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Bold New Campaign Highlights How ‘Nature Can Save Us’ From Climate and Ecological Breakdown
Bold New Campaign Highlights How ‘Nature Can Save Us’ From Climate and Ecological Breakdown “The protection and restoration of these ecosystems can help to minimize a sixth great extinction, while enhancing local people’s resilience against climate disaster.” A new campaign launched Wednesday calls for “drawing carbon dioxide out of the air by protecting and restoring […]
The End of Growth
The End of Growth Either it ends, or we do. More and more, I hear that folks are feeling frustrated and betrayed, combined with a sense of loss and despair. I feel this way, too. As I’ve written recently, I observe this is due more than anything else to a widespread demoralization society is suffering […]
The Plight of Birds and the Hand of Man in the Sixth Great Extinction
The Plight of Birds and the Hand of Man in the Sixth Great Extinction Photo by Mark Gillow | CC BY 2.0 As birds become fewer, wildflowers vanish, butterflies disappear, and animals in the wild are threatened, extinction and a grim future haunts. How often did Rumi write about birdsong … there is a reason. […]
Nature’s Breaking Point
Nature’s Breaking Point Photo by Karl-Ludwig Poggemann | CC BY 2.0 Ever wonder how the classical philosophers/economists like Adam Smith and David Ricardo would view today’s credo of infinite economic growth, forever more, above and beyond yesteryear. Well, in a word, they would be horrified. Ricardo, similar to the father of capitalism Adam Smith, believed […]
Agriculture & Global Cooling
Agriculture & Global Cooling QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; Are you familiar with Professor Easterbrook of Western Washington University who agrees with you and is projecting a decline in temperatures for the next three decades? It seems that those who simply claim that it has been getting warmer live in a bubble of biased news. One even said to […]
Nations Won’t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report
Nations Won’t Reach Paris Climate Goal Without Protecting Wildlife and Nature, Warns Report A sweeping new report released today emphasizes just how intertwined the challenges of climate change and loss of biodiversity truly are. The Paris Climate Agreement and several other United Nations (UN) pacts “all depend on the health and vitality of our natural environment […]
New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies
New study questions impact of ending fossil fuel subsidies Ending the world’s fossil fuel subsidies would reduce global CO2 emissions by 0.5 to 2.2 gigatonnes (Gt) per year by 2030, a new study says. The research, published by Nature, concludes that the removal of subsidies would lead to bigger emissions reductions in oil and gas […]
What Does China’s “Ecological Civilization” Mean for Humanity’s Future?
What Does China’s “Ecological Civilization” Mean for Humanity’s Future? China’s leader, Xi Jinping, affirms an ecological vision that is in line with progressive environmental thought. Is it mere rhetoric or does it have a deeper resonance within Chinese culture? The answer may ultimately have a profound effect on humanity’s future. Imagine a newly elected President of […]
Inside the Dead Zone
Inside the Dead Zone It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed ‘language is the house of the truth of being.’ The problem at hand was conceiving the role of language in an experiential (phenomenological) sense that closed the distance between the Western inheritance […]
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica
Averting the apocalypse: lessons from Costa Rica Earlier this summer, a paper published in the journal Nature captured headlines with a rather bleak forecast. Our chances of keeping global warming below the 2C danger threshold are very, very small: only about 5%. The reason, according to the paper’s authors, is that the cuts we’re making […]
We Live in Revolutionary Times
We Live in Revolutionary Times Pluto takes 248 years to orbit the sun. The most recent, and perhaps most important, network challenge to hierarchy comes with the advent of virtual currencies and payment systems like Bitcoin. Since ancient times, states have reaped considerable benefits from monopolizing or at least regulating the money created within their […]
A Field Guide to Thoughtstoppers
A Field Guide to Thoughtstoppers It occurred to me a while back that one very simple issue is responsible for much of the crisis of our age. No question, that crisis has plenty of causes, some of them recent, some of them much less so; to get a clear understanding of the way that modern […]
Preparing for Floods, Droughts and Water Shortages by Working with, Rather than Against, Nature
Preparing for Floods, Droughts and Water Shortages by Working with, Rather than Against, Nature An almond farm in California’s Central Valley is flooded in the wintertime to replenish groundwater supplies while scientists study the effects on soils, tree health, and water quality. Photo by Joe Proudman/UC Davis [This piece is an excerpt from the first […]
On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us
On The Road To Extinction, Maybe It’s Not All About Us The devastating consequences of human superiority over nature. “We can’t prevent the suffering and dying of wild life, and the Earth herself, when confronted by the unleashed forces of fire and water, but we can include them in our assessment of the cost. We […]
Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work
Harvey: Fierce Climate Change at Work Photo by The National Guard | CC BY 2.0 Is Harvey a force of nature or something more? Clearly, Harvey is a natural disaster of monstrous proportions. Its destructiveness is the hottest topic on TV coast-to-coast and around the world. Still, cynics of climate change say natural disasters, like […]
