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How far is the smart meter rollout globally?
Nearly half of the world population is living in urban areas nowadays. The future prospect is that the number of people living in cities will further increase. By 2050 two-thirds of world’s population will live in cities. Cities worldwide are responsible for seventy-five percent of global energy consumption and put pressure on the environment. Nonetheless, cities produce eighty percent of global GDP… Continue reading
LONGREAD: Who looks after the children?
On September 9th, 2025, UNICEF stated that one in ten children worldwide is living with obesity. There are now globally more children with obesity than underweight among school-age children and adolescents. Above that, one in seven children and adolescents have a mental health condition, stated the United Nations on October 9th, 2024. The most common conditions are anxiety, depression, and behavioural disorders. This… Continue reading
Is humanity AI ready?
Definitely not! However, not for the reasons that are commonly believed. Job loss is the least of your concern, although you might think otherwise. We have lived for millions of years without jobs, so we can really do without them again if we decide to. However, there is one thing we cannot do without, even though we pretend we can. That misperception points exactly to what makes AI life-threatening for the majority… Continue reading
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How can a well-intentioned idea turn into a world war?
The road to hell is most of the time paved with good intentions. We humans tend to see ourselves as good and those outside of us as wrong. Thinking in good and bad is a dualistic perspective that only exists in the human mind. Especially if the other person does not think like us, we humans tend to define that as wrong. However, what starts with a well-intentioned idea, can… Continue reading
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9 short-lived climate influences that warm or cool the Earth
Carbon dioxide (CO2) drives climate change over the long term because it accumulates in the atmosphere and stays there for a very long time. Each extra tonne adds to the overall concentration, which means more heat is trapped and the warming influence increases rather than disappears quickly. That way CO2 is a long-term force shaping global temperatures and climate patterns…
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What exactly these climate influences are, how they contribute to warming and/or cooling, and how they can be prevented, is discussed below… Continue reading
On average, water makes up fifty to seventy percent of your body, depending on your age, gender, and weight. A loss of ten percent body water means death. Water covers about seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface, so it is crucial not only for human life, but for all life on Earth. In general, you can survive about three days to a week without drinking water, depending on several factors. Higher physical activity increases water loss. Chronical health conditions may also shorten your survival time. Dehydration may soon lead to organ failure. Children and the elderly are more susceptible to dehydration. High humidity may hinder perspiration, making it harder for your body to cool down. High temperatures may lead to faster dehydration due to increased perspiration. In contrast, eating water-rich foods may increase your survival time. This underlines how important the freshwater supply is for human survival. So, how vulnerable are freshwater supplies worldwide right now, and what is the role of climate change in this?… Continue reading
LONGREAD: Global drinking water crisis: climate change reflecting long-standing issues humanity has neglected for generations
What drives wildfires, and is humanity—and its environment—more at risk today?
The most common wildfire in the world is a forest fire. Other wildfires include shrubland fires, grassland fires, savanna fires, and cropland fires. A wildfire is an uncontrolled burn in an area with combustible vegetation. While fire is a natural phenomenon in these land cover types, which is beneficial for ecosystems, unnatural wildfires can also destroy ecosystems, properties, and human lives, and reduce air quality. So, what causes wildfires nowadays, and what is the relationship between wildfires and climate change?… Continue reading
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What is the impact of aviation on climate change, and in particular the role of contrails in global warming?
In 2019, before the declared Covid-19 pandemic, there were 10.52 trillion available air travel seat-kilometres, of which 8.66 trillion kilometres were sold to paying passengers. In 2020, this dropped to 4.54 trillion and 2.95 trillion kilometres, respectively. Comparable figures were only seen before in 1999, with 4.05 trillion and 2.80 trillion kilometres. In 2024, air travel capacity and passenger traffic has recovered above 2019 levels, reaching 10.93 trillion and 9.10 kilometres. How does air traffic affect climate change and the environment, and how do contrails specifically contribute to global warming?… Continue reading
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Is climate change in itself necessarily a threat to humans?
Climate change is as old as the estimated 4.54 billion years that the Earth has existed. Over the past five hundred million years, global temperatures were too high for persistent polar ice caps. The last fifty million years form an exception to this. During this last colder period, Homo sapiens appeared approximately 300,000 years ago. During this period,… Continue reading
LONGREAD: Urban climate conditions explained: shifting the climate debate from who is right or wrong to understanding the complex urban climate reality
Climate change is mainly a challenge for urban human populations around the world. Urban areas in developed countries are often not built for changing climate conditions. In developing countries, population density is growing so fast that urban areas cannot keep up with the increasing… Continue reading
How does climate change affect life on Earth, both regionally and globally, and what is it actually telling us?
The effects of climate change vary by region worldwide. The five main climate regions into which the world can be divided are affected by climate change in different ways. So, how does climate change roughly affect human health, human societies, and nature in these regions and is climate change really the issue that humanity should be most concerned about?… Continue reading
How come so many people in this world are mentally ill?
Recent research has shown that some people have a higher risk of a mental disorder than others because of certain genes. Based on that, there is the idea that new, more effective individual treatments could be explored. Since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic was declared, however, depression and anxiety disorders have risen dramatically worldwide. That does not really sound like it is genetic!… Continue reading
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‘No time to waste’ was first used as a slogan by Greenpeace in the early 90s. It became one of Greenpeace’s most iconic ‘crisis’ campaign slogans, calling for action to protect the environment. More than thirty years later, humanity is not only still in the middle of a global environmental crisis but also has to deal with several other crises on an international or even global scale. People’s mental and physical health is… Continue reading
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