Warnings of dramatically escalating extinctions in Australia over the next two decades seem to be falling on deaf ears Gregory Andrews was Australia’s first threatened species commissioner, appointed in 2013 by the then incoming Coalition environment minister Greg Hunt. He recently returned to the country, after serving as high commissioner to Ghana, and was disheartened... Continue Reading →
In a recent conversation with my colleague Magnus L.H. Haslebo the Co-Founder of the Resistance Group Guerilla and the former Head of Communications for the Danish political party, The Alternative, it became clear that while sociopathic corporations’ greed is destroying the planet, it’s the corrupt politicians who are paving the way. This post was previously published in... Continue Reading →
(REPOST) Ethically Bankrupt Politicians Are Killing The Planet
“Canadian banks, insurance companies and asset managers have pumped millions into Russian-owned oil and gas companies that have flowed into the petrostate’s war chest,” wrote the National Observer in a recent article. Dependence on Fossil Fuels is Dangerous The world’s addiction to oil—our dependence on a fossil fuel system—is dangerous not just for the climate... Continue Reading →
Spending $1.8 Trillion A Year To Finance Our Own Extinction
Why do we exist? The Endangered Species Coalition’s mission is to stop the human-caused extinction of our nation’s at-risk species, to protect and restore their habitats, and to guide these fragile populations along the road to recovery. Continued at source...
Endangered Species Coalition
Democratic progressives introduce legislation to mandate action by Biden. 2/4/2020 - Special Alert Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, introduced legislation today that would mandate President Biden to declare a “climate emergency.” The bill compares the action needed on the climate crisis to the wartime mobilization... Continue Reading →
“It’s past time to declare a climate emergency.”
Michael Mann is no stranger to the war against climate science. A climatologist at Pennsylvania State University who is currently studying the impact of climate change on extreme weather events, Mann is best known for the “hockey stick graph,” which he and his colleagues published in a 1998 scientific paper. The data visualization—featured prominently in... Continue Reading →
Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’
2020 matched all global heating records. In 2021 carbon releases will reach a milestone. Soon we face a 2°C hotter future. LONDON, 12 January, 2021 − We Earthlings are now unmistakably on our way to the global climate we promised barely six years ago we’d never reach − a 2°C hotter future. Some time this... Continue Reading →
Earth is now committed to a 2°C hotter future
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining health and climate-disruption upheavals” that threaten human survival because of ignorance and inaction, according to an international group of scientists, who warn people still haven’t grasped the urgency of the biodiversity and climate crises. The 17 experts, including Prof Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University,... Continue Reading →
Top scientists warn of ‘ghastly future of mass extinction’ and climate disruption
A few months ago a group of scientists warned about the rise of “extinction denial,” an effort much like climate denial to mischaracterize the extinction crisis and suggest that human activity isn’t really having a damaging effect on ecosystems and the whole planet. That damaging effect is, in reality, impossible to deny. This past year... Continue Reading →
What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020…
humanity’s transformation of the ecological landscape
“Were in the middle of the largest mass extinction of species in sixty-five million years.”3 Dr. Will Tuttle told me during an interview. There have been five previous mass extinctions. Scientists believe that each of these five extinctions was caused by events such as large meteors and asteroids colliding with the earth, volcanic eruptions, or... Continue Reading →
The FUTURE OF EARTH – If these die out, we will too
From BBC | 'The FUTURE OF EARTH', by Science Focus If these die out, we will too BEES Insects have been pollinating flowers for 100 million years. About 70 percent of our agriculture today depends on them, and bee pollination of crops has been valued at $20bn in the US. But fertilizers, pesticides, habitat loss,... Continue Reading →
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