It has been over four years since the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). Although the UK has officially left the EU on the 31st of January 2020, nothing much has changed just yet. This is because the UK is now in an 11-month transition period, in which they still have
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How humans have managed to break loose from the rest of life.
Last week, I saw the new documentary by David Attenborough: A Life on our Planet. His documentaries are often about how beautiful the Earth is, but this one was different. He shows how humans have made a mess of our planet. Attenborough reveals in a very clear way how nature has developed since the 1950s.
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“It was like driving through hell,” was one of the reactions after a midnight evacuation last week in the state of Oregon. After looking at the scenes in California, Oregon, and Washington, you might even compare the situation to an apocalypse with the sky in California turning completely orange. Over the last few weeks, these
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The economic contraction in the second quarter of 2020 was disastrous for the EU. Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, reports that the seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 11.7% in the EU compared to the first quarter of 2020. Of course, this had everything to do with the peak of lockdown restrictions. All European
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Betting on an old “money-maker” versus investing in renewable energy. Why is the energy sector not investing more in renewables?
The energy sector is facing challenging times in which it has to balance short-term returns with its long-term license to operate. Shell, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, started a massive reorganization as they expect a permanent decline in the price of oil and gas due to the corona crisis.
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Consequences of extreme weather events such as heat and drought are disruptive to our global economy. How large these negative effects are going to be, is yet to be decided (by ourselves). You might think that the negative effects of climate change are only visible in the long term, but we can already see the
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While the word lockdown may well end up as word of the year in 2020, we might be locking-in our world into a devastating climate crisis. Many countries across the world are slowly easing the coronavirus lockdown restrictions, without realizing that an even bigger crisis is awaiting us. Oxford-economists are pointing towards the dramatic consequences
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