John S. Avery
Videnskabsmanden og fredsaktivisten John S. Avery var fra 1990 kontaktperson for Danmark i Pugwash-konferencerne. Han var med i den arbejdsgruppe der sammen med Sir Joseph Rotblat modtog Nobels Fredspris i 1995. I 2008 tog han initiativ til dannelsen af den Danske Pugwash-gruppe og var dens formand frem til sin død i januar 2024.
John S. Avery efterlader sig et omfattende politisk-aktivist forfatterskab der berører en lang række af de problemer som hænger snævert sammen med faren for krig: overbefolkning, miljøkriser, forurening, overforbrug af verdens natur-ressourcer, politisk økonomi og behovet for en ny etik. Den Danske Pugwash-gruppe arbejder med at skaffe overblik over forfatterskabet som inspiration for det fortsatte fredsarbejde, det sker blandt andet i studiekredsen.
En liste over forfatterskabet efter årstal:
| Year | Month | Date | Title | Pages | Category |
| 1977 | 10 | 31 | Progress, Poverty and Population | 170 | climate & environment |
| 2006 | 7 | 29 | The Long Term Future of Industrial Civilization | 220 | future society |
| 2007 | 7 | Energy, Resources, and the Long-Term Future | future society | ||
| 2008 | 6 | 22 | Old Times B/W | 209 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2008 | 11 | 27 | VIDENSKAB OG SAMFUND | 325 | textbook |
| 2009 | 6 | 18 | Calculus and Differential Equations | 135 | science history |
| 2009 | 1 | 27 | Strengthening the NPT and the IAEA | 76 | war & peace |
| 2010 | 11 | 1 | MEMORIES OF BEIRUT AND TEHRAN | 129 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2010 | 5 | 8 | ENERGY, CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY (proceedings) | 56 | climate & environment |
| 2010 | 11 | 27 | United Nations Day Student Prizes (ed. J. AVERY) | 61 | war & peace |
| 2011 | 10 | 2 | The Maharaja, bedtime stories | 84 | cultural history |
| 2011 | 10 | 1 | Industrial Civilization: Its Past and Long-Term Future | 304 | future society |
| 2011 | 11 | 27 | United Nations Day 2011; Student Peace PrizeS (ed. J. AVERY) | 46 | war & peace |
| 2011 | 11 | 4 | Conference on an Arctic NWFZ | 147 | war & peace |
| 2013 | 6 | 7 | COLLECTED ESSAYS | 313 | essays |
| 2013 | 8 | 2 | SCIENCE, RELIGION AND WAR | 142 | war & peace |
| 2014 | Scientific Publications | 14 | list of scientific papers | ||
| 2014 | 1 | 7 | United Nations Day Student Peace Prizes, 2013 (ed. J. AVERY) | 36 | war & peace |
| 2015 | 11 | 18 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 2 | 282 | essays |
| 2015 | 5 | 8 | SPACE-AGE SCIENCE AND STONE-AGE POLITICS | 310 | human evolution |
| 2015 | 11 | 15 | THE NEED FOR A NEW ECONOMIC SYSTEM | 282 | Political economy |
| 2016 | 12 | 2 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 3 | 305 | essays |
| 2016 | 9 | 14 | Science and Society | 435 | textbook |
| 2017 | 10 | 19 | MEMOIRES | 194 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2017 | 10 | 20 | SOME MEMOIRES | 144 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2017 | 11 | 20 | CLIMATE CHANGE, POPULATION GROWTH AND FAMINE | 270 | climate & environment |
| 2017 | 11 | 14 | THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY, TWO TIME SCALES | 295 | climate & environment |
| 2017 | 4 | 29 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 4 | 247 | essays |
| 2017 | 12 | 1 | ETHICS AND EVOLUTION | 249 | ethics & education |
| 2017 | 10 | 27 | LANGUAGES AND CLASSIFICATION | 202 | popular science |
| 2017 | 11 | 19 | NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AN ABSOLUTE EVIL | 304 | war & peace |
| 2017 | 6 | CRISIS 21, Civilization’s Crisis in the 21st Century | 336 | crisis of civilisation | |
| 2017 | 8 | 21 | WE NEED THEIR VOICES TODAY! | 150 | cultural history |
| 2018 | 7 | 21 | POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT | 355 | climate & environment |
| 2018 | 11 | 19 | A WORLD FEDERATION | 418 | future society |
| 2018 | 2 | 13 | WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? | 509 | human evolution |
| 2018 | 10 | 22 | SEARCHING FOR TRUTH | 450 | idiology |
| 2018 | 3 | 14 | THE DEVIL’S DYNAMO | 444 | crisis of civilisation |
| 2018 | 5 | 7 | THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION | 489 | future society |
| 2019 | 3 | 24 | WE NEED AN ECOLOGICAL REVOLUTION | 425 | climate & environment |
| 2019 | 6 | 15 | LIVES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT | 298 | cultural history |
| 2019 | 11 | 29 | OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE | 283 | future society |
| 2019 | 2 | 18 | SAVING THE FUTURE | 396 | future society |
| 2019 | 10 | 10 | THE PASSIONS OF MANKIND | 351 | human nature |
| 2019 | 5 | 10 | MONEY, MEDIA, AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS | 222 | Political economy |
| 2019 | 11 | 10 | LIVES IN CHEMISTRY | 255 | science history |
| 2019 | 9 | 28 | LIVES IN MEDICINE | 313 | science history |
| 2019 | 7 | 16 | LIVES IN PHYSICS | 203 | science history |
| 2019 | 9 | 12 | LIVES IN ECOLOGY | 350 | science history |
| 2019 | 6 | 29 | LIVES IN ECONOMICS | 348 | science history |
| 2019 | 3 | 30 | UNITED NATIONS DAY, 2012 (ed. J. AVERY) | 42 | war & peace |
| 2019 | 8 | 12 | FASCISM, THEN AND NOW | 260 | idiology |
| 2019 | 11 | 16 | FIGHTING FOR AMERICA’S SOUL | 323 | cultural history |
| 2019 | 12 | 15 | TERRORISM: A FALSE THREAT | 315 | idiology |
| 2020 | 9 | 5 | REMEMBERING THE 1960’S | 189 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2020 | 1 | 26 | CLIMATE CHANGE MEANS LIFESTYLE CHANGE | 302 | climate & environment |
| 2020 | 11 | 27 | HUMAN SOCIETY AND THE BIOSPHERE | 504 | climate & environment |
| 2020 | 9 | 19 | THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACT OF MILITARISM | 432 | climate & environment |
| 2020 | 9 | 24 | OUR WORLD IS BURNING | 441 | climate & environment |
| 2020 | 8 | 31 | LIVES IN EXPLORATION | 201 | cultural history |
| 2020 | 3 | 5 | LIVES IN PAINTING | 218 | cultural history |
| 2020 | 3 | 25 | LIVES IN POETRY | 235 | cultural history |
| 2020 | 2 | 20 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 5 | 309 | essays |
| 2020 | 2 | 20 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME V | 309 | essays |
| 2020 | 12 | 5 | ETHICS FOR THE FUTURE | 440 | ethics & education |
| 2020 | 5 | 22 | LIVES IN EDUCATION | 327 | ethics & education |
| 2020 | 7 | 13 | HUMAN NATURE | 518 | human nature |
| 2020 | 12 | 13 | ADAM SMITH’S INVISIBLE HAND IS AT OUR THROATS | 511 | Political economy |
| 2020 | 12 | 23 | MADMEN AND ECONOMISTS | 470 | Political economy |
| 2020 | 6 | 25 | MALTHUS REVISITED | 472 | Political economy |
| 2020 | 3 | 14 | A COVID-19 VACCINE (…) | 44 | popular science |
| 2020 | 8 | 22 | SOME ASPECTS OF QUANTUM THEORY | 402 | popular science |
| 2020 | 10 | 26 | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN | 191 | popular science |
| 2020 | 1 | 2 | LIVES IN ASTRONOMY | 185 | science history |
| 2020 | 1 | 19 | LIVES IN ENGINEERING | 407 | science history |
| 2020 | 11 | 6 | A HISTORY OF THE EARTH | 674 | human evolution |
| 2020 | 5 | 31 | BENEFITS OF EQUALITY | 452 | Political economy |
| 2020 | 3 | 11 | LINKED DANGERS TO CIVILIZATION | 379 | climate & environment |
| 2020 | 4 | 13 | REBUILDING AFTER CORONA | 362 | popular science |
| 2020 | 10 | 12 | YE ARE MANY, THEY ARE FEW! | 366 | idiology |
| 2021 | 5 | 1 | 67 YEARS IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT | 553 | biographies & memoirs |
| 2021 | 12 | 26 | HUMANITY’S MASSIVE FOOTPRINT ON THE FACE OF NATURE | 557 | climate & environment |
| 2021 | 10 | 14 | WE NEED IMMEDIATE AND DRASTIC CLIMATE ACTION | 473 | climate & environment |
| 2021 | 9 | 29 | LIVES IN THE 19TH CENTURY | 307 | cultural history |
| 2021 | 11 | 13 | LIVES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD | 200 | cultural history |
| 2021 | 8 | 29 | LIVES OF SOME GREAT NOVELISTS | 251 | cultural history |
| 2021 | 12 | 15 | LIVES IN THE 17TH CENTURY | 163 | cultural history |
| 2021 | 10 | 25 | LIVES IN THE 18TH CENTURY | 241 | cultural history |
| 2021 | 8 | 10 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 6 | 158 | essays |
| 2021 | 8 | 10 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME VI | 158 | essays |
| 2021 | 11 | 17 | TASKS FOR THE FUTURE | 407 | future society |
| 2021 | 11 | 5 | MONEY AND POLITICS | 291 | Political economy |
| 2021 | 11 | 25 | INFORMATION THEORY AND EVOLUTION_3rdEdition | popular science | |
| 2021 | 9 | 6 | LIVES IN BIOLOGY | 333 | science history |
| 2021 | 2 | 15 | LIVES IN MATHEMATICS | 535 | science history |
| 2021 | 6 | 22 | WHY WAR? | 359 | war & peace |
| 2021 | 6 | 12 | A CRITICAL DECADE | 361 | crisis of civilisation |
| 2021 | 1 | 2 | OUR SUICIDAL WAR AGAINST NATURE | 423 | climate & environment |
| 2021 | 5 | 23 | THE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENTISTS | 352 | ethics & education |
| 2021 | 3 | 25 | THE WORLD AS IT IS AND THE WORLD AS IT COULD BE | 395 | future society |
| 2021 | 4 | 22 | WATER | 277 | popular science |
| 2021 | 9 | 11 | WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? | 388 | crisis of civilisation |
| 2022 | 9 | 20 | STEPS TOWARDS AVOIDING A CLIMATE CATASTROPHE | 337 | climate & environment |
| 2022 | 1 | 26 | WARNINGS FROM THE POLES | 155 | climate & environment |
| 2022 | 4 | 26 | LIVES IN PREHISTORY | 207 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 | LIVES IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 441 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 3 | 14 | LIVES IN THE MIDDLE AGES | 206 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 2 | 14 | LIVES IN THE RENAISSANCE | 269 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 12 | 20 | LIVES OF CLASSICAL COMPOSERS | 178 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 6 | 16 | LIVES OF SOME GREAT DRAMATISTS | 182 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 10 | 19 | LIVES OF SOME GREAT FILM DIRECTORS | 206 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 11 | 23 | LIVES OF SOME GREAT PHILOSOPHERS | 157 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 12 | 28 | TRYING TO PREDICT THE FUTURE | 416 | future society |
| 2022 | 5 | 11 | HOMO SAPIENS? | 413 | human nature |
| 2022 | 11 | 4 | WE ARE DEMANDING TOO MUCH | 375 | human nature |
| 2022 | 2 | 22 | CORPORATIONS VERSUS DEMOCRACY | 236 | Political economy |
| 2022 | 7 | 31 | SACRIFICING THE EARTH FOR THE ECONOMY | 318 | Political economy |
| 2022 | 8 | 22 | LIVES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | 233 | science history |
| 2022 | 4 | 2 | ELIMINATING THE CAUSES OF WAR | 454 | war & peace |
| 2022 | 7 | 5 | SELLING WEAPONS, SELLING WAR | 301 | war & peace |
| 2022 | 8 | 9 | FAMINE, DISEASE AND WAR | 352 | war & peace |
| 2022 | 10 | 26 | AGAINST NATIONALISM | 359 | idiology |
| 2022 | 12 | 7 | IRAN, PAST AND PRESENT | 146 | cultural history |
| 2022 | 9 | 8 | REFORMING THE UNITED NATIONS | 254 | future society |
| 2023 | 1 | 25 | LIVES IN ACTING | 187 | cultural history |
| 2023 | 6 | 22 | COLLECTED ESSAYS, Part 7 | 195 | essays |
| 2023 | 6 | 28 | LIVES OF SOME GREAT ETHICAL TEACHERS | 169 | ethics & education |
| 2023 | 7 | 23 | LITERACY | 180 | popular science |
| 2023 | 2 | 8 | OUR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SOCIETY | 293 | future society |
