The acidification of the Earth's oceans, which climate scientists warn is a dangerous effect of continued carbon emissions, was behind a mass extinction event 66 million years ago, according to a new study. Small-shelled marine organisms survived the meteorite that struck the Earth and wiped out the dinosaurs, according to researchers at the GFZ geosciences... Continue Reading →
Dr. Thomas Goldsby, a professor of supply chain management at the University of Tennessee — Knoxville's Haslam College of Business, assigns his undergraduate student a "routine exercise" that frequently proves revelatory. Its purpose is to illustrate the complexity of the various trade routes that bring products from all over the world to consumers. The assignment... Continue Reading →
How climate change will disrupt supply chains: Experts say you should expect more shortages in the future
In San Francisco, we're finally starting to put away our masks. With 74% of the city's residents over 12 fully vaccinated, for the first time in more than a year we're enjoying walking, shopping, and eating out, our faces naked. So I was startled when my partner reminded me that we need to buy masks... Continue Reading →
Teetering on the existential edge, we have one more last, best chance for survival
An expert panel of top international and environmental lawyers have begun working this month on a legal definition of "ecocide" with the goal of making mass ecological damage an enforceable international crime on par with war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Assembled by the Stop Ecocide Foundation at the request of several Swedish parliamentarians,... Continue Reading →
International lawyers drafting plan to hold governments, corps accountable for ‘widespread destruction’ of ecosystems
'Ecological Ponzi scheme': Dire scientific assessment warns humanity in denial of looming 'collapse of civilization' In an example to the rest of the scientific community and an effort to wake up people—particularly policymakers—worldwide, 17 scientists penned a comprehensive assessment of the current state of the planet and what the future could hold due to biodiversity... Continue Reading →
…humanity in denial of looming ‘collapse of civilization’
Thousands of scientists warn of ‘untold human suffering’ as they declare climate emergency More than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries on Tuesday officially declared a climate emergency and warned of “untold human suffering” if immediate bold action is not taken to stop the warming of the globe. In a paper published in BioScience, researchers at... Continue Reading →
2 must read Climate Emergency articles from Alternet…
The greatest scam in history…
It’s a tale for all time. What might be the greatest scam in history or, at least, the one that threatens to take history down with it. Think of it as the climate-change scam that beat science, big time. Scientists have been seriously investigating the subject of human-made climate change since the late 1950s and... Continue Reading →
As the BBC notes, almost from the first moment that people realized that the human-caused climate crisis is real, there’s been an effort to determine how quickly action needed to be taken to stave off the worst outcomes. Could we wait 50 years? What about 30? What about 20? The answers are no, no, and no. Recent studies... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 