Category Archives: Climate Change

 In this blog, I will return to the issue of the environmental cost of AI (September 3rd and 10th blogs) that I wrote about in response to Sonya Landau’s question. The technology is changing fast and is being compared to … Continue reading →

Recently, Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank, compared the present global economy to that of the 1920s. Below I cite some of the highlights: The global economy is facing rifts comparable to the pressures that resulted in “economic … Continue reading →

(Source: ResearchGate)  The IPAT identity is a central feature of every sustainability discussion. Just put the acronym into the search box to see this blog’s coverage of the topic. Three previous blogs stand out. The post from November 26, 2012, … Continue reading →

From my perspective, the top photograph encapsulates the way we vote. The picture is not AI generated or even edited; I took it with my iPhone. It shows a mirror in my apartment that faces my terrace, which looks out … Continue reading →

 (Source: Designhubz.com) Last week, I promised to use this week’s blog to show the results of an initial exploration of the role that AI presently plays in sustainability. Sonya Landau raised the question with me, so I used Copilot (Microsoft … Continue reading →

We are approaching the end of summer (“officially,” it ends on September 22nd, not on Labor Day). Watching from my terrace in NYC, I can see that the sun rises a bit later and sets a bit earlier every day … Continue reading →

Last week I tried to analyze the recent Paris Olympics by using a similar methodology to that I used to analyze global trends such as climate change, fertility decline, digitization, global penetration of electricity, and the use of nuclear energy. … Continue reading →

Throughout the more than 12 years that I have been writing this blog, my emphasis has been on trying to identify and analyze what I see as evolving global trends that can help both students and others navigate through changing … Continue reading →

A recent description of a decision made by Spanish police caught my attention (An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. – The New York Times): Ms. Hemid’s husband of more than a decade, Bouthaer el … Continue reading →

The issues associated with the global decline in fertility rates have occupied us almost since the beginning of this blog (see the Jim Foreit Guest Blog: How Does Population Decline? on January 14, 2014, the follow-up blogs on January 21 … Continue reading →