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Aug 21st, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. Talk about timing. Earth Overshoot Day, the date when humanity’s demands upon nature exceeds what Earth’s natural systems can renew in a given year, comes as California endures a wildfire hell. Overshoot Day, however, is falling later than in past years, on August 22nd, due to the other hell the world is enduring, that
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Tags: alternative economies, corporations, Earth Overshoot Day, nature needs half, overconsumption, Population Growth, rights of nature
Jul 2nd, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. As I sit here isolated from the pandemic at home, I’ve been thinking a lot about the bigger picture. The world we know has been set back on its keister by a global-scale force of nature. It wasn’t done to us. We ourselves are responsible for its unleashing.
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Tags: biodiversity, COVID-19, food security, Green New Deal, planetary boundaries, Population Growth
Jun 12th, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. I’m always happy when consequential people make consequential remarks about stuff that matters. One of the most influential people on Earth, the revered naturalist Jane Goodall, has just delivered a consequential whopper. If you’re paying attention, you have to recognize that humanity is on a dead-end course. I’m
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Posted in Biodiversity/Conservation |
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Tags: equity, extinction, Jane Goodall, Population Growth
Jun 5th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. This is the year of upheaval and change and understanding that we are all in this together, this life on our little blue dot. If the current inhabitants of Planet Earth don’t get that humans are part of the web of life by now, we are all in big trouble. To help
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Tags: biodiversity loss, Family Planning, PHE, Population Growth, rewinding, rights of nature, sixth mass extinction, web of life, World Environment Day
May 14th, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. We could call it the “COVID-19 void” or some such name, the period when so many important issues, reports, conferences and more fell to the wayside due to the overwhelming need to deal with the novel coronavirus. One such report was released last month that didn’t seem to garner much attention, which
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Tags: Climate Change, Commission for the Human Future, extinction, Population Growth
Mar 2nd, 2020 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer. Recently, the great renaissance city of Venice, Italy flooded yet again. It is happening ever more frequently. Each time it happens, it seems to get worse. What is happening to Venice provides a foreboding glimpse of what will likely become a permanent condition in many of our Earth’s coastal cities
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Tags: Climate Change, extinction, gender, Green New Deal, media, methane, Population Growth
Jan 21st, 2020 |
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By Suzanne York. The new year kicked off with a lot of coverage of extinction, mostly due to the tragedy in Australia. Television news programs, newspapers and social media are awash in reports of the devastating impact of Australia’s raging fires on its enigmatic species. The images of koalas, kangaroos and wallabies burning are tragic
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Tags: biodiversity loss, Climate Change, Davos, global economy, Population Growth, UN
Nov 15th, 2019 |
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By Suzanne York. As New Delhi chokes from off-the-charts air pollution levels, parts of Australia, Brazil and California burn, and countries in Europe flood, a timely warning on climate change from some 11,000 scientists was released. The scientists’ alarm was first sounded 40 years ago and in most years since then. But too many people have
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Tags: economic growth, Family Planning, human rights, Population Growth, rights of nature
Sep 25th, 2019 |
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By Suzanne York, Transition Earth. Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York City this week. She’s gotten a lot of press and focused much attention on climate issues. Which is a good thing, given that the Northern Hemisphere, which holds 90 percent of the world’s population, had the
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Tags: Climate Change, economic growth, extinction, Population Growth, sixth mass extinction
Sep 4th, 2019 |
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By Geoffrey Holland, guest writer for Transition Earth. Have you noticed? For the last several thousands of years, virtually every person historically remembered – good, bad, or ugly – is of the male gender. The record shows that for all that time, human life on Earth has been dominated by men. The Bible, the Koran,
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Tags: Climate Change, gender, male domination, planetary health, Population Growth, Riane Eisler, women's rights