Development and Climate

I hope you enjoyed my previous article about the relationship between Economic Wealth and Climate. In this article, I intend to talk about a related but different concept: Human Development! The reader may think that the richest (wealthiest) countries are ALWAYS the most developed. Despite a strong relationship between the two concepts, these are different. How to measure a Country’s Human Development? To explain Human Development, I will focus on an indicator developed and compiled by the United Nations: the Human Development Index.

November 14, 2019

Economic Wealth and Climate

When in university in the early 2010’s in Portugal, me and my colleagues would discuss whether all the richest countries had to be the ones with the worse weather. The worse weather for us represented cold temperatures and this vision made sense for us based on a Southern European country and glancing at Northern counterparts, such as Germany or Norway. However, we always kept one country in our mind: Australia!

November 10, 2019

Vegetarianism in the World

Vegetarianism! What’s Vegetarianism? Starting with a definition from our beloved Wikipedia: “Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat (red meat, poultry, seafood, and the flesh of any other animal), and may also include abstention from by-products of animals processed for food.” As a personal disclosure, I have started my road to vegetarianism from the end of 2017. However, most of the time I have been pescatarian, and being Portuguese should allow for some sort of excuse to this.