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Read more about the article Rethinking Society: Everything We Think We Know Is Wrong
Human Behaviour

Rethinking Society: Everything We Think We Know Is Wrong

Sites in Turkey, including the famous Gobekli Tepe, show that before agriculture, hunter-gatherers started harvesting wild grasses. They were using the ancestors of wheat and barley to make beer - crushing them up in big tubs and leaving them to ferment. They found hundreds of these tubs and even simple musical instruments. What were they doing - having a festival of course. At this proto-Glastonbury hunter gatherer groups would come from miles around to drink, listen to someone rock out on the deer-horn flute and enjoy themselves.

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March 1, 2022
Read more about the article The Rationality Fallacy: Why We Make Poor Decisions For The Planet
Human Behaviour / Marine Sustainability

The Rationality Fallacy: Why We Make Poor Decisions For The Planet

In the past many scientists and economists presumed we were purely rational beings, self-promoting our own interests with perfect knowledge of the consequences of our actions. These assumptions are really influential: many world governments rely on our self-interest and perfect decision-making to change our behaviour, hoping rational arguments and penny-savings will alter our trajectory towards crisis.

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August 2, 2019
Read more about the article Democracy is Key to Cooperating for the Future
Human Behaviour

Democracy is Key to Cooperating for the Future

Why is democracy the secret for sustainability? Two reasons: 1) it allows the majority of good sensible people to stop the unsustainable ones; 2) its makes sure that people feel they have the ability to make change, because without the ability to make change people see being sustainable as futile and give up - paradoxically ensuring what they hoped to avoid!

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March 12, 2019
Read more about the article The Legacy of One Man: Who Feeds Billions & Killed Millions
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The Legacy of One Man: Who Feeds Billions & Killed Millions

Fritz Haber was a German chemist, who made food from air. He invented the Haber-Bosch process that takes nitrogen from the air and turns it into fertiliser, feeding billions - half the protein in our body is a result of this process. He won a Nobel prize and was Albert Einsteins friend and for a time was one of Germany's heros. However he was also one of the fathers of gas warfare, responsible for countless horrific deaths (including his wife) and is considered a war criminal today.

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August 24, 2017