MAJOR error in this text that you need to fix. Paper book production isn’t 3rd largest greenhouse gas emitter - they are 3rd largest in *pulp & paper industry* and the ENTIRE pulp and paper industry’s GHG emissions is about 0.6% of US net GHGs, which makes it SUPER small.
This is just to say that this made me laugh.
Dispiritingly ironic only a week after the IUGS confirmed the decision not to ratify the SQS's decision about the non-existence of the Anthropocene (irrespective of what one thinks about that decision).
Will do - though I'm not sure I see where the ?longer version is?
The rooms are a little like aquariums–I wonder whether we know which of the little bowls he preferred to mentally swim around!?
I didn't know that, but of course can completely see how its collection would interest him (as well as the ways in which its holdings might shape what he would explore). It's a lovely little library.
Chapeau to @smidbob.bsky.social , who sounds like a Richard White kind of guy, although White's avowal that he researches while writing continues to terrify me as the summit of a peak I'll never reach 😂.
Grateful for these @michaelhobbes.bsky.social@profgabriele.com@nateo.bsky.social which I was sadly ignorent of. I used Michael Mann's take with my students last week: Michael Mann, 'Have Wars and Violence Declined?', Theory and Society, 47 (2018), 37-60. It's the core of Mann's new 'On Wars'.
A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But wha...
This is very nice on using a personal 'Eureka' moment to elaborate one's argument in a thumbnail.
How amazing. Will think about every time I walk past.