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Category Archives: GCD: Global climate disruption
Bank of England: stop funding the climate crisis!
tl;dr: Here are the links to the petitions by Positive Money, 350.org and SumOfUs; please pick just one and add your name before 24Feb2021. These three organisations are running the same petition; current signature counts as I write this are … Continue reading
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
What’s the true motive behind the president’s web of lies?
Today, 08Dec2020, marks the ‘Deadline of Resolving Election Disputes’ in US Federal law. All state recounts and court contests over the US presidential election results must be completed by today. Last Friday, 04Dec2020, Politico reported that The T**** campaign struck … 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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An open letter to all billionaires, everywhere
Dear Sir or Madam, In August 2020, Jeff Bezos became the richest man on the planet. Not only that, but he became the first person ever to exceed a personal wealth of US$200 billion (and that during a pandemic, too, … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Core thought, GCD: Global climate disruption, People, Phlyarology
Tagged Annuit Coeptis, billionaires, egocentric bias, Jeff Bezos, luck, success
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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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How to solve all the world’s problems
We’ve never been here before. As I think the majority of us all aware, our world is facing a series of global crises, which include (but are not limited to): climate change the unremitting attack on the world’s rainforests the … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Core thought, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged crisis, global, government
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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
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