The Unbearable Heaviness of Food Production
But the study, besides estimating the environmental costs caused by unsustainable food production practices, highlights methods to start alternative approaches to intensive agriculture able to provi...
Earth Conundrum: +83 Million -15 Billion
Even assuming a decline in fertility rates, global population will reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and 11.2 billion by 2100, compared to the average variant projections. And even if f...
Priceless and Unnoticed
It is undoubtedly a step forward that brings Italy on a par with similar realities already present or being created in several counties. For instance, the UK set up its Natural Capital Committee in ...
We Have Ruined Three Quarters of the Biosphere
The panorama is so vast that it gave rise to three scientific magazines devoted to the Anthropocene (see the large research programmes on Global Change coordinated within the Future Earth Programme,...
Capital is Natural
Graphic elaboration of Karl Marx (engraving), by Robert Diedrichs, 1970 Capital is still a term thought to be confined to the realm of economics and finance. However, ...