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What Humans Are Really Doing to Our Planet, in 19 Jaw-Dropping Images

The CNCL Team — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:14:47 +0000

Ahead of a series of major events later this year, The Foundation for Deep Ecology and the Population Media Center released a collection that illustrates the devastating effects of out-of-control growth and waste, and it's breathtaking.

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Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’

The CNCL Team — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:16:34 +0000

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.

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Earth Overshoot Day is July 29, the Earliest Ever

The CNCL Team — Mon, 29 Jul 2019 01:34:26 +0000

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.

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Climate Change: ‘We’ve Created a Civilisation Hell Bent on Destroying Itself – I’m Terrified’, Writes Earth Scientist

The CNCL Team — Thu, 23 May 2019 20:26:07 +0000

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.

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Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth

The CNCL Team — Fri, 12 Apr 2019 01:54:05 +0000

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."

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The Insect Apocalypse Is Coming

The CNCL Team — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 05:54:08 +0000

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.

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The (Other) Economic Madness of the Green New Deal

The CNCL Team — Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:54:08 +0000

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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