MAHB Newsletter for April 2024

Greetings to the MAHB Community,   

Check out the latest developments:

• A new study confirms the net benefits of smaller human populations for environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing (paper available).
• The Stanford Sustainability Accelerator offers a new post-doctoral fellowship opportunity.
• April 22 was Earth Day. Discover three simple steps to make a significant impact.
• The Night Before Later – an Earth Day poem.
• Abolishing the super-rich: a solution to tackling climate change and social injustice?
• The latest and final Think Resilience Course Art Call–Review, Assessment, And Action!

Our April blogs include:

• Exploring Local Ecological Connections (art section).
• Population growth is an environmental issue: a Sub-Saharan Africa perspective (paper available).
• The power of food production knowledge.
• Kohei Saito’s Degrowth Manifesto: salvation through Marx or old wine in new bottles?

Resources highlighted this month include:

• How the climate crisis affects our brains.
• Strategies for finding joy in simplicity.
• Pay ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle to reverse climate change and biodiversity loss.
• Why is the implementation of climate mitigation policies so slow? (The Lancet editorial, paper available).
• Why David Attenborough’s tone has grown more somber over the years.
• New study: over 80% of EU farming subsidies support emissions-intensive animal products.

Podcasts and videos:

• (Re)Watch the presentation by Prof. Tadeusz Patzek on humanity’s global overshoot (and how we might salvage human civilization).
• Nate Hagens and physicist Geoffrey West discuss metabolic scaling laws in nature. Can we adjust our societies to better align with the biophysical realities of energy and resource consumption?

Arts section:

Save April 30 and May 14 for interactive presentations and discussions by artists contributing to the exhibition “Resilience in Major Sectors,” inspired by the transformative principles of the Think Resilience Course. The online exhibition runs from April 10 to June 30.

Don’t forget to check out the latest MAHB announcements here.

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