Bioenergy – A Disaster for Biodiversity, Health and Human Rights

Has the much‑discussed energy transition actually begun? So far, the answer is no. With only brief dips in crisis years, global fossil fuel use has risen every year since 1983. The newly released 2025 data confirm: humanity burned more of every major energy source in 2025 than ever before.

Are we doomed within the next fifty years, or will it take many centuries? The end-Permian “Great Dying” can help us put today’s extinction crisis into perspective. The unsettling parallels offer a possible roadmap if we learn to see geological history as a series of recurring patterns rather than distant, irrelevant events.

War has become a fever that world leaders cannot seem to break. As militarism spreads, its costs extend far beyond the battlefield, accelerating climate change while consuming the resources needed to confront it.