{"id":166,"date":"2012-12-05T22:43:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T22:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/?p=166"},"modified":"2012-12-06T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T11:31:06","slug":"supersized-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/2012\/12\/05\/supersized-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Supersized Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div id=\"attachment_168\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/galleries\/p011xyg5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"size-full wp-image-168 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/files\/2012\/12\/p011xyl51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 1200km Shahe Aqueduct in China - from the BBC website<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Readers of this blog may be interested in the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p00zy57n\/episodes\/guide\">Supersized Earth<\/a> which you can watch on iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>The three episodes explore a few aspects of how humanity has being &#8220;redesigning&#8221; planet Earth to build the modern world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The parallels with the philosophy behind aspects of the CESER research programme and the wider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/about\/\">Earth Systems Engineering philosophy <\/a>are extremely clear.\u00a0 Although there is some amazing cinematography and the presenter covers some interesting ground I couldn&#8217;t help feeling it was a rather one sided take on the sustainability challenge &#8211; look how we&#8217;ve turned the desert into\u00a0farms <em>etc<\/em>. and\u00a0almost no consideration of the implications of waste, resource use, chemicals required and so on.\u00a0\u00a0As anyone familiar with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/researchprogramme\/\">research programme<\/a> will know these issues are of course highly complex &#8211; but if we do not seek to communicate, understand and address them a truly sustainable future seems unlikely, regardless of our technological feats.<\/p>\n<p>But please make your own mind up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers of this blog may be interested in the BBC&#8217;s Supersized Earth which you can watch on iPlayer. The three episodes explore a few aspects of how humanity has being &#8220;redesigning&#8221; planet Earth to build the modern world. The parallels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/2012\/12\/05\/supersized-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4909,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ceser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}