By Stefano Cisternino IN A WORLD WHERE environmental and societal challenges are increasingly interwoven, the decision to have children is no longer a simple personal choice but a complex ethical quandary. Societal norms around reproduction are diverse and often contradictory. While some cultural pressures push couples towards parenthood, perhaps before…
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By Stefano Cisternino More and more studies are finding that protecting IPLCs’ lands (Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities), which are often crucial carbon sinks in certain regions, is essential to achieving the goal of the Paris Agreement to keep the global temperature rise to less than 1.5 °C (2.7 °F)…
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In the long term, climate change is an existential problem for our species. In the short term, it is an existential threat to democracy. No government has a plan that is compatible with the goal everyone has agreed on, which is to limit the increase in the average global temperature…
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As we walk through the pillar vault of the democratic world, the capitals still shine, representing the achievements of the long political process of democratisation. However, achievements in a more turbulent world are under threat.…
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By Stefano Cisternino In recent years, many writers have incorporated climate dynamics into the plots of their novels, driven by the need to tell the story of the ecological crisis. This mental posture, on closer inspection, simplifies the complexity of the phenomenon. We struggle to overcome it, however, because the…
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After turning off the TV, I sit on the couch and stare into the wall for at least ten minutes. It is the end of the documentary Seaspiracy that has silenced me, unsure how to grasp what I just saw.…
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Despite its name, the Caspian Sea is often referred to as the world’s largest lake. The Caspian Sea, however, is not a typical lake. For one, it is enormous (with a surface of 374 000 km², it outsizes Germany), and it has been referred to as a sea since antiquity.…
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By Eric Axner-Norrman Have a look at a map of the world, and soon you will discover that the large landmasses that constitute our continents are surrounded by even larger bodies of water. Dry land is an exception rather than rule on our planet. All along stretches of coasts, shorelines…
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By Eric Axner-Norrman In times of global pandemics, damaged international relations and growing concerns over future food supplies, the notion of self-sufficiency is coming back in from the cold. Not long ago it was deemed terribly outdated and out of fashion, not to say nationalistic and totally unsustainable. It was…
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By Sofia Fujiwara When Netflix released the documentary Seaspiracy by 27-year old director, Ali Tabrizi, the recurring thing I heard from people was “you have to see this movie, it’ll make you never want to eat fish again”. Curious, I popped a bag of popcorn into the microwave, logged into…
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