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Tracking toward mass extinction
Tracking toward mass extinction Where “Two plus two equals five if the party says so” (George Orwell) and when drilling methane wells reduces global warming Having turned a blind eye to climate science, ignoring the evidence that extreme atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄) rise and ocean acidification have led to mass extinctions of species through time, humanity allows an […]
Our Energy “Needs” Are Driving a Mass Extinction
Our Energy “Needs” Are Driving a Mass Extinction Nuclear, fossil fuels, and renewable energy all cause major harm to ecosystems. Are we willing to accept these limits? Clouds of smoke from record wildfires rise above the Russian Arctic in summer 2010 — at that time, the hottest on record in the region. Photo by the […]
The Ideology of Human Supremacy
The Ideology of Human Supremacy The somber truth is that the vast bulk of nature’s staggering abundance has already disappeared. We live in a world characterized primarily by the relative silence and emptiness of its natural spaces. Underlying this devastation is the ideology of human supremacy—claiming innate superiority over nonhuman forms of life. But is […]
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future
Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future Preface. This is another “Scientists Warnings to Humanity” by many famous scientists, including Paul & Anne Erlich, John Harte, Peter Raven, and Mathis Wackernagel. Some of the challenges they point to are loss of biodiversity and consequent 6th mass extinction, human population growth which has led to […]
The Anthropocene
The Anthropocene
Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp
Worried about Earth’s future? Well, the outlook is worse than even scientists can grasp Anyone with even a passing interest in the global environment knows all is not well. But just how bad is the situation? Our new paper shows the outlook for life on Earth is more dire than is generally understood. The research published […]
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction
Universal Soldiers of Resistance to Fascist Thinking: Chomsky on Extinction “Earth abides.” – Toilet stall graffiti, West Bank I reckon, after all is said and said about the man, he’ll end up being considered the closest we modern political movement types have had to a real life Socrates. In more recent photos, Noam Chomsky, with […]
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions
Three Ways to Regenerate Bioregions Is it even possible for humanity to safeguard its future? Are we bound to a fate of extinction… a still-birth on the way to becoming a planetary species? Or might we evolve our diverse cultures toward the regeneration of landscapes and ecosystems — making it possible to continue existing? These are not […]
Your Plans For Revolution Don’t Work. Nothing We’ve Tried Works.
Your Plans For Revolution Don’t Work. Nothing We’ve Tried Works. All the old ideas for uprooting the status quo have failed. I point this out not to depress people, but to persuade them to stop twisting on locked doorknobs. The old ideas don’t work, so we need new ones. The political process has failed. Capitalism has […]
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal
Rebellious Scientists Issue Urgent Appeal Photo Source NASA ICE | CC BY 2.0 On October 31st a select group of UK scientists launched a Declaration of Rebellion against the UK government at the Houses of Parliament: “For criminal inaction in the face of climate change catastrophe and ecological collapse.” According to the scientists, now is […]
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh
Pollution, Invasive Aliens, & Mass Extinction: 20,000 Scientists ‘Warn Humanity’ The End Is Nigh A wave of nationalist/populist/anti-globalization, record high debt, nuclear doomsday clock at its highs, soaring financial leverage, and now trade wars. If the world did not have enough to worry about, 20,000 scientists have a few more reasons to believe ‘the end […]
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction
Ozone loss may have caused mass extinction Pinus mugo in the French Pyrenees. Image: By Sébastien D’ARCO, via Wikimedia Commons The loss of ozone may have caused the extinction many millions of years ago of most life on Earth, scientists believe. LONDON, 21 February, 2018 – Californian scientists have found a new way to account […]
Global Extinction Rates: Why Do Estimates Vary So Wildly?
Global Extinction Rates: Why Do Estimates Vary So Wildly? Is it 150 species a day or 24 a day or far less than that? Prominent scientists cite dramatically different numbers when estimating the rate at which species are going extinct. Why is that? Most ecologists believe that we are in the midst of the sixth mass […]
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them. “We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” […]
