Reconnect With Earth
We need an ecological civilization before it’s too late. Jeremy Lent.
(To read this article on Jeremy Lent’s site) In the face of climate breakdown and ecological overshoot, alluring promises of “green growth” are no more than magical thinking. We need to restructure the fundamentals of our global cultural/economic system to cultivate an “ecological civilization”: one that prioritizes the health of living systems over short-term wealth…
Year Zero – All wild animals gone by 2026. Video.
The End of the Oceans: The world’s oceans and all marine life are on the brink of total collapse.
(The Monthly) Australia. James Bradley. August 2018. In June this year, scientists from the University of Tasmania and the University of Technology Sydney published research showing that over the past decade the biomass of large fish in Australian waters has declined by more than a third. The results may have jarred with government claims of…
dancing with orcas
Introduction: Dean Walker’s New Book (Fall 2018)
NEW BOOK: INTRODUCTION Dean Spillane-Walker July 2018 My frustration with these greedy, lying bastards is personal. Human-caused climate disruption is not a belief – it is one of the best-studied phenomena on Earth. Even a half-wit can understand this. As any father would, anyone threatening my family will by on the receiving end of…
“Albatross” Film Trailer
Understanding Ecological Grief, By Neville Ellis
Reposted from Alternet We are living in a time of extraordinary ecological loss. Not only are human actions destabilising the very conditions that sustain life, but it is also increasingly clear that we are pushing the Earth into an entirely new geological era, often described as the Anthropocene Research shows that people increasingly feel…
Life In The Anthropocene: Field Notes From The Santa Rosa Fires, By Dianne Monroe
Anthropocene: relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. The call came a little before 5 am, the morning of Monday, October 9. I stumbled toward the phone and retrieved the message. A neighbor’s voice, “Get…
Climate Change And The Human Mind: A Noted Psychiatrist Weighs In, With Robert Jay Lifton
Reposted from Yale Environment 360 Psychiatrist and historian Robert Jay Lifton has delved deep into the some of the darkest issues and most traumatic events of the 20th century with his research into the mindset of Nazi doctors, terrorism, the experiences of prisoners of war, and the aftermath of nuclear attack, which he chronicled in…
A Most Dangerous Assumption. Harvey Austin.
A Most Dangerous Assumption “…It was amazing how many people thought money could buy them exception from the laws of nature.” S.M. Stirling Dies in the Fire, 2004, p. 5. This is the grave mistake we make as a western culture, particularly as an American culture. We assume, because we have so much…