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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Failing States, Collapsing Systems - BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Failing States, Collapsing Systems - BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence

My new book which has just been published by the global science publisher, Springer, is called, Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence (2017). 

Published as part of the SpringerBriefs in Energy series, the book is a peer-reviewed scientific monograph on how state failures around the world are being driven by systemic crises driven by interconnected climate, energy, food and economic crises. The series editor is Prof Charles Hall, the founder of the concept of Energy Return on Investment (EROI) which measures the efficiency of an energy system by calculating the quantity of energy used to extract new energy from a particular resource.

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Nafeez AhmedEROI, biophysical, civil unrest, climate change, collapse, crisisofcivilization, degrowth, energy, environment, food crisis, global system failure, peak oil, political violence, state failure, systemComment
Exclusive interview with The Guardian on how to survive a global collapse
Exclusive interview with The Guardian on how to survive a global collapse

I did this exclusive interview for a feature article inspired by Ubisoft's new console game, Tom Clancy's The Division, with The Guardian. My interviewer, Guardian games and tech editor Keith Stuart, did a fantastic job of covering serious risks with funny, yet probing, questions.It's a tongue-in-cheek conversation, but it does cover some real issues. 

The most important of which is that if you want to survive the apocalypse (any apocalypse), remember, you have to share the baked beans - not hoard them all for yourself. Yes, really.

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Nafeez Ahmedcollapse, disaster, guardian, guide, keith stuart, pandemic, survival, the division, ubisoftComment
INSURGE exclusive on risk of civilisation collapse by 2040 goes viral, global
INSURGE exclusive on risk of civilisation collapse by 2040 goes viral, global

On 19th June, INSURGEintelligence ran an exclusive story on a new scientific model supported by a UK government Task Force, which shows that on a business-as-usual trajectory, industrial civilisation as we know it is likely to collapse within three decades, due to a global food crisis triggered by climate change and energy depletion. The story made the front-page of The Independent website, and credited Insurge Intelligence with breaking it.

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Nafeez Ahmedanglia ruskin university, civilisation, climate change, collapse, food crisis, foreign office, insurge, media, model, news Comments