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The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025

September 17, 2025

The Bulletin: September 10-16, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… CLICK HERE If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Beyond Surplus: Rethinking How Civilizations Rose | Art Berman Why There Will Be No Energy Transition | by Eric Lee | Sep, 2025 | Medium Update: Why We Need Forests Renewables, carbon […]

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Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades”

January 4, 2023

Stanford Scientists Warn That Civilization as We Know It Will End in “Next Few Decades” “Humanity is very busily sitting on a limb that we’re sawing off.” On New Year’s Day, several Stanford scientists joined CBS‘ Scott Pelley on the program “60 Minutes” to discuss the global mass extinction crisis. Spoiler: no one had any good news. Tony Barnosky, a Stanford […]

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A life on our planet – review

October 26, 2020

A life on our planet – review I watched David Attenborough’s film A life on our planet the other evening. The first, and largest, part of the movie was very well made. Perhaps not much new, but very well presented and with excellent footage and narrative. Some images are very strong, even brutal, such as a lonely […]

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Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction

May 1, 2019

Bavarians Vote to Stop Extinction The world is in the throes of an extinction crisis unlike any throughout paleoclimate history, aka: the Sixth Mass Extinction, keeping in mind that the normal “background rate” for extinction is 1-to-5 species gone per year. But, what if it is five (5) every 24 hours? Answer: It’s a lot […]

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Bearing Witness to Extinction

December 28, 2018

Bearing Witness to Extinction “Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” – Carl Sagan “To argue that the current extinction event could be averted if people just cared more and were willing to make more sacrifices is not wrong, exactly; still, it misses the point. It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t […]

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Disappearing Acts

December 14, 2018

Disappearing Acts We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. Following this year’s shocking report that the planet has lost half its wildlife in the past 40 years, and the 2018 Remembrance Day for Lost Species, I wrote this piece on art and disappearance for Dark Mountain’s ‘The Vanishing’ section. Here we look […]

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Time for politicians to get real about the anthropocene

July 11, 2018

Time for politicians to get real about the anthropocene Hurricane Maria wreaks havoc in Puerto Rico. We are currently living through an era of global environmental collapse. Resources are being consumed at around 1.5 times the Earth’s ability to regenerate them. The continued reliance on carbon to power our economies means that we are highly […]

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Insects are disappearing. Why should we care? What can be done?

April 10, 2018

Insects are disappearing. Why should we care? What can be done? Insects are disappearing. Remember how in the ’90s when you went for a drive down a country lane on a summer evening, you’d end up with hundreds of splatters on the windscreen? No more does that happen. Your car is no longer like a […]

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Global Extinction Rates: Why Do Estimates Vary So Wildly?

August 18, 2015

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 […]

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How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions

August 16, 2015

How Humans Cause Mass Extinctions STANFORD – There is no doubt that Earth is undergoing the sixth mass extinction in its history – the first since the cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. According to one recent study, species are going extinct between ten and several thousand times faster than they […]

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