attempt to map out a history of agriculture. It will have missed a very great deal, but I focussed on pivotal events and technological developments that drove population change. Comments welcome. …
This week we covered tipping points, critical thresholds in the Earth’s climate system. Crossing a tipping point can trigger self-reinforcing, cascading shifts in the behaviour of Earth’s systems that can be irreversible. Learning more about tipping points at the University of Exeter with Tim Lenton feels like going to the source. The University of Exeter …
This week was lectured by Prof. Tim Lenton, and this module keeps setting off lightbulb moments for me. How did life on earth get to be self-regulating? What is life, and what is its effect on the planet? James Lovelock had started looking at the composition of atmospheres of different planets while working at NASA. …
Global Systems Thinking is an optional module for the Food Studies MA at Exeter, but the more I follow it, the more relevant it feels. I wanted a solid underpinning in systems thinking, having been interested in it for some time, but not being able to properly articulate what it was about, or really understand …
This week, we’re looking at systems; a lot of this is through the lens of population change. World population and exponential growth Note, the decreasing amount of time between each 1 billion increase. What is the limit to human population growth? James Dyke suggested that this may be a thermodynamic limit, other limits may include …
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