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Become a Mindful Sceptic
Question wisely, Think clearly, Act decisively.
Nov 3, 2024 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
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Understanding Jevons Paradox
Apr 15, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
The Number Nobody Will Say
Dec 30, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
Why Tree Numbers Are Not What They Seem
May 6, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
Curiosity, Questions, and Counting Millipedes
May 13, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield

Being A Mindful Sceptic

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Unsustainable Food Production
Notes from the Insight Vault on… Feeding Everyone
Jan 27 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
Are Apples Sustainable?
An apple a day is good dietary advice, but is it possible to eat an apple a day indefinitely?
Jan 13 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
A Graph That Upends Certainty
Why our global feast rides on invisible chemistry and borrowed ground
Dec 16, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
The Polycrisis Problem
What a broken bottle in the outback teaches us about connections
Nov 18, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
🎉 One Year of Clear Thinking
A heartfelt thank-you to everyone who’s read, questioned, and shared in a year of mindful scepticism. Your curiosity and support have made this journey…
Nov 4, 2025 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott

Uncomfortable Essays

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Dignity Under Constraint
Maintaining Human Values When Abundance Recedes
Mar 3 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
From Apocalypse to Adaptation
Reframing Narratives of Environmental Crisis
Feb 17 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
The Psychology of Enough
Contentment in a Post-Growth World
Feb 3 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
Dissonance, Dissociation and Cognition
Reconciling What We Know with How We Live
Jan 20 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield
Mindful farmers’ dilemma
Balancing Productivity and Regeneration in Food Systems
Jan 6 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield

Insight Vault

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Net Energy Realities
A Systems Spine for tracing the causal chain from energy subsidies to net energy limits.
Feb 24 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
Evidence Isn’t Enough
Stories Do the Heavy Lifting for Data
Feb 20 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
Green Persuasion Backfires
Why your favourite environmental campaign is only preaching to the choir
Feb 19 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
Facts Lose to Fur
Insight from the Mindful Sceptics Guide to Saving the Koala
Feb 19 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
Business-As-Usual Will Fail
Why continuing our current trajectory is not a choice, but a physical impossibility on a finite planet.
Feb 17 • Dr John Mark Dangerfield and Christopher Scott
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