Tim is a PhD student in the Economics for the Anthropocene program, a graduate training and research partnership designed to improve how the social sciences and humanities connect to ecological and economic realities and challenges of the Anthropocene. His primary research interests involve energy dependency in industrial societies, global transition pathways from non-renewable to renewable energy resources, and applications of stochastic, systems-based modelling techniques to these issues.
Energy and the Green New Deal
That we must one day rely solely on renewable energy is true by definition. The fossil and nuclear fuels are depleting resources and their use entails ecological harm on an immense scale. Therefore, this use will eventually become infeasible, unacceptable, and uneconomic. But how we get from here to there is radically uncertain.
February 3, 2020
The World Needs Less from Us (and More)
Insisting on more and shaping the world to suit our designs is a Faustian bargain. What we face is not so much a problem to be solved, but a crisis of culture stemming from the hidden conflict between Lotka’s principle and the boundaries of a finite world.
May 17, 2018
Finding Allies in the Anthropocene
There is a growing realization that despite what the champions of progress tell us, we can’t just grow and invent our way to plenty, and we can’t continue to ignore the disasters we’re inflicting on those who already suffer the most from our unrelenting demands on nature. And maybe this is not enough, but it is enough to keep trying.
December 22, 2017