Sources
On this page, you will find the list of all the sources I used for the book If You Don’t. Some resources are used more directly, while others are used indirectly. Some resources helped to shape my thoughts. As written in the book: Ideas are stacked knowledge. I hope this book inspires you and others to build on it.
Books
Brief Answers to the Big Questions — Stephen Hawking | 9781473695993
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth — Henry Gee | 9781250276650
Talking to My Daughter — Yanis Varoufakis | 9781784705756
Mama’s Last Hug — Frans de Waal | 9780393357837
The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber, David Wengrow | 9780141991061
Debt The First 5000 Years — David Graeber | 9781612194196
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century — Erik Olin Wright | 9781788739559
Doughnut Economics — Kate Raworth | 9781847941381
Don’t Call Me Lady: The Journey of Lady Alice Seeley Harris — Judy Pollard Smith | 9781458212887
Fantoomgroei — Sander Heijne, Hendrik Noten | 9789047016670
The Lorax — Dr. Seuss | 9780007455935
A Plague on Both our Houses — Esther Ouwehand | 9789462556041
Fake History — Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse | 9789464103632
Het Recht van de Snelste — Thalia Verkade, Marco Te Brömmelstroet | 9789083000718
The Future is Degrowth — Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aarom Vansintjan | 9781839765841
Online sources
From the Past
NRC — Onderzoekers komen dichter bij de oorsprong van het leven op aarde
NewScientist — Sponzen maakten de weg vrij voor complexe dieren
Scientific American — The Origin of Oxygen in Earth’s Atmosphere
EBN Wat is CO2 (Koolstofdioxide)?
Wikipedia — Nitrogen
Wikipedia — Petroleum
NemoKennislink — Aardolie zou al 3.2 miljard jaar geleden uit organismen zijn ontstaan
Wikipedia — Human
Emergence Magazine — James Bridle, An Ecological Technology
The Washington Post — If plants, animals, machines are intelligent what does it mean us
NRC — Wilde natuur bestaat al 12000 jaar niet meer
NRC — Neanderthaler drukte zijn stempel op het landschap
NRC — De landbouwrevolutie is een mythe
Our World In Data — Population Growth
The New York Times — The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next?
Foodlog — Frans de Waal: ‘Waarom zou je jezelf niet als dier zien?’
Wikipedia — Haiti Independence Debt
The New York Times — Banksy’s Shredding Artwork Is Auctioned for $25.4 Million at Sotheby’s
The Guardian — The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins
Wikipedia — The Landlord’s Game
YouTube — Mindf*ck, Steeds dominanter en hebberiger tijdens een spelletje
To the Present
The MIT Press Reader — A Brief History of Consumer Culture
Khan Academy — 1920s consumption
SuperSummary — Land of Desire by William R. Leach
Wikipedia — Consumer Economy
Wikipedia — Homo Consumericus
Wikipedia — Shopping Cart
Wikipedia — Malcom McLean
De Correspondent — Containerbegrip
Martime Executive — A Brief History of the Shipping Container
The Economist — The Humble Hero
BBC — The Cornish beaches where Lego keeps washing up
Forbes — Three Reasons Oil Will Continue to Run the World
Science•org — Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections
Bloomberg — What Oil Companies Can Do to Cut the Demand for Oil
LinkedIn — The spirit of Shell will rise to the challenge
Ellen MacArthur Foundation — Ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
BBC — Davos 2020: People still want plastic bottles, says Coca-Cola
Wikipedia — Plastic Recycling
New Food Magazine — Microplastics found in breast milk
CNN — The plastic water bottle industry is booming
DW Documentary — Junk Food, sugar and additives – The dark side of the food industry
World Obesity Federation — Worldobesity.org
The Round Up — 17 Most Worrying Textile Waste Statistics & Facts
Al Jazeera — Chile’s desert dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers
National Geographic — Fast fashion goes to die in the world’s largest fog desert. The scale is breathtaking
European Commission — Circular economy for textiles
Wikipedia — Club of Rome
Wikipedia — The Limits to Growth
Earth Overshoot Day — overshootday.org
Footprint Network — footprintnetwork.org
IPCC — AR6 Synthesis Report
UN — 17 Goals to transform the World for Persons with Disabilities
UN — The 17 Goals
Le Monde — Interview Valérie Masson-Delmotte
The Guardian — ‘Overwhelming’ backing for strong climate action, UK study shows
NRC — De Nederlandse klimaataanpak richt zich op 2030. De echte opgave is 2050
Unesco — Patent DRP 37435
Rare Historical Photos — Colonial Belgian Congo: A Slave Father Gazing at His Daughter’s Severed Hand and Foot, 1904
Vox — The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking”
Factory — Factcheck: ‘Een auto staat 95 procent van de tijd stil’
99% Invisible — Paved Paradise
The American Prospect — Federal Highway Removal Program Raises Hopes in California
Reuters — Neighborhoods united: Highway removal gains steam in U.S. cities
Living Streets — Campaigning for Parklets
NRC — Studenten Design Academy: elke seconde telt voor het klimaat
Our World In Data — Wild mammals make up only a few percent of the world’s mammals
De Correspondent — Als wij minder vlees produceren, lijdt de wereld minder honger (en lossen we direct het stikstofprobleem op)
Nudge Global Impact Challenge — Turning good leaders into great changemakers
NRC — Vrije meningsuiting als afleiding
Civil Eats — Food Prices Are Still High. What Role Do Corporate Profits Play?
IOP Science – Comparative analysis of environmental impacts of agricultural production systems, agricultural input efficiency, and food choice
WWF report — Stepping Up: The continuing impact of EU consumption on nature
Nieuws Checkers — Soja voor veevoer is géén restproduct van soja voor humane consumpti
WWF — De productie van soja mag niet ten koste gaan van natuur
The Guardian — Vegan diet massively cuts environmental damage, study shows
Nature Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably
Montreal Gazette — An IGA in Montreal is growing its own vegetables on the roof
IGA Press Room — IGA Introduces the Largest Organic Supermarket Green Roof Garden in the Country
Wageningen University & Research — Sustainable and yet highly productive agriculture
Change Inc. — Honger naar Nutella: hoe meer lokale productie zorgt voor monocultuur
SAIA Agrobotics — saia-agrobotics.com
Pfizer News — How Genetically Related Are We to Bananas?
National Geographic — The Surprising Science Behind the World’s Most Popular Fruit
TIME — What We Can Learn From the Near-Death of the Banana
NRC — Bouwen aan een betere banaan, want met de bestaande gaat het beroerd
Alex Murrell — The Age of Average
Into the Future
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Bounded Rationality
Vox — Burning Man’s climate protesters have a point
The Guardian — Burning Man festival-goers trapped in desert as rain turns site to mud
Degrowth — Degrowth.info
De Correspondent — We hebben het beter dan ooit. Maar wie durft te dromen van een nog (veel) betere wereld?
De Correspondent — Zelfs optimisten zijn te pessimistisch: schone energie wordt spotgoedkoop
NRDC — Lithium Mining Is Leaving Chile’s Indigenous Communities High and Dry (Literally)
Nature — Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help
Hypebae — MSCHF’s Tiny Yet Mighty Microscopic Handbag Sells for $63,750 USD
DW Documentary — When is too much money just too much?
Wired — Millionaires Are Begging Governments to Tax Them More
Giving What We Can — Givingwhatwecan.org
Patriotic Millionaires — Patrioticmillionaires.org
Vox — Effective altruism’s most controversial idea
MIT Technology Review — This is how many people we’d have to send to Proxima Centauri to make sure someone actually arrives
Follow The Money — Politiek econoom Rosie Collington: ‘Consultancybureaus laten overheden en bedrijven groener overkomen dan ze zijn’
Medium @janak.vm — Egocentric to Eco-centric design
Dezeen — “It is not acceptable for designers to be unaware of the carbon impact of their creations”
FUTURES Podcast — Bioethics of Human & Animal Enhancement w/ Dr. Sarah Chan
Industrie Africa — Boye Doe
Right to Repair — There is life on Mars! Success stories of financial incentives to make repair affordable
Instagram @Video.Arka — What symbolizes sustainability and which materials do you think are more sustainable?
Those Vegan Cowboys — Thosevegancowboys.com
BBC — Why Singapore is the only place in the world selling lab-grown meat
Recompose — Recompose.life
Loop Biotech — loop-biotech.com
YouTube — TED: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
The University of Sydney — Fungi makes meal of hard to recycle plastic
14Trees — 14trees.com
WWF — Farmed Seaweed
Wageningen University & Research — Waterlinzen als nieuw, duurzaam eiwitgewas
Ap Verheggen — Apverheggen.nl
Wikipedia — Hygroelectricity
CascataChuva — cascatachuva.eu
Instagram @NowThis — An edible battery?
Science Alert — Scientists Create A Fully Rechargeable Battery, Made Entirely From Food
Yellow Stone Park — Wolves Bring Aspen Trees Back
The Guardian — ‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power
Medium @designforsustainability — Visionaries of Regenerative Design V: Victor Papanek (1927–1998)
Science Direct — Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative
VPRO Tegenlicht — Stem van de Natuur
VPRO Tegenlicht — Welkom in het Symbioceen
Generation Symbiocene — Generationsymbiocene.gr