Dan Bloom
Hamish MacDonald's "Finitude" for Climate Activists to Ponder
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Bradley Winterton, writing in the Taipei Times in Taiwan, recently gave big thumbs up to one of the first climate chaos novels to come out of Britain, Finitude, penned by a Canadian expat in Edinburgh named Hamish MacDonald. While the…
Imagine the Middle East in the Year 2500: a Worst Case Climate Scenario
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Dan Bloom, an advocate of polar cities (a prototype for a building above), paints a bleak future for the Middle East. Action against climate change is needed now. Two recent international news stories about climate change (“How much more proof…
Jennifer C. Daniels Asks if Farming and City Intersect in the Middle East?
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Jennifer C. Daniels is a visionary and artist in Florida who poses a good question for the world today — can farms and cities intersect in this modern world? Much of what she discusses applies to life in the Middle…
Vertical Farms May be the Only Crop Solution for the Middle East
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Proposed vertical farms like this one in Dubai may be the only way for supplying food to Middle East countries. Dickson D. Despommier is a professor of public health at Columbia University in New York, and if he gets his…
Will You Be A Middle East Climate Refugee? Escape To An Underground Desert Living Unit
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Can’t stand the climate change heat? Why not move underground? For Reynard Loki and Jennifer Daniels, the future might lie, for some people in places such as Israel or Australia, in what they are calling Underground Desert Living Units, UDLU…
