An article linking climate change to Earth’s solar orbit went viral last year, racking up 4.2million views on social media and widely shared on Facebook. It was the most-engaged with climate story in 2019, according to Brandwatch. There was just one problem. It wasn’t true. Facebook removed the article from Natural News, a far-right conspiracy... Continue Reading →
Why Climate Change Denial Still Exists In The U.S.
(CNBC - YouTube Link-Back Share) Despite overwhelming scientific evidence, some American politicians continue to deny that climate change exists, while others question the severity of its impact. But public opinion is shifting, and today even oil and gas companies publicly admit that climate change demands action. So why does climate denialism continue to influence U.S.... Continue Reading →
What scares the scientists?
If we do not make every effort to combat climate change, global temperatures could rise high enough to trigger events like the mass melting of Arctic permafrost, or huge wildfires in Amazonia. These would release more greenhouse gases, accelerating global warming. We know that such catastrophic climate change has happened in the distant past. To... Continue Reading →
Abandon Apathy and Be Moved to Action
(Wangari Muta Maathai reflecting on the words in the Earth Charter) […] So as to make these words meaningful, we need to reflect on them. For example, when we pick the word “just,” we want a just world. Can we think of all the injustices that we have on this planet, whether they are injustices... Continue Reading →
You cannot skip the step of facing reality…
(a little dated but an excellent point...) […] Jilly Edgar, 20, a New York University student and member of the Sunrise Movement, which advocates for Green New Deal policies, said she struggled to think of the future. That should be a time she said when "the world is becoming my own, and moving forward in... Continue Reading →
Megacity Innovations…
To build megacities that better meet people’s basic needs, offer new opportunities for young people, empower women, and foster sustainably is to build an urban way of life unlike anything we’ve yet seen. This megacity future is going to spawn a whole array of new possibilities, ones we can’t anticipate from our armchairs in the... Continue Reading →
Tick-Tock
The next layer of industrial agriculture is already being developed and field-tested. It incorporates artificially intelligent computers, autonomous robots, self-flying drones, and advanced genetic designs. All this “intelligence” is based on the “more is better” principle of squeezing ever more nutrient-void calories from our depleted soils. In other words, more “overproduction.” Before we as a... Continue Reading →
The United Nations chief has called on world leaders to declare states of “climate emergency” in their countries to spur action to avoid “catastrophic” global warming. Antonio Guterres’s comments on Saturday came during his opening statement to the Climate Ambition Summit, a virtual gathering aimed at building momentum for much steeper cuts in planet-warming emissions... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 