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Talking The Wrong Way About Carbon
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, […]
Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It
Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith and Max Wilbert (Monkfish Book Publishing Company, 2021). https://www.brightgreenlies.com By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) | Axis of Logic Axis of Logic exclusive Monday, Aug 30, 2021 “What do you know about this mendacity thing? Hell! I could write a book on it! Don’t you know that? I could write a book on […]
Study warns up to a quarter of Philippine vertebrates risk extinction
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay The Philippines, long recognized as one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots, could lose nearly a quarter of its unique land-dwelling vertebrate species unless urgent conservation action is taken, according to a new study. In a paper published in Science of The Total Environment, researchers assessed 1,294 species of amphibians, reptiles, […]
Filipino Communities Use Vast Variety of Endemic Plants
By Keith Anthony S. Fabro / Mongabay In the forested highlands of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines, Mingay Dakias knows exactly where to find medicine — not in modern health clinics but in the leaves, roots and vines that grow wild around his community. Taught by his father, who learned from the elders before […]
Greater Equality Is Better for the Planet
Editor’s note: Wealth inequality is higher in the Empire than in almost any other “developed” country and has risen for much of the past 60 years. The Black-white wealth gap reflects a society that has not, does not and will not afford equality of opportunity to all its citizens, a difference in power and opportunity that can be traced […]
Rich Nations Fuel Global Biodiversity Loss at ‘disproportionate’ Scale
Norway: Thousands of Youth Demonstrated against “Green Colonialism” On March 3, the largest civil disobedience action in recent Norwegian history came to an end. 16 Sami activists occupied the lobby of the Oil and Energy Department, and over 1,500 demonstrators attended in Oslo, including around 100 activists partaking in the occupations. Beginning as a […]
Our Humanity Dictates Including Palestine
Palestine is the central geopolitical and moral issue of our time. By Prof Jem Bendell / living with metacrisis and collapse Many of us are lucky that societal collapse is still only a concept. It can be our way of understanding the increasing difficulties we experience, or the increasing damage to the natural world, […]
The Philippines Is Going All-in On Transition Minerals
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” The island of Mindanao in the Philippines is ringed by beaches and covered in volcanoes and gardens of exotic orchids. Mindanao has been home to the Indigenous Lumad peoples for centuries, but beginning in 2026, the island will become the site […]
Deep Sea Mining Will Turn the Pacific Into a Graveyard
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Solomon Kahoʻohalahala steadied himself on the double-hulled voyaging canoe called Hōkūleʻa as a 15-foot swell rose and the vessel took off under the midday sun. He had been paddling since dawn along the south shore of Molokaʻi, and his arms […]