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The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2025
The Bulletin: August 27-September 2, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Experts Warn The Internet Will Go Down In A Big Way — And You’d Better Be Ready Bioregioning Is Our Future – resilience Forest Fires: The Disheartening Post of the Day […]
June 30, 2024 Readings
St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) 2024: Marking the Rise of the Global South Century and Decline of Western Economies Up to half a million NATO soldiers waiting to enter Ukraine It’s the End of the World As We Know It. The American-NATO Rush Toward Nuclear War with Russia. Scott Ritter – Global Research Our […]
June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone… First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework […]
Climate Change Causing 60% of Plants and Insects to Fall Out of Sync
Climate Change Causing 60% of Plants and Insects to Fall Out of Sync And so what? So maybe the climate is changing, I haven’t noticed it (but I’ve read about it). Plants grow in the spring, some flower, and winter comes in the temperate regions. On average, the beginning and ending a flowering plant’s lifecycle […]
Letting Your Grass Grow Wild Boosts Butterfly Numbers, UK Study Says
Letting Your Grass Grow Wild Boosts Butterfly Numbers, UK Study Says Butterflies benefit when grass grows long, researchers say. simonkr / iStock / Getty Images Plus Have you ever noticed that meadows of long grass seem to be teeming with butterflies, bumble bees, beetles, crickets and other insects? Meanwhile, short-cropped, bright green lawns appear devoid of critters in comparison. A six-year study of […]
The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer
The #1 Reason I Became A Doomer We’re not doomed because of climate change, resource depletion, or biodiversity loss. We’re doomed because human nature made those things inevitable. There are many reasons I became a doomer. Climate change is accelerating and governments aren’t taking it seriously. The sixth mass extinction event is well underway and most people don’t care. […]
The World Has Already Ended
The World Has Already Ended Due to climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss, the world in which civilization was born has already ended. Most people just don’t know it yet. “You say the ocean’s rising, Like I give a shit, You say the whole world’s ending, Honey, it already did.” – All Eyes On Me […]
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food
Insects are vanishing worldwide – now it’s making it harder to grow food Over the past 20 years a steady trickle of scientific papers has reported that there are fewer insects than there used to be. Both the combined weight (what scientists call biomass) and diversity of insect species have declined. Some studies were based […]
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet”
Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species. A boiler tower surrounded by mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert, Calif., on Aug. […]
Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals
Animal populations experience average decline of almost 70% since 1970, report reveals Huge scale of human-driven loss of species demands urgent action, say world’s leading scientists There was a 64% reduction of Australian sea lion pups between 1977 and 2019 due to hunting, entanglement in fishing gear or other marine debris and disease. Photograph: Brad Leue/Alamy Earth’s […]
Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction?
Genetic diversity in deer mice creates differences in coat color. NICOLE BEDFORD Are We In the Midst of a Silent Mass Extinction? A new modeling technique aims to help scientists and policymakers detect declines in genetic diversity based on habitat loss. Nearly one fifth of the genetic diversity of the planet’s most vulnerable species may […]
1,700+ Species Now at Risk From Human Action, Researchers Report
1,700+ Species Now at Risk From Human Action, Researchers Report There is only one Earth, but human growth is ensuring that it carries steadily more passengers. And that leaves less and less room for humanity’s companions on board the planet. The Nile lechwe is an antelope that lives in the swamps of Ethiopia and South […]
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes
More vegetables, less meat for all our sakes Spanish market: Vegetable-rich diets make for a healthier planet. Image: By ja ma on Unsplash Researchers are clear: the healthy diet for a healthy planet is more vegetables, less meat. What matters is the food that’s served, and the way it’s produced too. LONDON, 17 January, 2019 […]
What can we do?
What can we do? Rainbow over the Tapajós River in the Amazon © Todd Southgate / Greenpeace At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street until he glimpsed, “a serious disconnect between capitalism, growth, and […]
There’s No APP for That: Technology and Morality in the Age of Climate Change, Overpopulation, and Biodiversity Loss
THERE’S NO APP FOR THAT: TECHNOLOGY AND MORALITY IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, OVERPOPULATION, AND BIODIVERSITY LOSS Download Listen Embed It has become something of a mantra within the sustainability movement that innovations in technology will save the world and all of us in it, but we tend to forget that technology played a […]
