The 21st Century Crisis Of Civilization
This is a reading list, not an article. I cannot repeat myself endlessly! Quality over quantity. Excellent discussion here in the video below, but the discussion has a glaring avoidance…
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"A Globe-Spanning Murder-Suicide" I Guess That Sums It Up.
If you’re planning on being around for another two or three decades you’ll be witness to a world like you’ve never known it. What’s in store for you is a…
Worried About Mass Extinction? Kill Your Lawn
A UN report released today reveals that 1 million species a threatened with extinction thanks to human actions (as in YOU!). The most effective thing we can do is vote…
I’m Glad This Week is About Over
This has been an unusually stressful week on the climate/environment front. Don’t worry, it’ll be back at full bore on Monday morning but at least there’s the weekend (I hope)…
Dying On the Edges
Neoliberalism is not conducive to our health or to our survival. Neoliberalism has brought us to a place where we have to choose to either step back or accept the…
It’s Just a Sense, a Feeling.
If there’s one thing we need to get much better at it’s learning to deal with the unexpected. It’s a huge understatement to note that, on so many fronts, we’re…
Capturing Animals in 3D for the Future
We are witnessing one of the largest extinction events in history because people deny that climate change is happening. Regardless of the deniers and the death of entire species we…
New ‘Tipping Point’ Model Could Help Predict Species Extinction
Species may be more adaptive to environmental changes than we thought, but small shifts can still be enough to cause extinctions. Snowshoe hares are facing increasing challenges as snow patterns…
Think of It as the "Noah’s Ark" of Climate Change
What would Noah do? WWND?Let’s pretend there was a Noah and he built an ark within which he accommodated species, two by two, so that life on Earth would not…
The human legacy—one of the world’s six greatest catastrophes
I was watching with interest the other night Jon Stewart’s interview of Elizabeth Kolbert, author of a new book, The Sixth Great Extinction. There have been five great extinction events…
We were hell on other species before we were even us
Homo sapiens has been driving other species into extinction for a very long time. We are familiar with more recent events on our own continent with the annihilation of species…
This Earth Day, Let’s Focus On Saving Humans
It’s a snowy and cold Earth Day morning in northwestern Ontario. On this Earth Day, Joe Romm over at Think Progress muses about renaming Earth Day – after all, it’s…
The Asteroid of Doom
Coming soon to a planet near you. Filed under: art, digital, drawing Tagged: asteroid, Doom, extinction, fear
Scientists: Catastrophic Tipping Point Looming
The evidence continues to pile up: humanity’s uncontrolled appetite for slashing, burning, and polluting is rapidly pushing the earth’s ecosystem to a tipping point that will have disastrous consequences for…