Nick King is a chartered earth and environmental scientist working primarily in professional consulting and the energy industry. He has worked with the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University since 2018 on subject areas including energy and global risk and is also affiliated with the Schumacher Institute think tank. He has also presented and written opinion pieces about a number of environmental and systems thinking topics.
Cities, Roads, and the Sixth Extinction Event
The ‘tipping point’ at which humanity became a majority-urban species finally occurred in 2008; this trend has continued (55% by 2018), and may be 70% by the middle of the 21st century.
April 4, 2024
‘Pre-Polycrisis’ Hazard Mitigation
What is proposed here is that a planned and deliberate effort to minimise burdens on embattled future societies by strategically addressing some of the most severe hazards left by recent and contemporary societies might be both a responsibility and duty.
March 11, 2024
Nuclear Waste and the Polycrisis
The unique risk profile of nuclear wastes has therefore in recent decades compelled governments and other authorities to seek a remedial strategy which is commensurate with the challenge whilst also being effective,
February 20, 2024
What Energy Paradigm Might Underpin Degrowth and Steady State Economies?
Despite the increasing depth and granularity of non-growth economic model research, one aspect is currently relatively under-represented in these efforts, namely the nature of the energy paradigm that could underpin societies operating in this form.
February 6, 2024