In 2015, Freddie went to the Sri Lankan jungle to build an internationally award-winning bamboo hotel, Wild Coast Lodge. Living in a local village for nearly three years, he saw how special bamboo was, with all the offcuts being taken home by the villagers to build fences and furniture. In 2016, Marc joined him on... Continue Reading →
This piece highlights the merits of the fossil fuel divestment approach. My next piece covers an alternative view, evaluating the advantages of engagement with fossil fuel companies. A decade ago, noted environmentalist Bill McKibben had a radical-sounding idea. To save the planet, we needed to “revoke the social license of the fossil fuel industry.” His... Continue Reading →
The Case For Fossil Fuel Divestment
Massive floods have been sweeping the globe lately. British Columbia flood of 2021, Pakistan flood of 2022, Hurricane Ian, New Zealand, Las Vegas, Kentucky, Yellowstone National Park flood, and floods in California are all recent examples of such tragic flooding. And many are blaming climate change. But at the same time, we’re also seeing record... Continue Reading →
This Is Why Worse Droughts Mean WAY Worse Floods
What you need to know about the Climate Emergency The science of climate change is well established: Climate change is real and human activities are the main cause. (IPCC) The concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere is directly linked to the average global temperature on Earth. (IPCC) The concentration has been rising steadily,... Continue Reading →
Facts about the climate emergency…
YouTube Intro: Welcome to our Public Arena during United Nations COP27. We Don’t Have Time and partners will be live from COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, but also from Stockholm, Nairobi and Washington DC. November 8th to November 17th, 2022. Full program and register for free: https://wedonthavetime.org/cop27 The UN climate conference COP27 has now officially... Continue Reading →
COP27 – Sharing an Email from ‘We Don’t Have Time’
Key Points The analysis comes ahead of next month's COP27 climate change summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The shadow of 2015's Paris Agreement will loom large over the talks in Egypt. "We are still nowhere near the scale and pace of emission reductions required to put us on track toward a 1.5 degrees Celsius world,"... Continue Reading →
Emissions reductions pledges ‘nowhere near’ what’s needed, UN says
Climate crisis report says ‘we are not winning in any sector’ as experts call for urgent action on fossil fuels . Meat consumption should be reduced to the equivalent of about two burgers a week in the developed world, and public transport expanded about six times faster than its current rate, if the world is... Continue Reading →
Cut meat consumption to two burgers a week to save planet, study suggests
CORVALLIS, Ore. – An international coalition of researchers says in a report published today that the Earth’s vital signs have worsened to the point that “humanity is unequivocally facing a climate emergency.” The report, “World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022,” published in the journal BioScience, notes that 16 of 35 planetary vital signs... Continue Reading →
Report by OSU, international scientists says Earth is ‘unequivocally’ in midst of climate emergency
There’s good news and bad news for forests. Over the last 10 years, satellite imagery and other remote sensing technologies have revolutionized our ability to monitor and understand the causes of forest loss. The bad news is that deforestation data spanning the last two decades reveals a persistent hemorrhaging of the world’s most valuable terrestrial... Continue Reading →
(Repost) Why are Tropical Forests Being Lost, and How to Protect Them
Biodiversity has been defined as one of nine planetary boundaries that help regulate the planet’s operating system. But humanity is crossing those boundaries, threatening life on Earth. The big question: Where precisely is the threshold of environmental change that biodiversity can withstand before it is destabilized and collapses planetwide? The planetary boundary for biodiversity loss... Continue Reading →
(Repost) Global biodiversity is in crisis, but how bad is it? It’s complicated
The upcoming midterm elections will not be about climate change. Half of registered voters agree climate is “important,” but the issue is still ranked below six others. However, for young people, climate is a major issue in this election cycle, despite its overall sixth ranking. Some conservatives would push back and reassert that climate is... Continue Reading →
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