COP16: It’s Wild-West Capitalism Versus Life on Earth
All eyes should be on the salsa dancing capital of the world, Cali, Colombia, where representatives of 190 nations are joined by a broad swath of global civil society and…
Extinction of Species
The Sixth Mass Extinction and Climate Catastrophe
**We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.**—Native American Proverb Global warming or Climate Change is real. Current massive storms and hurricanes and…
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…
Global Pet Craze Is Becoming a Major Contributor to the Extinction Crisis
In 2019, an independent international science group—the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—announced that about 1 million species around the world are threatened with extinction. The number, based…
Little things mean a lot: The world’s microbiome under threat
Among the most visible species threatened with extinction are leopards, tigers, elephants, orangutans, gorillas and rhinoceroses. What may be of even greater consequence, however, are the millions of species we cannot…
Earth’s 6th Mass Extinction: Climate Crisis, Pollution, Depleting Resources Could Extinct 27% Of World Animal Life
The planet has entered the sixth mass extinction. Pollution, climate change and depleting resources could drive up to 27% of the world’s animal life to extinction, a new paper has…
Fetishising ‘The Number’: How Not To Govern Pandemics, Climate and Biodiversity
As the pandemic continues to dominate public politics around the world, a single number – the reproduction rate (R) – has become the focus of policy-making and public communication. Keeping…
Life’s survival is now in question
What we have already done to our planet by maintaining economic growth. We have and are over populating it, which is reducing our per capita of resources and our functionality.…
Laughing On Behalf Of The Giraffe And The Calf
"Unless we address overpopulation and development anew, neither gorillas nor giraffes will be able to co-exist with humans. And life will not be worth living for human beings." --…
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