“What world have I brought my child into?” the new mom pleaded. “What can I do to make sure my baby isn’t brought up in a world that’s being destroyed?” It was 2019, and climate researcher Katharine Hayhoe was at a church breakfast in Fairbanks, Alaska, when a young woman tapped on her shoulder and... Continue Reading →
Climate crisis: Area of forest twice the size of UK cut down in just over a decade, WWF report reveals & ‘Nature is under siege’: Study finds insect population shrinking 1 to 2 percent each year & Unsure how to help reverse insect declines? Scientists suggest simple ways & Electric cars rise to record 54%... Continue Reading →
A few consolidated climate related articles of concern…
Planned Obsolescence Sucks. Here’s Why It Still Exists.
Why (and how) Planned Obsolescence and Capitalism make terrible products. Continued at source...
The World Needs You. Now.
NEW YORK, Jul 20 (IPS) - "We may all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now," Martin Luther King Jr once said. His timeless wisdom rings truer than ever today for the many challenges the world is facing. COVID-19, continued armed conflicts and forced displacement, climate-change induced disasters, deep divides... Continue Reading →
Greta Thunberg has called for action after NASA declared 2020 the hottest year on record. The 18-year-old environmental activist said the world is facing a 'climate emergency' and she called for people to 'be the change' and 'spread awareness'. Analysis by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York found that 2020 edged... Continue Reading →
Greta Thunberg Calls For Action After NASA Declare 2020 Hottest Year On Record
Why your carbon footprint is a scam by our changing climate
Why your carbon footprint is a scam, explained. Source
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
Fridays for Future, the youth-led global group inspired by Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, announced Wednesday that its next international day of climate strikes will occur on March 19 of this year with a demand for "immediate, concrete, and ambitious action" directed at world leaders who have in recent years talked seriously about the urgent need... Continue Reading →
Demanding Immediate Action Over ‘Empty Promises,’ Youth Climate Movement Announces Next Global Strikes
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
Never before have we had to deal with a problem that is this detrimental to society and lacks bipartisan support. The whole situation is a policy problem from hell, and in order to enact change, we need total support from pretty much everyone (the reason it’s really a problem). I could go on about the... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 