Equality for Women = Prosperity for All (book review)
Equality for Women = Prosperity for All:
The Disastrous Global Crisis of Gender Inequality
By Augusto López-Claros and Bahiyyih Nakhjavani
New York: St. Martin's Press. 312 p.
Book review by Arthur Dahl
How can we keep global warming to 1.5°C?
How can we keep global warming to 1.5°C?
In a recent special report in New Scientist, Graham Lawton has sketched out what we must do to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the agreed threshold for a chance of avoiding irreversible and dangerous climate change. Quoting a lead author of the latest IPCC report on 1.5°C: " We have to do everything, and we have to do it immediately." This is not impossible, since we have the necessary technologies, but it will require unprecedented rates of transformation.
Man of the Trees
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Man of the Trees
Hanley, Paul. 2018. Man of the Trees: Richard St. Barbe Baker, the first global conservationist
Regina, Saskatchewan: University of Regina Press, 300 p.
book review by Arthur Dahl
Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet
Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population
and the Destruction of the Planet
A Report to the Club of Rome
by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman, Co-Presidents, Club of Rome
New York: Springer. 220 p.
Book review by Arthur Dahl
Reflections on Science, Technology and the Human Spirit
Reflections on Science, Technology and the Human Spirit
Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
Paper prepared for the
Triglav Circle 2018
Chateau de Poussignol, Blismes, France
30 June-1 July 2018
http://www.triglavcircleonline.org/
Migration and Religion
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Migration and Religion
Arthur Lyon Dahl
International Environment Forum
Geneva, Switzerland
based on a paper presented at the
World Conference on “Religions, Creeds and Value Systems:
Joining Forces to Enhance Equal Citizenship Rights”
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 25 June 2018
Information: private property or public good?
Information: private property or public good?
On 15 February, I gave a TEDx talk at the Institut National Polytechnique: École Nationale Supérieure d’Électrotechnique, d’Électronique, d’Informatique, d’Hydraulique et des Télécommunications (INP ENSEEIHT), Université de Toulouse, France, on the topic "Information: private property or public good?". The full series of TEDx talks that day in French can be seen on YouTube at TEDxINPENSEEIHT.
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and Biosphere
Blog by Arthur Dahl
The end of Western civilization?
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The end of Western civilization?
Blog by Arthur Dahl
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits (book review)
The Imperatives of Sustainable Development: Needs, Justice, Limits
by Erling Holden, Kristin Lingered, David Banister, Valeria Jana
Schwanitz and August Wierling.
London and New York: Earthscan from Routledge. 263 p.
published in July 2017.
book review by Arthur Lyon Dahl