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The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025

The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism | Art Berman No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC […]

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Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op

Space Colonization Is A Capitalist Perception Management Op Listen to this article: The world’s two wealthiest people are fighting over the moon, which just says so much about where our species is at right now. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are in a dispute with NASA over whose private space exploration corporation will get the $2.9 billion […]

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21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law

21st century crimes against nature: ecocide as international law Just as genocide has become the norm in international law, it is time to make war on nature a prosecutable crime also. At the end of last year while the world was focused on the Corona virus a panel of experts in international law met to […]

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‘Factfulness’ may calm you down, but won’t change our ecocidal trajectory

‘Factfulness’ may calm you down, but won’t change our ecocidal trajectory Here and there people have been referring to author Hans Rosling’s idea of “factfulness” as an antidote to gloomy thinking about the trajectory of the human enterprise. Rosling writes: [T]he vast majority of the world’s population live somewhere in the middle of the income scale. Perhaps […]

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For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth

For the sake of life on Earth, we must put a limit on wealth It’s not just the megarich: increased spending power leads us all to inflict environmental damage. It’s time for a radical plan It is not quite true that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Musicians and novelists, for example, can become […]

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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 […]

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Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth

Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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