Land | Food | Nature | People
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 …
Thank you to Doug Belshaw for the inspiration to blog notes on my Master’s. I did something similar when I read International Studies with the Open University, in fact, to trick myself into getting assignments done I effectively blogged them before taking them back into a more referenced and academic format for submission. I might …
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