“This public person thus formed by the union of all the others […] is called the State when it is passive and Sovereign when it is active. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du
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In a year devastated by locust plagues, the COVID-19 pandemic, and massive flooding that displaced over a hundred thousand people and left nearly 200 dead, Kenyans have to take their
In this era of headlines-seeking media and twitter-like attention span, the decision-making process by the European Union (EU) is constantly being criticized, dramatized, and derided. Let’s write instead in praise
Europe’s quest to confront climate change and achieve carbon neutrality is being undermined by “Big Ag”? That’s not my claim. It’s the latest in a series of attacks on those
Among the climate community, the social cost of carbon corresponds to the net balance between harms and benefits resulting from a given climate change, mostly expressed in a global temperature
Abstract The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress and food policy. The history of crop domestication offers
Amidst the pain brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, a sliver of good news percolated earlier in May, when research from Nature Climate Change showed that CO2 emissions have fallen by
Many scholars and world leaders in politics and industry (Pinker, Obama, Gates, etc…) have argued rightly that the human condition has improved dramatically in the period after World War II:
The European Commission presented its hydrogen strategy in July 2020. It is convinced that it will be possible to make ‘clean’ hydrogen a viable solution for a climate-neutral economy and
This piece is the second of a two parts story by mathematician Philippe Lacoude. To read the first part, click on COVID-19 – The beginning of the end? (1) As we