Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize A new freely downloadable bookI would like to announce the publication of a book, which deals with the world’s failure to adequately address the existential danger of catastrophic climate change. The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize “Only immediate climate action can save the future. If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilizations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon.” A new book I have written a 396-page book about the […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize A “With law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.”Njal’s Saga, Iceland, c 1270 AD Quick Navigation The present United Nations CharterWhy call war an “institution”?A World FederationThe success of federationsLaws binding on individualsGreatly increased financial […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize The superficiality of today’s televisionThe wealth and power of the establishmentNewspapers and warThe mass media and our present crisisOur duty to future generations The superficiality of today’s televisionSocial critic Neil Postman contrasted the futures predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace PrizeI would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Information Explosion”. This book discusses the role of information in evolution, and especially in the evolution of human culture. Articles and book chapters that I have previously written […]
Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace PrizeI would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Devil’s Dynamo”. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that I have written about the way in which military-industrial complexes throughout the world drive and perpetuate […]
[pullquote align=”normal” cite=”an excerpt from an appendix on the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize”]The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, abbreviated ICAN, is a coalition of 468 NGO’s in 101 countries. The purpose of ICAN is to change the focus in the disarmament debate to “the the humanitarian threat posed by nuclear weapons, drawing attention to […]
Visitors: 333 Prof. John Scales Avery, Ph.D., who was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in organizing the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network and Associate Professor Emeritus at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is […]
Visitors: 507 Prof. John Scales Avery, Ph.D., was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in organizing the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Member of the TRANSCEND Network. Associate Professor Emeritus at the H.C. Ørsted Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Chairman of both the Danish National […]