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Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss
Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss Credit: David Barnas Credit: E.O Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life. Published by Liveright / W.W. Norton in March 2016 (ISBN 978-1-63149-082-8) Despite my somewhat snarky title, which is based on my assessment that Half-Earth is missing a key strategic component, E. […]
The Flavour of Good Farming
The Flavour of Good Farming Earlier this month, I was at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, where I was thrilled to be immersed in lively discussion about the power of sustainable food production systems to change the world for the better. Real farming holds the promise to restore lost biodiversity to the rural landscape, preserve […]
The Menacing Insect Omen
The Menacing Insect Omen The world is experiencing a massive loss of insects. In turn, this threatens ecosystems with utter total collapse, and, by way of direct association, loss of human civilization. Zap, it’s over! Insectageddon! Insect populations around the world are under massive attack and dropping like… well… like flies. The negative implications run […]
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse?
What Will It Really Take to Avoid Collapse? Fifteen thousand scientists have issued a dire warning to humanity about impending collapse but virtually no-one takes notice. Ultimately, our global systems, which are designed for perpetual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case outcome. For a moment, the most important news in the entire […]
Dying Ecosystems
Dying Ecosystems Photo by Richard Allaway | Public Domain Earth’s ecosystems support all life, though collapsed ecosystems would be like stepping outside of the international space station not wearing a space suit. Pop! Bam! Gone! A recent academic study about signals of ecosystem collapse throughout history fits the space suit analogy. Terrifying truth is exposed: […]
Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has “direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind.” Two days ago, C&C published a reply to a biology professor who shrugged off species extinction as unimportant because evolution will replace the lost organisms. This report, adapted from a Technical […]
What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse
What, Me Worry? Humans Are Blind to Imminent Environmental Collapse Accelerating biodiversity loss may turn out to be the sleeper issue of the century. Nature can’t compete with human activity overtaking the Earth. Photo by Ben Chapman, Creative Commons licensed. A curious thing about H. sapiens is that we are clever enough to document — […]
PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES AND THE RICHNESS OF DIVERSITY
PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES AND THE RICHNESS OF DIVERSITY THE WAY NATURE PROVIDES Imagine walking down a country road. On one side of the road, you see acres and acres of corn grown in neat rows. On the other side of the road stands an old-growth forest filled with towering trees and a thick underbrush. If you […]
Perennial Polycultures-The Biomass Belt: Fertility Without Manure
PERENNIAL POLYCULTURES – THE BIOMASS BELT: FERTILITY WITHOUT MANURE We’re extending the Polyculture Project to include experimental perennial polycultures on various plots of our newly acquired land. Our aim is to develop models that are low cost to establish and maintain, can produce healthy affordable nutritious food and will enhance biodiversity. We’ve been looking into fencing our […]
The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity?
The Global Oil Supply: Implications for Biodiversity? The following is an overview of my recent lecture to the Linnean Society of London, which is named in honour of Carl Linneus, who among many other accolades has been described as “The father of modern taxonomy”, and is also considered as one of the founders of modern ecology. It is the world’s […]
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth
Leaked Map Reveals Big Gas Is Setting Its Sights on the Most Biodiverse Place on Earth Part of a map from Pluspetrol, an exploration and production company, showing its interest in areas of Manú National Park in Peru’s Amazon. (Pluspetrol) A leaked map shows that a private energy corporation based in Argentina is eyeing Manú […]
Leaving Our Children Nothing
Leaving Our Children Nothing Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no biodiversity loss. That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in […]
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity.
Albert Einstein, Soil, Honey Bees and Biodiversity. Among the manifold quotes that are attributed to Albert Einstein, are variants along the lines of: “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, […]
