We learned today that birds in France are unable to migrate [ark] fast enough to keep up with their habitat. And the Arctic tundra is being invaded by trees [ark]. Humans too are animals with specific heat, moisture and food requirements. Where will we run as we lose our habitat?
Climate change -- and the host of attendant ecological crises associated with too many humans consuming too many resources at the expense of life giving ecosystems -- together will not be some minor irritant. Climate-mediated global ecological collapse [search] will be gut-wrenching biological murder as conditions where you live become unable to sustain...
An epic environmental disaster of unprecedented proportions is playing itself out in China. Yes, Europe and the United States are historically culpable for introducing and establishing capitalism without reference to sustaining natural capital as the foundation of economic life. Yet China has embraced resource intensive, ecosystem devastating capitalism [search] with a particular fervor. What is happening in terms of resource use, climate impact and junk consumer product production in China (much less the world) simply cannot be sustained. In a recent Earth Meanders personal essay -- The Depauperate World of 2049 -- I review the likely consequences of China being the first country to ecological implode, as well as a path to an equitable, just and sustainable future for all forever.
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Excerpt from recent personal Earth Meanders environmental essay: Hate to say it, but I told you so. Global ecological collapse is upon us and the human family is entering a Hobbesian struggle for survival of the Earth and all her species including humans. Even mainstream leaders tell us we have a decade to act before utter ecological ruin and despair is assured. If things are really so bad, where is the urgency? Will you fight for being... There is little hope when Greenpeace promotes ancient forest logging, when Al Gore states climate change can be addressed without economic sacrifice, when Leonardo DiCaprio assures us at the 11th Hour he only uses private jets when absolutely necessary. These are our leaders? Their vision lacks concrete actions adequate to achieve equitable and just...
I am saddened, shocked and dismayed at humanity's continued climate change denial [search]. How sure of cataclysmic climate change impacts must we be before we fundamentally change our way of being individually and socially? The UN reports that the world suffered an unprecedented string of extreme weather events in early 2007, the Goracle falsely suggests carbon emissions in China can be cut without economic sacrifice, and the poor are to bear even more hunger due to climate change. This is just today's news! How will ecological and social collapse be averted? What sort of actions are necessary and warranted? Who will lead?...
Here is an excerpt and link to the full text of my most recent Earth Meanders personal essay:
Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their physical environment. Sounds deceptively simple and non-threatening to the status quo, but I contend that growing ecological knowledge and re-understanding of humanity's place within the web of life is one of the most radical and potentially transformative notions ever. Awareness of humanity's utter dependence upon ecosystems and the biosphere, found in the relatively new discipline of modern ecology, has coincided with a period of unprecedented ecological destruction. Ecology may provide the only truthful answers regarding how to save the Earth and ourselves.
Ecology is a radical science that calls into question the...
Here is an excerpt and link to my recent personal Earth Meanders essay:
The Earth is entering a new phase in its human caused decline. We are witnessing the advance edge of bioregional and continental scale ecological collapse -- the final stage of environmental decline before global ecological collapse. For millennia human caused ecosystem loss and decline has destroyed plant communities and devastated landscapes, but generally the global matrix of terrestrial, oceanic, aquatic and atmospheric cycling of energy and nutrients continued relatively unabated. Until now, as the cumulative impact of poor land, water and ocean management, and a failing atmospheric system, is becoming widely evident. Humanity has become the dominant force of nature. We are witnessing the logical consequences of...