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Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’
by The CNCL Team | Aug 8, 2019 | Earth | 0
At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the urgency of taking action on climate change on behalf of all living things and the planet we share.
Read MoreEarth Overshoot Day is July 29, the Earliest Ever
by The CNCL Team | Jul 29, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
It’s official. We’ve exhausted Earth’s natural resources for the year… and it’s only July. According to the Global Footprint Network, July 29 is Earth Overshoot Day this year, the date that human demand for ecological resources and services has surpassed what the Earth can regenerate in a year.
Read MoreClimate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist
by The CNCL Team | May 24, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
To understand you are in a prison, you must first be able to see the bars. That this prison was created by humans over many generations doesn’t change the conclusion that we are currently tightly bound up within a system that could, if we do not act, lead to the impoverishment, and even death of billions of people.
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to Planet Earth
by The CNCL Team | Apr 12, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
Chris Hedges argues that “the human-induced change to the ecosystem, at least for many thousands of years, will probably make the biosphere inhospitable to most forms of life [without] halting our consumption of fossil fuels, converting to a plant-based diet and dismantling the animal agriculture industry as well as greening deserts and restoring rainforests.”
Read MoreThe Insect Apocalypse Is Coming
by The CNCL Team | Apr 7, 2019 | Earthlings, Human Society | 0
In a new report, scientists warn of a precipitous drop in the world’s insect population, a situation that could be just as catastrophic to humans as it is to insects. To avoid insect apocalypse, we need to reduce the size of our agricultural footprint.
Read MoreThe (Other) Economic Madness of the Green New Deal
by The CNCL Team | Apr 7, 2019 | Earth, Human Society | 0
A green new deal that creates new jobs and stimulates economic growth amounts to little more than a final blow-out binge before our once-and-done global economy comes crashing down around our ears. The only means of mitigating the environmental catastrophe that is gathering pace around us is to engage in a managed process of de-growth to create far smaller, localised and less consumptive economies than we have had for many decades.
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