A Foreword to ‘Forging a Homeland’ – A Socio-Ecological Study into Community Land Ownership in Scotland
When someone mentions ‘land’ what do you think of? I know personally, land has forever evoked notions of the green pleasant land, of an English countryside littered with cottages which ensues a mosaic of quaintness sprawling across rolling hills. Perhaps it envisages a cold investment for the savvy or a distant Neverland of opulence -…
Sustainable for Whom? Interrogating Plant-Based Diets in the Era of Climate Crisis
About a year ago, I wrote an article that discussed the morality behind eating meat. It’s a question that I still feel strongly about, yet it is only part of the conversation. For many, many, years, scientists, politicians, and activists alike have argued around plant-based diets for their potential as a climate change solution. This…
Discussion: Who would want to live forever?
I’ve been increasingly interested by AI over the last couple of years. This interest started about 9 months prior to the release of ChatGPT, as a friend introduced me to OpenAI’s GPT-3 model. While a fun tool to play around with, it was a bit too error-prone for any practical applications within my university studies.…
Bridging The Gap: A Review of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Each of us builds our own story of nature. It shapes our perception of the environment around us and its narratives guide our behaviours, relationships, and teachings. Yet the story has become monolithic through the dominant power of Western environmental knowledge. Recognition and respect for this perspective and its achievements are crucial, for it has…
Foiling Thomas Malthus
Part 3 – Saving a billion lives In the 1950s and 1960s, the international geopolitical situation had placed humanity in a dangerous position. Tensions between United States and the Soviet Union were close to boiling over, and the Cold War drove competition between the two global superpowers in everything from nuclear warfare to art and…
Neolithic Genetic Engineering Was (Unsurprisingly) Inefficient
Part 2: An overview of modern plant breeding techniques and their advantages Approximately 12,000 years ago, humanity began a transition that would lead to a fundamental change in the way people live. Independently of each other, populations in 11 different regions spread across the world began the slow process of moving from nomadic hunter-gatherer societies…
Feeding A Changing World
Part 1: Climate change is threatening our food security. Could emerging technologies be an answer? As we enter 2024, the spectre of climate change continues to loom large in many of our minds. The unstable geopolitical situation across the world makes the prospect of coordinated international action on such a multifaceted issue seem more unlikely.…
Understanding the journey: from climate anxiety to green anarchism.
This article has a little less direction than my previous posts, but I feel it was more of a necessary cathartic process. I’m more than aware of the challenges faced when attempting to engage in the climate crisis, whether that be due to anxiety, distraction or apathy. What I hoped to feel writing this was…
What’s for dinner?
As a culture we seem to have arrived in a place where whatever native wisdom we once possessed about eating has been replaced by confusion and anxiety. Somehow this most elemental of activities has come to require a remarkable amount of expert help. From the atkins diet, to red meat and cardiovascular disease, opinions on…
Greenwashing our environmental problems away
“If we fail to identify and address greenwashing, we allow ourselves false confidence that we are already addressing the causes and treating the symptoms of the climate crisis.” — Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency Trust. It fills our lives. A truly primal emotion that builds and sustains relationships, from your parents to…
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