Sustainability

Extreme heat is unraveling global food systems, collapsing marine ecosystems, and enabling the spread of deadly diseases. Explore how planetary heating threatens civilization's foundation.

Humans evolved to thrive in specific temperatures, but the modern world is pushing us beyond our biological limits. Discover how urbanization, heat islands, and systemic inequality widen the thermal divide.

A four-part series examining the heat-driven crisis reshaping human life, ecosystems, and infrastructure — and who pays the price.

Extreme heat is an invisible force reshaping our planet. Explore how the 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave revealed the brutality of rising temperatures and their deadly toll on vulnerable populations.

Every tonne of plastic produced carries environmental and health costs that no producer has ever paid. The Plastic Cost Coverage Ratio compares what producers actually pay to the full external cost their production imposes on the environment and on human health — consistently between 0.01 and 0.05, meaning plastic producers capture less than five cents in environmental liability for every dollar of damage their products create.

Audits the EU Plastics Strategy, Extended Producer Responsibility regimes, and the UN Global Plastics Treaty INC process against the Plastic Cost Coverage Ratio, demonstrating the gap between policy ambition and industrial accountability.

Documents the discovery of microplastics in human blood (2020) and nanoplastics in human brain tissue (2023), and applies precautionary arithmetic to the incomplete and contested epidemiology of plastic particle health effects.

Maps the source geography of ocean plastic flows — which rivers, countries, and economic conditions deliver the most plastic to the sea — and traces the geopolitical structure of the Plastic Cost Coverage Ratio's geography.

Introduces the Plastic Cost Coverage Ratio and applies it to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation data showing that plastic producers capture less than 5 cents in liability for every dollar of environmental damage their products create.

The ocean generates more economic value annually than it extracts — but it earns its revenue in services that go unpriced while its losses are recorded in fish landings and mineral royalties. The Marine Extraction Ratio compares what we take from the ocean to what the ocean generates for us, and reveals why the accounting gap is the engine of overfishing, acidification, and the now-imminent expansion of deep-sea mining.