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Category Archives: Biodiversity
Our Today is Forever, revisited
This heart-rending masterpiece of a video is a mash-up featuring the music of Queen (‘Who Wants to Live Forever?’). It was uploaded to YouTube over a decade ago (21May2010), yet in all that time it has garnered fewer than 50k … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Culture, Education, Environment, Health, Music
Tagged plastic, Plomomedia, pollution, Queen, Who wants to live forever?
3 Comments
Sign the petition to the UK government for more trees!
tl;dr The UK is hosting the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and has already enshrined a net zero carbon emissions target in law. Now is the time for the UK government to set a legally-binding tree planting target, in … Continue reading
We love the Earth
Posted in art, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Music
Tagged Lil Dicky
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Our way of life is killing us
It’s all about externalities. The price we pay for things rarely, if ever, reflects its true cost. Forests are vital for our survival – but that’s not stopping greedy supermarkets and fast food companies burning them down for profit. We … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Core thought, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Phlyarology
Tagged Amazon Watch, Greenpeace
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We’re fucked
If we knew an asteroid were to hit the Earth on a certain day and wipe us out, we would mobilize every scientist, bureaucrat, CEO and soldier planet-wide to deal with it. Well, an equivalent disaster is headed our way, … Continue reading
Banks found complicit in rainforest destruction
Since 2009, 19 banks — despite having policies on advancing human rights, sustainability, and climate change — have financed US$10 billion for approximately 155 million barrels of dirty crude destined for refineries in the United States. But they aren’t only … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Strategy, Water
Tagged Amazon, rainforest
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A special place in the universe
This twenty-five minute video clip has just turned my world upside down. In one of my earliest posts on this blog, way back in 2007, I marvelled at the splendour of the night sky, and concluded that with so very … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Education, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Phlyarology
Tagged astronomy, Earth, homo fatuus brutus, moon, sun
10 Comments
The rule of thirds versus the Pareto principle
In response to my post the other day bemoaning the various afflictions under which our global society labours (‘It is what it is‘), msjadeli commented: My mind theoretically would like to believe the change that is needed to save our … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Environment, Health, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged inequality, Justice, Pareto principle, rule of thirds
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It is what it is
When I look beyond my own complacency, what do I see? Hunger and starvation. Deprivation. Racism. Bigotry and hatred. Oppression. Strife of all kinds — including war. Injustices galore. Overpopulation. Pollution of the land, the seas and the sky. Avarice … Continue reading
Posted in art, balance, Biodiversity, Core thought, Environment
Tagged Change, Haiku, On the turning away, Pink Floyd
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People of the forest
25 orangutans will die today. Just like yesterday. And tomorrow. Palm oil deforestation is killing the last orangutans on our planet, and if we don’t act now, in just eight years there won’t be any left. Orangutans need trees to … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity
Tagged orangutans, palm oil, People of the forest
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