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Camille Parmesan Part 2: Seeing a healthy ecosystem, alive and vibrant, helps me to be a happier person

by pennyurquhart | Jan 29, 2019 | climate change, climate conversations, environment, Uncategorized

This is Part 2 of my conversation with evolutionary and behavioural biologist Professor Camille Parmesan, of Plymouth University and the SETE/CNRS Ecology Centre in Moulis, France, in which Camille talks about the moments when she realised how severely climate change...

Camille Parmesan Part 1: “Go visit a living coral reef while you can”

by pennyurquhart | Dec 21, 2018 | climate conversations, climate governance, Uncategorized

When I spoke to evolutionary and behavioural biologist Professor Camille Parmesan in Plymouth in the dog days of the northern summer of 2018, I was under no illusion of the severity of our climate change situation. Talking to her further crystallised some of my own...

Psychological impacts of climate change: poetry to the rescue

by pennyurquhart | Apr 6, 2016 | climate change and health, climate justice, Uncategorized

Image: Earth Hour 2016 Was it any coincidence that Human Rights Day in South Africa fell on the same day as World Poetry Day – 21st March? Not if you consider how a number of South African poets shone a light on the injustices of the apartheid era – think of Ingrid...

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