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Tag Archives: Global Population
My Global Family Vacation
Map of my global family vacation I have returned from my month-long vacation with my wife. One of the perks of being an academic is that my summers are my own. I show the route of my trip above. Clearly, … Continue reading
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Tagged age, app, application, Australia, BREXIT, communication, demagogue, democracy, Election, emigrant, emigration, England, EU, Europe, Family, flee, France, free market, generation, Global Population, heritage, History, Holocaust, immigrant, immigration, Israel, lie, lies, Malta, migrant, migration, Nazi, North Africa, oligarchy, Palestine, Palestinian, Poland, Population, presidential campaign, presidential election, ramification, refugee, screening, security, Story, tapestry, terror, Terrorism, terrorist, trade, UK, UN, US, World Population
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Immigration: Quantifying Migration
The Scope of Present Global Refugee Issues: Global migration (June 21, 2016) arises from people’s quest to survive and attain better opportunities. More specifically, people leave their homes: Due to war/civil war As a result of broken states In search … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, immigration, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, affiliation, Afghanistan, Africa, Anthropogenic, Bangladesh, Civil War, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, climate refugee, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Congo, danger, death, Democratization, demographic, Demographics, discrimination, displacement, DNNer, DRC, Economics, Economy, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, Emissions, Energy, Environment, estimate, Europe, Fertility, figure, forced displacement, forcibly displaced, Fossil Fuels, Germany, Global Population, Global Warming, graph, greenhouse gas, HUD, immigrant, immigration, India, IPAT, IPCC, Iraq, migrant, migration, minority, Mitigation, Physics, Population, Prediction, projection, quantify, quantitative, quantity, Race, refugee crisis, religion, Saudi Arabia, Science, Sustainability, Syria, Technology, trend, UN, UNHCR, US, War, World Population
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Immigration: IPAT
Noah Smith wrote an article in Bloomberg about how to convince the Japanese to have more kids: Japan would like to stabilize its rapidly aging population, and there are really only two ways to do that. It can let in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, IPCC, Sustainability
Tagged Abortion, Adaptation, adult, Affluence, Anthropocene, carbon dioxide, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, child, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, Contraception, developed countries, Developing Countries, Economics, Economy, Education, elderly, emigrant, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Fertility, Fertility Rate, Fertility Replacement Rate, Fossil Fuels, GDP, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, identity, immigrant, immigration, impact, India, indicator, individual, IPAT, IPCC, Japan, labor force, migration, Mitigation, one child, One-Child Policy, Population, Romania, Romney, social security, Sustainability, Technology, US, World Population
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Immigration: The Physics
Next week I will leave for my summer break. This time we are taking a complicated tour, starting in England a week after the Brexit referendum. Next we will spend a few days in Israel before continuing to Poland, Malta, … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Berlusconi, BREXIT, Britain, candidate, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change Fork, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, conservation, Democratization, disorder, Donald Trump, Economics, Education, emigration, Emissions, Energy, England, Entropy, Environment, Europe, France, Global Population, Global Warming, Hungary, immigration, interrupt, Israel, Jacques Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Le Pen, Lionel Jospin, Malta, Marine Le Pen, Mexico, migration, Mitigation, National Front, Nazi, neo-Nazi, nominee, obstacle, order, Physics, politician, politics, Population, Power, president, refugee, Republican, safe haven, Science, Silvio Berlusconi, Slovakia, social entropy, society, sovereign, Sovereign State, State, Thermodynamics, Trump, US, Vacation, Victor Orban, wall, Water, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: Learning Science in an Informal Environment
Political decisions in the Anthropocene require an understanding of the interactions between humans and the physical environment, as well as how to make them sustainable for future generations. These decisions cannot be limited to a small group of scientist advisors; … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Conference, Education, Sustainability
Tagged AAAS, Adaptation, advisor, Algebra, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, anti-science, belief, big bang, Bilingual, bilingualism, budget, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Conference, creation, decision, Democratization, DNNer, DOE, Economics, Education, Emissions, Energy, Environment, evolution, evolve, Fossil Fuels, Global Population, Global Warming, informal learning, intelligent creation, Karl Popper, knowledge, language, learn, learning, logarithm, Math, National Academies, opinion, perception, pew, pew research, poll, Popperian, public, recommendation, religion, School, Science, scientific method, scientist, setting, space, Sustainability, teach, Teaching, Technology, theory, understanding, university, US, vote, voter, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: The Global Picture
Just as the Anthropocene is global, so its governance must be as well. Of course, this is easier said than done; countries are the only sovereign entities we have, meaning that any such global governance can only be attained through … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, assessment, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, common core, country, Democratization, Economics, Education, education index, EI, Emissions, Energy, England, Environment, EYS, France, Global Population, Global Warming, governance, Government, Hong Kong, immigration, index, India, Indonesia, international ranking, Israel, Japan, Macao, Malta, migration, Mitigation, MYS, Nigeria, OECD, Pakistan, PISA, Poland, Policy, poll, Population, rank, refugee, Russia, School, schooling, Science, security, Shanghai, Singapore, survey, Sustainability, Syria, Taipei, teacher, Teaching, Technology, TERCE, test, TIMSS, US, World Population
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Educating for the Anthropocene: the Local View
The Anthropocene (April 26, 2016 blog) is a proposed epoch beginning when human activities started to have a significant global impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. Regardless of what we call our time period, if we want to successfully manage … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, Bilingual, bilingualism, Brooklyn College, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, college, common core, CUNY, decision, Democratization, ecology, Economics, ecosystem, Education, educational, employment, Environment, environmental studies, Fossil Fuels, gen ed, general education, geology, Global, Global Population, Global Warming, globalization, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, initiative, institution, Interdisciplinary, job, K-12, literacy, major, Military, Mitigation, pew, pew research, Physical Environment, Policy, poll, Population, prerequisite, quantitative, quantitative reasoning, Science, scientist, skill, skillset, Social Science, standards, statistic, Sustainability, Technology, training, Transition, UN, university, US, vote, Voting, World Population
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The Politics of the Anthropocene Part 2: The Data
Back to trying to politicize the Anthropocene. The key, as I see it (May 3, 2016), is that all of us must learn how to speak and listen in the same “language” (within English, Spanish, French, etc.). To do so … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Education
Tagged AAAS, achievement, Adaptation, african american, agree, agreement, animal research, Anthropocene, Anthropogenic, anti-science, astronaut, big bang, Bilingual, bioengineering, Biofuel, black, campaign, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, communication, consensus, consumer, curriculum, Data, democracy, democratic, Democratization, disagree, DNNer, Earth, Education, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, evidence, evolution, evolve, Fossil Fuels, fracking, fuel, Gas, genetic, genetically modified, Global Population, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, hispanic, human, human activity, K-12, language, man made, medical, medical treatment, Mitigation, NASA, not a scientist, Nuclear, nuclear power, offshore drilling, opinion, Pesticide, pew, pew research, Policy, poll, Population, Power, problem, producer, public, RDD, Research, Science, scientific journal, scientist, society, Solar, Solar Energy, space, stem, survey, Sustainability, Technology, trend, US, vaccine, vote, voter, World Population
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The Politics of the Anthropocene Part 1: The Triggers.
Last week I listed three articles that prompted me to shift my focus from the ongoing 2016 presidential campaigns to the more abstract aspects of politicizing the Anthropocene, but I did not have time to speak about the articles in … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropogenic, Climate Change, Sustainability
Tagged Adaptation, Anthropocene, anti-science, Bernie Sanders, bias, binary, campaign, candidate, center, Chernobyl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2, CO2 emissions, conservative, Donald Trump, Economics, Election, Emissions, Energy, Environment, environmental, Fossil Fuels, Fukushima, G.O.P, GDP, Gender, Global Population, Global Warming, GOP, governance, Government, greenhouse gas, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, law, liberal, Mitigation, Nuclear, Nuclear Energy, nuclear power, pew, Physics, political, politician, politics, poll, Power Plants, president, progressive, regulation, Science, single story, Sustainability, Technology, TED, US, World Population
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Goodbye Cuba – Hello Trump!
This blog is being posted on Tuesday, March 1st (Super Tuesday). Eleven states (and American Samoa) will select about 25% of the delegates that will choose the two party’s nominees to be elected President of the United States in November. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education, Sustainability
Tagged ad, advertisement, America, basket case, candidate, Castro, China, Citizen, Citizens United, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Skeptics, CO2 emissions, Cuba, delegate, democracy, democratic, democratic index, Donald, economic freedom, Economics, Economist, Economy, Education, Election, fact, fact check, federal, Fossil Fuels, GCP, Global Population, Global Warming, heritage foundation, India, Mauritius, Mitigation, money, North Korea, Obama, op-ed, PAC, Physics, Population, president, Rattner, Research, Samoa, Science, Sri-Lanka, Steven Rattner, Super Tuesday, Supreme Court, Sustainability, Swaziland, Technology, travel, Trump, UN, Uruguay, US, Vacation, World Bank, World Population
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