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The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases
The Mosquito Gap: Climate Change and Infectious Diseases OK, I admit it, I’m a freeloader. My neighbors asked if I’d go in on a mosquito control service last spring, and I turned them down. I was skeptical about whether the “eco-friendly” service would actually work. But I was mostly taken aback by the cost: $750 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’
Paul Ehrlich: ‘Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades’ Fifty years after the publication of his controversial book The Population Bomb, biologist Paul Ehrlich warns overpopulation and overconsumption are driving us over the edge The toxification of the planet with synthetic chemicals may be more dangerous to people and wildlife than climate change, […]
To Believe in Science, You Have to Know How It’s Done
To Believe in Science, You Have to Know How It’s Done I met a climate crisis denier today. It came out of nowhere. I was getting my camera repaired, and I was chatting with the repairman afterward. Just before I left, he dropped into our conversation that he didn’t believe in manmade climate change. After […]
“Environmental Extremism” or Necessary Response to Climate Emergency? Pipeline Shutdown Trials Pit Activists Against the Oil Industry
Still: Steve Liptay “ENVIRONMENTAL EXTREMISM” OR NECESSARY RESPONSE TO CLIMATE EMERGENCY? PIPELINE SHUTDOWN TRIALS PIT ACTIVISTS AGAINST THE OIL INDUSTRY AN ACTIVIST IN Montana was sentenced on Tuesday in a case that has become both a touchstone for industry-friendly legislators pushing to increase penalties for pipeline protest and a measure of the U.S. legal system’s […]
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield
Agricultural Innovation with John-Paul Maxfield John-Paul founded Waste Farmers with $9,000 and a belief that idealism and capitalism can coexist. Waste Farmers has evolved into an innovator respected by leaders in the global community for developing simple solutions to the complex problems of modern agriculture and food security. Mar 20, 2018 John-Paul Maxfield | Photo […]
New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions
New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions A new study suggests that holding the world to 1.5° Celsius of warming could prevent more than 150 million deaths. MORE THAN 150 MILLION DEATHS COULD BE PREVENTED BY TAKING RAPID CLIMATE ACTION. THIS WOULD BE LARGELY THROUGH A DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION. CREDIT: KEVIN […]
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice
Global warming to date could ‘obliterate’ a third of glacier ice The warming the world has already experienced could be enough to melt more than a third of the world’s glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland – regardless of current efforts to reduce emissions. That is the stark conclusion of a new study, which analyses the […]
Hope from chaos: could political upheaval lead to a new green epoch?
Hope from chaos: could political upheaval lead to a new green epoch? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) published its first major report28 years ago. This watershed document described the ominous implications of escalating emissions and the scale of the challenge in reversing this seemingly inexorable trend. Today, despite four further IPCC reports, 23 […]
What to Do at the End of the World? Interview with Climate Crisis Activist, Kevin Hester
What to Do at the End of the World? Interview with Climate Crisis Activist, Kevin Hester Kevin Hester is an environmental and anti-imperialist activist living in New Zealand who is raising the alarm about the dramatic, planetary-scale changes that are underway. He is expecting “the imminent collapse of the biosphere from the perfect storm of […]
The Manhattan Institute’s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed
The Manhattan Institute’s Joke of a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed A new report by Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research dismisses predictions of the impacts of a warming world with a simple solution: When climate change turns up the heat, people just need to turn on their air conditioners. From his analysis, “Overheated: How […]
Douglas Rushkoff: “we’ve disabled the cognitive and collaborative skills needed to address climate change”
Douglas Rushkoff: “we’ve disabled the cognitive and collaborative skills needed to address climate change” How does our relationship with digital technologies alter our relationship with the future, with the present, and with our imaginations? It’s a question we’ve reflected on in various podcasts and interviews in this series. One of the books that most influenced […]
Yes, Exxon Is Accusing Local Governments of Misleading Investors on Climate Change
Yes, Exxon Is Accusing Local Governments of Misleading Investors on Climate Change In January, ExxonMobil filed a legal petition seeking to depose more than a dozen city and county government officials in California, claiming that the municipal officials are defrauding investors by not fully disclosing the risks posed by climate change. You read that right. Exxon is […]
Up in Smoke
Up in Smoke Trees are dying at unprecedented rates. Can we rethink conservation before it’s too late? Each year, the Earth’s trees suck more than a hundred billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. That’s an impossibly huge number to consider, about 60 times the weight of all the humans currently on the planet. […]
