Global Warming: Food Supplies & Avoiding the ‘Urban Graveyard Effect’

Published June 22nd, 2014 by Peter Kinder

History – human experience catalogued – tells us how people react to climate stress and how sovereigns cope – or don’t – with the societal problems it spawns.…

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Joseph & Pharaoh: A Lesson for a Time of Climate Change

Published November 11th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

I’ve been reading Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Yale Univ. Press, 2013) by Ohio State history professor Geoffrey Parker. Parker has…

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Fear, Fortitude & the Future: Toward Investor Standards Based on History for Gauging Preparation for Warming

Published November 1st, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Note: This post is a revised version of a talk I gave at the 24th annual Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing sponsored by First Affirmative Financial Network (FAFN)…

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