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Research Professor, CSIC, UÉ, Editor-in-Chief of Ecography. Biogeographer seeking to understand how different facets of life distribute in space and time, and why.
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More here: www.maraujolab.eu/2025/03/02/t...
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Good reflection. Yet, I disagree that their inhospitable, indecent, undemocratic, and non-independent behavior shows lack of strategy. What happened was carefully staged and aimed at achieving strategic results, much like Vance’s provocation in Germany. They know exactly what they are doing and why.
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Yet, there is hope in the growing momentum for marine protected areas, which help safeguard biodiversity, and enhance the ocean’s ability to regulate climate. Expanding these areas and ensuring their effective management remains one of the most promising strategies to counter these trends.
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Unfortunately, as the world veers off course, oceans will continue to warm, excess heat will keep dissipating as kinetic energy and intense evaporation, and marine biodiversity will keep losing its capacity to sink carbon—currently around 25% of annual emissions.
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We are witnessing a massive transfer of public money to the oligarchs, only comparable to what we witnessed in the end of the URSS, where previously owned public companies were transferred to private hands (of a few loyalists) at zero cost.
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And the antidote being well known from old times: “With law our land shall rise, but it will perish with lawlessness.” - Njal’s Saga, C. 1280
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Also available online: www.youtube.com/live/e5wcExW...
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Article in newspaper Público about our paper (in Portuguese): www.publico.pt/2025/01/12/a...
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This is a good idea but most universities of reference are private corporations. So creating endowments is not complicated. For public institutions the models is unlikely to be feasible.
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Thanks. That was long time ago. Glad it was useful 🙏
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www.maraujolab.eu/2024/12/11/b...
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Sure. There are shades of grey but I am not sure everyone understands them. Representing science in policy discussions involves great responsibility. You are not just informing people, you are also ensuring science’s credibility (without which it becomes irrelevant).
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Of course the boundary is not about science communication. Scientists have a duty to communicate risks from climate change. Activism is something else. It is about action and solutions and these belong to politics and ideology.
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If you don’t draw lines between science and activism you will eventually drag science and its credibility down the gutter. This article is utterly irresponsible.
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We also have French, German, Portuguese and Spanish versions in our YouTube chanel.