By Tom Murphy, Do the Math
Our outsized power as a species bestows on us a grave responsibility to prioritize nature above ourselves, which ironically is the best way to prioritize our own long term happiness on this marvel of a planet.
By Mark Kernan, Resilience.org
Just as genocide has become the norm in international law, it is time to make war on nature a prosecutable crime also.
By Aaron Karp, Resilience.org
The unprecedented drop in emissions resulting from the shutdown reinforces an idea over a decade old yet too infrequently acknowledged—the need for economic contraction in addressing the climate crisis.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Capitalism and Environmental Collapse is an exhaustive summary of today’s plethora of existential ecological threats, followed by an equally comprehensive discussion of what author Luiz Marques deems to be the core fallacies at their root.
By Corey J.A. Bradshaw, Daniel T. Blumstein, Paul R. Ehrlich, The Conversation
The research published today reviews more than 150 studies to produce a stark summary of the state of the natural world.
By Lisi Krall, Resilience.org
We should face reality: The other-than-human-world now has become almost entirely eclipsed by an unassailable “superorganism”—us, the human species—that continues to expand in evermore destructive fashion.
By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog
The first step: admit we are powerless over this addiction to the expansive energies of money and oil. And admit that life on earth has become unmanageable.
By Ian Angus, Climate and Capitalism
It may be helpful to outline some important recent developments in Anthropocene science in the two main fields involved: geology, and Earth System science.
By John Feffer, Foreign Policy In Focus
If the current pandemic is a test of the global emergency response system, the international community is flunking big time.
By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org
The two central tasks of every conscious individual are the rescue of spirituality and (re)connecting with respect for nature. Three sectors are playing a strategic role in this: environmentalists, women, and indigenous peoples.
By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee
After the random normlessness of this pandemic, I don’t want to go back to normal either. Or its idiotic child, “the new normal.” Sharon Wilson says we can leave normal for better this way: “Do all things with love, and be damn fierce about it.” Amen to that.
By Lorraine Boissoneault, The Revelator
The biggest challenge with all these cases is the lack of high-quality habitat in the first place. Neither Gordon nor Young were particularly optimistic about using animal soundscapes as a panacea for an enormous, multifaceted problem.