Κλιματική Αλλαγή: Μύθοι, πραγματικότητες και πολιτικές επιλογές
Η επιστήμη του κλίματος – όπως και κάθε επιστήμη – είναι γεμάτη από σιγουριές αλλά και από αβεβαιότητες. Ας δούμε πρώτα τις σιγουριές: ο πλανήτης μας θερμαίνεται. Οι επιστήμονες συμφωνούν ότι η μέση...
View ArticleClimate, apocalypse
Our planet has been warming up since the Industrial Revolution mainly due to the accumulation of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere, gases that result from the burning of fossil fuels that...
View ArticleThe roots (and futility) of conservation
The modern idea of conservation was born in 19th century evangelical United States and has its roots in literary – i.e. anti-evolution – Christian ideas about life on Earth and the age of our planet....
View ArticleThe political anticlimax of climate change
Our planet is warming up. Scientists agree that global average temperature is about 0.6oC higher than it was a century ago and that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have risen by about 30 percent...
View ArticleLiterary narratives and global warming
My talk (in Greek) at the Onassis Foundation in Athens,where I discussed my novel “The Passage” and the relationship between literary narratives and the contemporary understanding of global...
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