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Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature
Sparing vs Sharing: The Great Debate Over How to Protect Nature What is the best way to save nature – to cordon off areas for parks and open space or to integrate conservation measures on working lands? Recent research makes a case for each of these approaches and has reignited a long-standing debate among scientists […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXII–Human Ecological Overshoot and the Noble Savage
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXXII Chichen Itza, Mexico (1986). Photo by author. Human Ecological Overshoot and the Noble Savage Wanted to share yet another online discussion that arose in response to a comment link (see below) posted on my Contemplation regarding electric vehicles (see: Blog Medium) within one of the Facebook Groups I posted it to (Prepping […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI–Infinite Growth, Finite Planet; What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI October 9, 2020 Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Infinite Growth, Finite Planet; What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Tyee commentary…(https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/09/Australian-Invasion-Big-Coal-Plans-Alberta/) _____ It’s truly unfortunate that our society pursues such self-evidently egregious exploits on our environment. You can’t continue to pollute your backyard without eventually destroying the complex ecological systems that […]
How Science Caused Climate Collapse
How Science Caused Climate Collapse Editor’s note: Science, touted to be objective, is far from so. As Lewis Mumford explains and Derrick writes extensively in Myth of Human Supremacy, any tool cannot be separated from the overall social structure under which it was created and operates. Likewise, science, as a way of thought, was created […]
Approaching peak phosphorus
Approaching peak phosphorus Any long-term solution to the projected decline in phosphate supply must involve improving phosphorus use efficiency in crop plants. In times of rising food prices and global food insecurity it is important to remember the basic needs for productive and efficient agriculture. One of these needs is the use of fertilizer. While […]
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis
Deforestation and world population sustainability: a quantitative analysis Abstract In this paper we afford a quantitative analysis of the sustainability of current world population growth in relation to the parallel deforestation process adopting a statistical point of view. We consider a simplified model based on a stochastic growth process driven by a continuous time random […]
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too.
I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too. Editor’s note: Luddism is often dismissed as “backwardness,” but it is actually a more advanced, considered, and wise position on technology. To be a Luddite is to stand with workers and the natural world against the death march of technology. This essay is a general introduction to the […]
Bumblebee Has Officially Been Added To The Ever-Growing List Of Endangered Species
Bumblebee Has Officially Been Added To The Ever-Growing List Of Endangered Species The bumblebee has been officially added to the list of endangered species along with the gray wolf, grizzly bear, the northern spotted owl, and about 700 other extinct animal species. According to National Geographic: The rusty-patched bumblebee (Bombus affinis), once a common sight, […]
Omicron on the rise: Pandemic as a life lesson for the human species
Omicron on the rise: Pandemic as a life lesson for the human species If we think of a disease as something that is sending us a message that we need to incorporate into our individual and collective lives, we get a much different view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. So far, our attempts at integrating […]
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns Developed democracies proliferated over the past two centuries during an unprecedented era of economic growth, which may be ending. Macroeconomic forecasts predict slowing growth throughout the twenty-first century for structural reasons such as ageing populations, shifts from goods to services, slowing innovation, and debt. Long-run effects of COVID-19 […]
Nature is a jazz band, not a machine
Nature is a jazz band, not a machine We treat it so at our peril From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature has deep roots in Western thought, all the way to Descartes and Hobbs, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences, argues […]
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene Abstract The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The steering arms of society including embedded financial, legal, political, and governance systems must be radically realigned and […]
