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“Which species are we sure we can survive without?” Revisited
“Which species are we sure we can survive without?” Revisited Two years ago I asked the question in the title of this piece. Now comes a wide-ranging study that suggests we are about to test that question in a major way. The study predicts that at the current rate of loss of insect species, 40 percent could be […]
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why
Insect Apocalypse: The Global Food Chain Is Experiencing A Major Extinction Event And Scientists Don’t Know Why Scientists are telling us that we have entered “the sixth major extinction” in the history of our planet. A brand new survey of 73 scientific reports that was just released has come to the conclusion that the total […]
What will it feel like to be left behind?
What will it feel like to be left behind? Chris Martenson’s recent article about collapse and the plummeting of biodiversity made me think about what it feels like to be left behind. Few people living in affluent countries or communities understand what this means. Americans closed their eyes to the plight of people in underdeveloped countries whose […]
End Times, Dead Ahead
End Times, Dead Ahead “It is time we consider the implications of it being too late to avert a global environmental catastrophe in the lifetimes of people alive today.” (Jem Bendell) In other words, the world is coming to an end. Of course it is… but when? Professor Jem Bendell’s brilliant seminal work, “Deep Adaptation: […]
Coffee Tree Extinction And The Caffeine Blues
Coffee Tree Extinction And The Caffeine Blues Is man’s second-best friend at risk of extinction? What lowers your risk of cardiovascular disease, boosts your brain cells and adds years to your life? Health experts will tell you that would be coffee. A morning cup of Joe not only gives many of us the jolt we […]
Confronting extinction
Confronting extinction Photo by Julia Hawkins (Flickr) With high-profile direct actions across London, the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement has captured media headlines, garnered influential supporters, and inspired a wave of participants across the globe. From blocking bridges to occupying government departments, XR has sounded alarm bells at the extinction before us, demanding a more radical […]
Ten 2018 Extinction Awards
Ten 2018 Extinction Awards Given the way people are transforming the earth into a place where the human species cannot survive, it is only right and just that we honor achievement in the race to extinction. Without further ado, here are the top eight Extinction Awards of 2018. 2018 Extinction Global Person of the Year […]
Ecocide as Creative Destruction
Ecocide as Creative Destruction According to the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), since 1970 60% of the mammals, birds, fish and reptiles on the planet have been driven to extinction. To the extent that the WWF has it right, climate change accounts for less than 10% of these losses (graph below). As important and logistically complex […]
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change? Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich. We either keep fossil fuels in the ground, or all of us are going to fry. So essentially posits still another new blockbuster study on climate […]
Disappearing Acts
Disappearing Acts We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. Following this year’s shocking report that the planet has lost half its wildlife in the past 40 years, and the 2018 Remembrance Day for Lost Species, I wrote this piece on art and disappearance for Dark Mountain’s ‘The Vanishing’ section. Here we look […]
Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode
Biological Annihilation: a Planet in Loss Mode If you’ve been paying attention to what’s happening to the nonhuman life forms with which we share this planet, you’ve likely heard the term “the Sixth Extinction.” If not, look it up. After all, a superb environmental reporter, Elizabeth Kolbert, has already gotten a Pulitzer Prize for writing […]
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species
Employment, Ecology, Extinction: French Students Take on the System to Save the Species Photo Source Manifeste étudiant pour un réveil écologique | CC BY 2.0 It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. – Upton Sinclair On my last day of teaching Environmental Studies, […]
The Extinction Rebellion–A Tipping Point for the Climate Emergency?
THE EXTINCTION REBELLION – A TIPPING POINT FOR THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY? The only rational response to the scientific evidence on climate change, is to declare a global emergency – to mobilise all of society to do whatever it takes to fix it. As the UN Secretary General Guterres recently stated: “We face a direct existential threat”. […]
