{"id":391,"date":"2011-08-11T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T17:34:49","slug":"future-directions-in-environmental-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Future directions in environmental science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/14\/magazine\/can-jeremy-grantham-profit-from-ecological-mayhem.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;seid=auto&amp;smid=tw-nytimes\">NYT magazine article<\/a> about investor Jeremy Grantham. Climate change is a huge current research topic in the environmental sciences, but it won&#8217;t remain so forever. Articles like this suggest that human resource limitation could be an up and coming research area.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to climate change,\u201d he said. \u201cGlobal warming is bad news. Finite resources is investment advice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>. . .we\u2019ll muddle through to a solution to Peak Oil and related challenges.\u00a0Peak Everything Else will prove more intractable for humanity. Metals, for instance, \u201care entropy at work . . .Local water shortages will cause \u201cpersistent irritation\u201d \u2014 wars, famines. Of the three essential macro nutrient fertilizers, nitrogen is relatively plentiful and recoverable, but we\u2019re running out of potassium and phosphorus. . .\u00a0And he rates soil erosion as the biggest threat of all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting NYT magazine article about investor Jeremy Grantham. Climate change is a huge current research topic in the environmental sciences, but it won&#8217;t remain so forever. Articles like this suggest that human resource limitation could be an up and coming research area. People are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}