Nature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
Canada's politicians are failing to act on the climate change emergency because of their own short-term political interests, according to Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
"History will look back on these politicians as inexplicably reckless, even criminal, in the way they're using climate crisis as a political football," May told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency | The Tyee A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer royal babies and more of our unfolding catastrophe.
Paper Warns Climate Change Could Wipe Out Civilization by 2050: CoastalStorm A new paper from an Australian think tank has put forward an ominous proposition which states that failure to address climate change could lead to civilization collapsing by 2050. Authored by experts at the Melbourne-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, the grim assessment argues that environmental upheaval represents a "near-to mid-term existential threat to human civilization" that, if ignored, might spell the end of our world as we know it. In an effort to convey the seriousness of the situation, the paper explores a veritable 'worst case scenario' which could unfold over the next thirty years.
Extinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement which uses nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse. Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018, and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam, Gail Bradbrook, Simon Bramwell, and other activ…
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Where you gonna run to?
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ReplyDeleteNature is in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday in the United Nations' first comprehensive report on biodiversity.
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Canada's politicians are failing to act on the climate change emergency because of their own short-term political interests, according to Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.
"History will look back on these politicians as inexplicably reckless, even criminal, in the way they're using climate crisis as a political football," May told The Current's Anna Maria Tremonti.
Twelve years to avoid catastrophe:
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"man now has the power to be a Destroyer of worlds"--Oppenheimer
ReplyDeleteMainstream media are not giving due weight to ecosystem crises:
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Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency | The Tyee
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CoastalStorm
A new paper from an Australian think tank has put forward an ominous proposition which states that failure to address climate change could lead to civilization collapsing by 2050. Authored by experts at the Melbourne-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, the grim assessment argues that environmental upheaval represents a "near-to mid-term existential threat to human civilization" that, if ignored, might spell the end of our world as we know it. In an effort to convey the seriousness of the situation, the paper explores a veritable 'worst case scenario' which could unfold over the next thirty years.
ReplyDeleteExtinction Rebellion (abbreviated as XR) is a socio-political movement which uses nonviolent resistance to protest against climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, and the risk of human extinction and ecological collapse.
Extinction Rebellion was established in the United Kingdom in May 2018 with about one hundred academics signing a call to action in support in October 2018, and launched at the end of October by Roger Hallam, Gail Bradbrook, Simon Bramwell, and other activ…
insect extinction is but a pre!ude to hu.man extinction
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
grassroots movement for the health of Mother Earth:
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We can do this!
Let's get it done!
After the Goldrush by Neil Young
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the story behind the song:
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" Our house is on fire"
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Too hot to survive
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abnormal record-breaking heat in India (48* C in Delhi) combined with air pollution and water crisis/shortages (depleted water reserves)
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Deforestation on the rise:
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Space tourism is the height of human hubris.
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