by eab | Jan 19, 2019 | Blog |
“If we are to survive, we need to discern the difference between real and false hopes. We must eliminate the false hopes, which blind us to real possibilities, and bind us to unlivable situations.” — Derrick Jensen (So-called) Renewable energy is a...
by eab | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog |
The National Geographic February 2019 issue has a good story about lithium mining in Bolivia, with beautiful photographs by photojournalist Cédric Gerbehaye. As we scramble to try to electrify everything, and build the batteries we need to go with that electricity, we...
by eab | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog |
A Green New Deal to a Dead Planet 2018 has been a year of devastating reports about our ecological crises. There was the WWF’s Living Planet Report showing wildlife population declines of 60% globally since 1970; there was the OECD’s Global Material Resources Outlook...
by eab | Nov 27, 2018 | Blog |
Naturalist E.O. Wilson, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, author of Half-Earth, and creator of the Half-Earth Project, suggests we call the time in which we are living the Eremocine—the Age of Loneliness. A heartbreaking and beautiful story by...
by eab | Nov 15, 2018 | Blog |
The scientists agree; the California wildfires are made worse by record heat, drought, and low humidity. The death toll from the Camp Fire is now up to 63 and the list of missing people is up to 631. We think it’s bad now at 1C global warming; wait until we hit...
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