Climate scientists have been calling recently for more research into warming scenarios of 3°C and above because such scenarios are dangerously neglected. According to mainstream models such levels of warming…
Last Thursday a new analysis of the main “tipping elements” in the Earth system was published in Science., The paper and its supplementary materials provide data on likely thresholds and…
Most of this article was written in 2017. I never finished it, but rather abandoned the project halfway §12 for reasons explained below. Until the horizontal line separating old from…
(This is part 9 of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series (SotA-R).) The latest iteration of the model I have been developing in this series in an attempt to…
Outside academia, Isaiah Berlin is probably best known for his distinction between “foxes” and “hedgehogs” based on Archilochus saying that “the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one…
(This is part 8 of the “Stages of the Anthropocene, Revisited” Series (SotA-R).) (This post was updated on July 28.) — Earlier this year I found a serious error in…
(Originally posted on April 27. Major revisions on June 3, 2022.) In chapter 5 of A Buddha Land in This World, I wrote that until the sūtras in the Pāli…
Publishing is a slow process. I wrote most of A Buddha Land in This World (BLiTW) in the first half of 2020, but it took until April 2022 until it…
My new book, A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism, has just been published. Here is the abstract/back cover blurb: In the early twentieth century, Uchiyama…