This channel seeks to understand the issues that face our civilisation in the 21st Century and focusses on the potential solutions that will save as many lives as possible and hopefully bring about a greater level of equality in the world. The channel is not a debating forum about whether Human Induced Climate Change is a real phenomenon or not. If that’s what you’re after then I can highly recommend chat forums on Social Media, where people on both sides of the argument go round and round in circles achieving precisely nothing at all.
That is a mug’s game. And it’s not my game.
Anyway, outside of those caveats, I do try to keep it light and humorous wherever possible, so I hope you enjoy the content.
Oh..and me… Dave Borlace. Born 1969. BSc in Technology from the Open University in the UK. After a 30 year career in People and Project Management, I now work full time on the channel thanks to the amazing folks who support me on Patreon http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink
From Just Have a Think. Recent research shows that yields of our most important cereal crop – maize – could be down by as much as 24% by mid-century, by which time the human population will have grown by 2 BILLION people. That’s a lot of extra mouths to feed with fewer and fewer available…
From Just Have a Think. Our oceans absorb about 30% of all the carbon dioxide that we humans spew into our atmosphere, and about 90% of the consequent planetary heat. If that process didn’t happen then our planet would be uninhabitable for us humans. New research has revealed that our understanding of how carbon is…
From Just Have a Think. Our oceans absorb about 30% of all the carbon dioxide that we humans spew into our atmosphere, and about 90% of the consequent planetary heat. If that process didn’t happen then our planet would be uninhabitable for us humans. New research has revealed that our understanding of how carbon is…
From Just Have a Think. Solar panels don’t just generate electricity. New research suggests that large, ground-mounted solar farms can alter soil moisture, temperature, vegetation, and even carbon storage, particularly in arid and desert regions. Not all deserts are the same though. Large solar developments in the wrong region can still damage fragile ecosystems if…
From Just Have a Think. The international Energy Agency has courted controversy in recent years. It published a ‘Roadmap to Net Zero 2050" report a couple of years back and drew fury from the fossil fuel industry who had previously regarded the IEA as essentially their puppet mouthpiece. In 2023 The IEA Executive Director even…