John Gibbons
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- Aug 22, 2026
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- Aug 17, 2026
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The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis: A sobering narrative (opens the original)
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This is a history book about the future. Thatâs how volcanologist Bill McGuire introduces his latest title on the climate crisis. The geological record, he reminds us, âis never wrongâ, and what it has to say about our near- and longer-term future is anything but reassuring. The closest analogue to todayâs global climate occurred about three million years ago, during the mid-Piacenzian Warm Period, when sea levels were up to 25m higher than today. If global carbon dioxide levels remain a
Short on land, long on vision: Dutch lead the way on food production (opens the original)
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Amid the welter of government-backed agri-food industry plans based around the continued expansion of food exports, there remains a deafening silence around the crunch issue of Irelandâs national food security. In contrast, in the UK there is growing alarm that, as geopolitical tensions escalate, climate-fuelled extreme weather events intensify and global supply chains fray, its population is likely facing into soaring food prices and outright shortages in the near term. The UKâs Climate Cha
John Gibbons: Ireland needs an agriculture policy. Instead it has an agri-food industry (opens the original)
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Earlier this summer, Denmark, a country of similar population to Ireland, did the unthinkable: it formally scrapped its century-old agriculture ministry, the first EU country to do so. In a move that read like a plot twist from the Danish political drama Borgen, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen unveiled its new Ministry of Nature and Animal Welfare. At least part of this radical revamp has been aimed at breaking the decades-long stranglehold of agri-industrial lobbyists on government policy. Sou
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