Climate Change
Heatwaves and Climate Disruption in Africa and Beyond
By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. April marked the 11th consecutive month of record global heat, and countries around the world are breaking heat records. The unprecedented temperatures are taking a toll on people (and nature), making daily life a challenge for many. This is especially true in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since the start of 2024, there
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Recent Posts
- Heatwaves and Climate Disruption in Africa and Beyond
- The Anthropocene: We’re In It, Like It or Not
- Women Hold the Keys to a Thriving World
- Will This be the Year for Rights of Nature?
- Crossing the Rubicon? Planetary Boundaries & Tipping Points
- We Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned
- Ecological Tipping Points: Eyes Wide Open
- ‘Without nature, we have nothing’ – Saving Ourselves by Saving Nature
- Did You Hear About the Latest Climate Report? Likely Not
- The Life-Affirming, Partnership Wisdom of Social Scientist, Riane Eisler
Featured
By Suzanne York. Are we living in a new climate epoch due to how human activities have affected the planet itself? A number of scientists think so, and have been saying for more than a decade, that Earth is now in the Anthropocene epoch. But it is a contentious issue, and last month, the highest
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By Suzanne York, Transition Earth. We inhabitants of planet Earth face a dizzying array of challenges, from climate change to plastic waste to pandemics. Our species has such a tremendous impact on the planet that many scientists believe we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction and that the name of our epoch
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By Suzanne York. The impacts that the humans have had – and are having – on the planet are undeniable. From diverting major river systems to massive monoculture plantations to removing mountaintops, we are a species to be reckoned with, no doubt about it. But Nature is paying a high price for our achievements, and
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By Geoffrey Holland, writer for Transition Earth. Existential means consequential, on a global scale. By various estimates, there are ten massive threats looming over all of humanity. In concert, these threats pack more than enough punch to destroy civilization on Earth. ***** Humanity faces an existential crisis consisting of ten, interconnected, mega-threats all bearing down
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By Suzanne York. For most people, having a job is critical beyond just income and a way out of poverty. Being employed elevates feelings of self-worth and a sense of having a purpose, of being valued and giving something back to one’s community. Too many people don’t get a chance to do so, especially women
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Other Resources
Will This be the Year for Rights of Nature? By Suzanne York. The coming years might be a wild ride. 2023 was the warmest year on record, and this year could be even hotter. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history, and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating. Human activities are impacting the world to such an extent that our
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Environment/Sustainability
We Can’t Say We Weren’t Warned By Suzanne York. Given all that is happening in the world right now, it seems a good time to revisit the Scientists Warning to Humanity. First issued in 1992, it cautioned that “a great change in our stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is required, if vast human misery is to be
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Family Planning
Celebrating the Impact of ‘Mr. Condom’ By Suzanne York. A global conference on reproductive health and rights is perhaps appropriately taking place in a city chock full of red-light districts and sex tourism. There is clearly a great need for family planning, access to reproductive health services and empowerment of sex workers here in Thailand’s ‘sin city’ of Pattaya. The
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Energy and Carbon Emissions
The Power of Profit on a Stressed Planet By Suzanne York. The planet is in an environmental crisis, yet money and power run the show above all else. Nowhere is that more clear than in the money made by the fossil fuel industry. Five major companies made $55 billion in their last quarter, with Exxon alone making $17.9 billion in net income. That
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Youth Rights
Football and the Power to Strengthen Reproductive Rights By Joshua Mirondo, Transition Earth. Young people are diverse and so are their needs, therefore to get their attention, one needs to be considerate. In a community where reproductive health is often called immoral, it takes a lot of work to break these barriers. Many interventions have been made to ensure that young people have
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Economics and GDP
A choice between national happiness – and global misery by Julian Cribb, AM FRSA FTSE. With 30,000 wildfires blazing from one end of the Planet to the other on any single day, melting icecaps and glaciers, dying coral reefs, polluted oceans, lakes and rivers, vanishing wildlife and forests and growing scarcity of water and soil, the outcome for humanity is already plain to see.
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Water Issues
From ‘Day Zero’ to ‘Spaceship Earth’ – Confronting Global Water Scarcity By Suzanne York. ‘Day Zero’ – it’s a term so applicable to our times of environmental overreach. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it came into vogue a couple of years ago when Cape Town, South Africa, was facing a water crisis of fairly epic proportions. Day Zero was the city’s term for the
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