The Tectonic Clock – Part 4: Skyscraper Waves: When Oceanic Collapse Devastates Continents13 March 2019·936 words·5 minsSustainability and Future Disaster Analysis Sustainability Systems Thinking Development and InequalityExamining the megatsunami risks from volcanic landslides and their continental impacts.
The Tectonic Clock – Part 3: Fire or Ice: The Climate Paradox of the Interglacial Age12 March 2019·1050 words·5 minsSustainability and Future Disaster Analysis Sustainability Systems Thinking Development and InequalityExploring the conflict between anthropogenic warming and natural Ice Age cycles.
The Tectonic Clock – Part 2: The Shadow of Toba: Super-Eruptions and Volcanic Winter11 March 2019·988 words·5 minsSustainability and Future Disaster Analysis Sustainability Systems Thinking Development and InequalityExamining the catastrophic potential of volcanic super-eruptions and their global impacts.
The Tectonic Clock – Part 1: Living on the Fraying Edge of Planetary Calm10 March 2019·1144 words·6 minsSustainability and Future Disaster Analysis Sustainability Systems Thinking Development and InequalityExploring the paradox of Earth's life-giving yet dangerous dynamism.
The Rust Tax: Why Maintenance is the Secret to Civilization13 February 2019·1118 words·6 minsSystems and Innovation Rust Tax Corrosion Maintenance Infrastructure Sustainability Systems Thinking Design and Innovation Systems Thinking Trade and Supply Chains SustainabilityThe Rust Tax reveals how corrosion costs the global economy $2.5 trillion annually, representing 3.4% of GDP. Maintenance is not an expense but the fundamental rent we pay to occupy the physical world.
Part 5: The Rainbow Bridge and the Feedback Loop: Climate Risk and the Poverty of Persuasion21 January 2019·911 words·5 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Bioethics Behavioral-Economics Mortality Justice SustainabilityThe challenges of motivating action against long-term climate threats and the poverty of persuasion.
Part 4: The Economic Calculus of Cruelty: Distancing, Blindness, and the Revenges of the CAFO20 January 2019·1117 words·6 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Bioethics Behavioral-Economics Mortality Justice SustainabilityHow psychological mechanisms enable ethical evasion in animal cruelty and factory farming.
Part 3: Longevity's Hidden Tax: The Dynamic Justice of Intergenerational Caregiving19 January 2019·1027 words·5 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Bioethics Behavioral-Economics Mortality Justice SustainabilityThe economic and ethical costs of extended lifespans on intergenerational justice and caregiving burdens.
Part 2: When Compassion Clashes with the Oath: Physicians as Arbiters of Static Justice18 January 2019·1223 words·6 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Bioethics Behavioral-Economics Mortality Justice SustainabilityThe moral dilemma of duty versus mercy in end-of-life care, resolved through game theory and the Nash Solution.
Part 1: The Prisoner of Choice: How the Two Selves Betray Our Living Wills17 January 2019·1366 words·7 minsHuman Systems and Behavior Bioethics Behavioral-Economics Mortality Justice SustainabilityThe internal war between rational intent and psychological reality in living wills and end-of-life decisions.