Looking for all the scientific and source references from my book This One Wild and Precious Life? You’ve landed at the right spot.
Rather than waste trees putting these to print, I’ve listed them here (and explain as such throughout the book). I also figured that many of you might enjoy following up some of the references yourselves and so I’ve provided hyperlinks where I can so you can read further.
Knock yourselves out!
Page 3, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister blames exploding horse manure …
Page 7, In early 2020, Australia’s spy chief …
Page 7, In the 2019 Australia Talks survey …
Page 7, And a recent survey in France …
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/macron-versus-the-yellow-vests/
Page 8, We also wiped out another 20 per cent…
Page 8, … the Great Barrier Reef had three major bleaching events …
A figure that includes mammals, birds and reptiles, but not bats, frogs, insects or other invertebrates: https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/01/08/australian-bushfires-more-than-one-billion-animals-impacted.html
Page 8, Life expectancy in the United States declined …
Source 2 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2756187
Page 10, For our purposes here …
Page 10, An extensive meta study …
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0002716214558393
Page 19, In 2018 the British parliament …
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-launches-governments-first-loneliness-strategy
Page 19, One study found loneliness is ‘contagious’ …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792572/
Page 19, One report found that smoking fifteen cigarettes …
https://academic.oup.com/ppar/article/27/4/127/
Page 19, Indeed a 2019 study rated Australians…
Page 19, But then, funny creatures that we are …
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2015/05/20/americans-views-about-data-collection-and-security/
Page 19, One major international travel company …
https://viewfinder.expedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Expedia-Solo-Travel-US-Report.pdf
Page 20, Two-thirds of men …
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6192/75
Pages 20–1, We share 60 per cent of our DNA …
Page 21, We are literally breathing molecules …
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2009/05/23/paul-hawkens-commencement-address-class-2009
Page 21, The study found that they were not working …
https://quillette.com/2018/12/14/video-games-and-the-male-meaning-of-life/
Page 22, While for the 20-60 per cent …
https://ourworldindata.org/living-alone
Page 22, Human touch sees us downregulate …
The Heart of Trauma, Bonnie Badenoch
Page 27, The 13th-century theologian Thomas Aquinas …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas
Page 31, She added that choosing this shadowed side …
http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500221h.html#ch22
Page 35, We’re lonely because of online dating …
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2722666
Page 35, We link screen time to teen mental health decline …
Source 1 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcpp.13190
Source 2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797619830329
Page 42, Paul Theroux wrote …
The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas
Page 43, I explained my theory that opulence …
https://www.socialmedianews.com.au/social-media-statistics-australia-january-2019/
Page 43, In his book The Decadent Society …
https://www.mybusiness.com.au/management/5425-national-crisis-australian-innovation-in-dire-straits
Page 44, With half the population single …
Source 1https://www.census.gov/newsroom/facts-for-features/2017/single-americans-week.html
Source 2 https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/036
Page 47, I read articles about how the virus and isolation …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2020/04/05/coronavirus-is-changingonline-dating-permanently/
Page 49, We also know that most of the lids contain BPA …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5026908/
Page 50, Oh, and the biodegradable cups? Hmmm …
https://phys.org/news/2017-12-truth-bioplastics.html
Page 50, Most end up in landfill …
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/methane/
Page 52, The young people interviewed …
https://money.cnn.com/2018/03/07/retirement/millennial-retirement-savings/index.html
Page 52, A Harvard University study …
Page 52, A UK YouGov poll found that …
Page 52, … in Germany, 77 per cent of people …
https://social.shorthand.com/montie/3C6iES9yjf/what-the-world-thinks-of-capitalism
Page 53, Marc Benioff, chief executive of Salesforce …
Page 54, We could see the system for what it was …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/coronavirus-china.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
Page 55, A disaster doesn’t so much break a system …
http://www.fyicomminc.com/gaianews/katrinawords.h
Page 55, Of the materials flowing through …
Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism (1999) page 81.
Page 56, And the cotton in that $5 tee …
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2019/09/23/costo-moda-medio-ambiente
Page 56, We know that by 2050 …
Page 56, Yet a recent study …
Source 2 https://tappwater.co/us/how-many-people-consume-bottled-water-globally/
Page 56, Ditto single-use coffee cups …
Page 60, In 2018, the world’s 2200 billionaires …
Page 60, Yes, the majority …
Page 62, Seriously, it’s faux science funded …
https://www.economist.com/news/2019/03/16/death-of-the-calorie
Page 62, And what about when a global pandemic strikes …
Page 73, Other characteristics of a cult …
http://www.csj.org/studyindex/studycult/study_lifton2.htm
Page 77, And indeed, the yawning divide …
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/
Page 77, Similarly, following the devastating Australian bushfires …
Page 78, Climate scientists predicted such a pandemic …
Page 78, And a number of researchers …
https://energyandcleanair.org/air-pollution-deaths-avoided-in-europe-as-coal-oil-plummet/
Page 78, David Quammen, author of Spillover …
Page 78, Then the rising waters and temperatures …
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/28/is-factory-farming-to-blame-for-coronavirus
Page 78, New research by Harvard University …
Page 78, A similar study demonstrated cleaner air …
Page 78, The World Food Program …
Pages 78–9, As the United Nations’ secretary-general …
Page 79, It has been said that what we face …
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/climate-change-global-warming.html
Page 80, David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth …
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genocide-coming-but-its-worse-than-that.html
Page 80, But it’s young people …
https://psychweek.org.au/2019-report/
Page 80, In the United States …
Pages 80–1, A similar survey of 6500 women found …
Page 81, The (admittedly controversial but eminent) British scientist James Lovelock …
Page 81, And a paper released in 2019 …
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_a1406e0143ac4c469196d3003bc1e687.pdf
Page 81, Mass deaths are predicted to result from the disease out breaks …
https://theconversation.com/how-global-warming-is-adding-to-the-health-risks-of-poor-people-109520
Page 81, … air pollution, malnutrition and …
Source 2 https://www.brown.edu/news/2017-07-25/warming
Page 82, More than 97 per cent of actively publishing …
https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
Page 82, Science confirmed more than thirty years ago …
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/ar4-wg1-chapter1.pdf
Page 83, It was a colossal duping …
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476775389/?tag=thneyo0f-20
Page 83, But then Big Oil stepped in …
https://thinkprogress.org/koch-industries-the-100-million-ton-carbon-gorilla-ab5c1551eb2b/
Page 83, And continue to do so.
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/climate-deniers/koch-industries/
Page 83, Thousands of scientists from all over the world …
https://unfccc.int/process/the-paris-agreement/status-of-ratification
Page 84, So how are we looking? Pretty bad, TBH.
https://www4.unfccc.int/sites/NDCStaging/Pages/All.aspx
Page 84, President Trump has said the United States …
Source 1 https://climate-xchange.org/2020/04/09/webinar-recap-cities-confronting-the-climate-crisis/
Source 2 https://www.nrdc.org/experts/kit-kennedy/how-states-will-continue-drive-climate-action-2020
Page 84, Horrifying truth …
https://climateactiontracker.org/global/temperatures/
Page 84, IPCC scientists, such as Christiana Figueres …
https://www.amazon.com/Future-We-Choose-Surviving-Climate-ebook/dp/B07Y7HZLX8
Page 84, … commentators such as David Wallace-Wells …
https://www.amazon.com.au/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576703
Page 84, … and a host of international experts …
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/148cb0_a1406e0143ac4c469196d3003bc1e687.pdf
Page 85, And bear in mind, many say that as ‘tipping points’ compound …
https://www.amazon.com/Facing-Climate-Emergency-Transform-Yourself-ebook/dp/B07V5D4MMT
Page 86, Plus, a recent report by economists …
http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/publication/the-missing-economic-risks-in-assessments-of-climate-change-impacts/
Page 86, New research published in Scientific American …
Page 86, The bushfires in Australia …
https://www.publish.csiro.au/wf/wf08133
Page 86, … and permafrost in the Canadian Arctic …
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL082187
Page 87, The Exponential Roadmap report …
https://exponentialroadmap.org/
Page 87, A recent scientific analysis …
Page 87, I explored a stack of documented examples …
https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/03/srccs_chapter2-1.pdf
Page 88, Project Drawdown (a US non-profit organisation) …
Page 88, The consumption of the world’s wealthiest …
Page 88, … while the poorest half of humanity …
https://ourworld.unu.edu/en/the-worlds-richest-people-also-emit-the-most-carbon
Page 88, And three, India and China …
Page 88, And China has banned single-use …
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51171491
Page 89, As I mentioned earlier, more than 70 per cent …
Page 89, Harvard political scientist Erica Chenoweth …
https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
Page 90, The hole has shrunk …
Page 98, Climate psychologist Margaret Klein Salamon …
https://www.theclimatemobilization.org/impact
Page 102, In the absence of a scientific explanation …
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002894
Page 107, All the same, philotimo …
Page 115, Says the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens …
[SAME SOURCE AS PREVIOUS ENTRY]
Page 116, In Michigan, where the coronavirus hit early and hard …
https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/0,9753,7-406-98163_98173—,00.html
Page 116, People living in ‘front-line communities’ …
Page 117, A US Navy captain sacrificed his career …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/coronavirus-crozier-roosevelt.html
Page 117, … in Wuhan, as soon as public transport …
Page 117, … communities in Johannesburg made survival packs …
https://twitter.com/sunnyboymorgan/status/1243087204500623361
Page 117, … students in Prague babysat …
Page 117, As George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/31/virus-neighbours-COVID-19
Page 122, But he writes of a ‘third way’ …
https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/ambigamy/201009/soulnerd-the-third-spiritual-path
Page 131, These circuits sparked vital processes …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf
Page 140, For girls aged 5–14 it was also anxiety …
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/burden-of-disease/burden-disease-study-illness-death-2015
Page 141, And in the United States …
https://www.aappublications.org/news/2017/05/04/PASSuicide050417
Page 141, Lynn Lyons, an author and psychotherapist …
Page 142, Dr Jean Twenge has led seven large surveys …
Page 141, Meanwhile, a recent study from Wales …
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sitesplus/888/news/47341
Page 141, I think it’s interesting to note an Arizona …
Page 142, Sure enough, the place doesn’t have a childhood anxiety …
Page 142, … the Netherlands tops OECD countries …
https://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/rc11_eng.pdf
Page 142, My favourite: the university of Manchester has trigger warnings …
Page 145, Yet psychologists recently found that only a small percentage …
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/ptsd/what-is-ptsd
Page 149, This ‘processing’ consciously and deliberately …
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01916.x
Page 150, I wound up doing my plan B hike …
https://www.sarahwilson.com/2017/08/hiking-eating-guide-slovenia/
Page 154, I love New Yorker essayist Adam Gopnik’s …
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/01/heavens-gaits
Page 156, An Illinois study looked at housing projects …
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013916501333002
Page 157, I was also interested to learn that Frederick Law Olmsted …
https://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/olmsted-parks
Page 157, The government literally buses kids …
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/01/call-to-wild/
Page 160, Finding where you are helps you find yourself …
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150430124107.htm
Page 160, A team at the University of Wollongong …
https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1385&context=lhapapers
Page 161, Studies (albeit not overly robust ones) show that walking in nature …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/
Page 161, Other studies show negative ions in water …
https://www.healthline.com/health/negative-ions
Page 162, On average, the students thought of between …
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/april/walking-vs-sitting-042414.html
Page 162, Walking promotes new connections between brain cells …
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/7/3017.abstract
Page 162, Another study, published in the Proceedings …
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/28/8567.abstract
Page 163, In Finland, public health officials …
https://www.visitfinland.com/article/the-forest-a-finnish-favourite/
Page 163, And in the United States …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085576/
Page 170, The Australian sustainability professor Glenn Albrecht …
https://qz.com/1423202/a-philosopher-invented-a-word-for-the-psychic-pain-of-climate-change/
Page 171, Researchers are forming support groups online …
https://www.isthishowyoufeel.com/
Page 171, A climate scientist from Labrador in Canada …
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/12/how-scientists-are-coping-with-environmental-grief
Page 180, Of course, the idea was quickly …
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/21/self-care-radical-feminist-idea-mass-market
Page 182, Sister Joan is an American Benedictine nun …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictines
Page 182, ‘I do not want to go …
Page 185, If you’re into crystals …
https://newrepublic.com/article/148190/know-healing-crystals-come-from
Page 196, I drove up the back route to the Blue Mountains …
Page 199, According to a recent Gallup workplace poll …
https://news.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/212045/world-broken-workplace.aspx
Page 205, Parents suddenly cared less about it being unfair …
https://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/gneezy/pub/docs/fine.pdf
Page 212, Studies show that we tend to give …
Page 212, Americans who were regularly generous …
https://generosityresearch.nd.edu/publications/
Page 216, Global incomes are expected to triple …
https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/the-economy/assets/world-in-2050-february-2015.pdf
Page 217, There is enough food on the planet …
Source 1 https://www.worldhunger.org/world-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/
Source 2 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569
Page 226, Researchers at Harvard Business School coined …
Norton, Michael I., Daniel Mochon & Dan Ariely, ‘The IKEA Effect: When Labor Leads to Love’, Journal of Consumer Psychology vol. 22, no. 3 (July 2012): pp. 453–460
Page 226, His research shows tinkerers with sheds are happier …
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/22/case-working-hands-michael-crawford
Page 231, If wasted food was a country …
http://www.fao.org/3/a-bb144e.pdf
Page 231, Just one-third of the food we waste …
https://www.wfpusa.org/stories/8-facts-to-know-about-food-waste-and-hunger/
Page 234, One study compared footprints of ‘green’ consumers …
https://qz.com/920561/conscious-consumerism-is-a-lie-heres-a-better-way-to-help-save-the-world/
Page 235, It’s washing our clothes …
Page 235, Yes, let’s talk about my flight shame …
Page 236, From here things get very nuanced …
https://theicct.org/blogs/staff/planes-trains-and-automobiles-counting-carbon
Page 236, If you are in a car with fewer than three …
Page 237, When I need to drive …
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/ride-hailing-climate-risks
Page 237 … I catch the train …
https://calculator.toitu.co.nz/?calculator=travel
Page 237, … enabling you to, in Swedish again …
Page 244, We are inundated with the equivalent of 34 gigabytes …
https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/1566/743
Page 245, A lot of parents today …
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/
Page 247, The RAND Corporation, a centre-right …
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/09/trump-lies-endangering-american-democracy-rand/
Page 249, Interestingly, the Chinese government …
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-50315960
Page 250, She advises changing your lock screen …
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/business/cell-phone-addiction.html
Page 256, What psychologists call ‘disconfirming experiences’ …
https://www.psychalive.org/seeking-connection/
Page 256, One psychologist advised pausing …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/mental-health-coronavirus.html
Page 257, You can also start your own virtual book club …
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/356558495490776381/
Page 259, ‘Complex systems are weakened …
Nicolas Taleb, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Page 260, Psychologists call it ‘moral injury’ …
https://www.dav.org/veterans/resources/moral-injury/
Page 261, From Marcus Aurelius …
Page 268, Researchers have found that boredom …
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271991375_Does_Being_Bored_Make_Us_More_Creative
Page 268, Newton was purportedly just sitting …
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a5259/4343234/
Page 268, Subsequently, I read another study that showed innovation …
https://www.newsweek.com/creativity-crisis-74665
Page 270, A study has shown students whose assigned reading …
http://web.missouri.edu/~segerti/capstone/Oppenheimer.pdf
Page 275, A Queensland University of Technology study …
https://eprints.qut.edu.au/120614/
Page 275, … and at a time when a Foundation for Young Australians …
Page 275, American entrepreneurship has been declining …
https://www.aei.org/economics/has-america-really-lost-its-capitalist-mojo/
Page 281, Since the Japanese government …
Source 1 https://qz.com/804022/health-benefits-japanese-forest-bathing/
Source 2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6886167/
Page 281, One study showed that a mere 20 minute walk …
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00722/full
Page 281, Even just living close to parkland …
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-urban-trees-mental-health.html
Page 281, In addition to boosting immune system function …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2793341/
Page 281, … reducing blood pressure and heart rate …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5559777/
Page 281, … also affect mood, stress, anxiety …
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893257/
Page 281, In 2015, a team of researchers in the United States, Canada …
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-is-a-tree-worth
Page 291, This was the summer of the hottest days on record …
http://climatecollege.unimelb.edu.au/recent-australian-droughts-may-be-worst-800-years
Page 297, By the early ’90s it had morphed …
https://preserve.lehigh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=cas-lehighreview-vol-13
Page 298, Then Greta protested her country’s climate policies …
Page 298, A tiny Dutch NGO sued …
https://www.urgenda.nl/en/themas/climate-case/
Page 299, The parrhesiastes is someone …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrhesia
Page 303, Yet 1200 people went to jail …
Page 304, She said to me in an interview …
Page 307, As one New Yorker article asked as the US healthcare system …
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington
Page 308, And needing Taiwan to supply …
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/13/taiwan-coronavirus-pandemic-mask-soft-power-diplomacy/
Page 316, ‘System justification’ theorists show situations …
https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2017/06/system-justification
Page 319, They ask ‘Do I have more …
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/12/rich-people-happy-money/577231/
Page 319, George Packer reports in The Atlantic …
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/10/when-the-culture-war-comes-for-the-kids/596668/
Page 322, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney …
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/01/19/seamus-heaney-commencement/
Page 330, You might have seen that viral clip of analyst …
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-el-paso-eddie-glaude-deadline-video-1452776
Page 330, People who you are fighting …
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/obama-woke-cancel-culture.html
Page 334, Walmart, Nike, Nordstrom and Nudie Jeans …
https://www.thredup.com/resale?tswc_redir=true
Page 334, This new approach sees wonderfully deviant …
https://hbr.org/2020/02/why-de-growth-shouldnt-scare-businesses
Page 335, Governments worldwide released hundreds …
https://www.sarahwilson.com/2017/03/reference-list-for-first-we-make-the-beast-beautiful/
