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- Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles
The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubbleExcerpt from "Earth Meanders" personal essay by Ecological Ecological 's President, Dr. Glen Barry: Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth's carrying capacity is the mother of all "bubbles". Within the current sub-prime mortgage and financial bubbles, and food an...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Planting Trees is the Easy Part
Done properly tree planting [search] is a hope filled expression of love for nature. But making a hole in the ground and dropping in the seedling is only the beginning. Nearly all planted trees require years of care including watering, weeding and even fencing to become established. Ill-conceived mass tree planting efforts are failing in Nigeria and worldwide [ark] because...
Source: - added 2 years ago - ALERT: Protest Australia's Continued Ancient Forest Logging in the Face of Abrupt Climate Change
Australia's new "climate friendly" government preaches global forest protection for climate benefits internationally, while continuing to industrially clear its own native primary forests in Tasmania and elsewhere, and this unseemly hypocrisy must endTAKE ACTION: Australia continues to industrially clear their last native ancient forests [search], even as their government promotes forest protectio...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Carbon Limit Underestimate as Climate Deaths Start
As climate change caused deaths surge [ark | moreark | search], the world's leading climate scientist is urging the European Union to urgently reconsider their atmospheric carbon dioxide target [ark] of 550 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide. Dr. James Hansen warns this target -- which informs global policies efforts -- must be slashed to 350 ppm [ark] if "humanity wishes to preserve a plan...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Forest Dwellers Want Say and Pay in Climate Talks
It has been a good week for the ecologically necessary concept of paying for rainforest protection [search] on the basis of biodiversity and climate benefits. Hundreds of indigenous leaders gathered in Brazil to build a consensus for wealthier countries compensating developing countries for conserving Amazon's tropical rainforests [ark]. There it was correctly noted "the challenge is to pay the n...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Are You Ready for Ecosystem Failure and Resource Scarcity?
It use to be that stockpiling food and supplies, owning land and canning garden produce, and otherwise preparing for likely societal upheaval caused by ecosystem failure [search], resource scarcity [search], economic turmoil [search] and other unknowns was seen as a bit kooky. But no longer as a "New Survivalism" emerges [ark] in response to the increasingly self-evident fact that the civilization...
Source: - added 2 years ago - World Bank's Conflict of Interest -- Keep Your Hands Off the Carbon Monies
The World Bank's climate change record [search] is very bad, its economic and environment work are rife with conflicts of interest, and thus it must not be entrusted with managing financial resources raised to address global climate change. It makes much better sense for the UNFCCC to be entrusted with the role of climate change international financier [search]. I am not alone in this assessment, ...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Climate Investment Crucial, Independent of Economic Downturn
The United States climate delegation negotiating a Kyoto successor in Bangkok has suggested the U.S. will be unable to provide funds to poor nations [ark | moreark] fighting global warming because of worsening economic conditions, but may be able to provide loans. So after decades of booming economies and growth in emissions in the rich countries, developing countries are now left in the lurch, ev...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Climate Policies that Harm Indigenous Peoples No Solution
Large-scale solutions to climate change [search] such as biofuel plantations, hydropower and even forest protection are threatening indigenous peoples [ark]. Sadly, a new UN report finds that frequently these large-scale climate policies threaten indigenous peoples [search] least responsible for, and most at risk from, global heating. Even as traditional societies flee rising seas, their lands are...
Source: - added 2 years ago - Rainforest Action Network Defends Support for Old-Growth Logging
PRESS RELEASERAN indicates industrial first time logging of centuries old trees in primeval forests the best that can be expected, censors further discussion on their web site, and faces renewed global call for members to cancel until withdraws from FSCApril 1, 2008By Ecological Internet, Inc.Dr. Glen Barry, +1 920 776 1075, glenbarry@ecointernet.orgAfter six months of evasions and personal recrim...
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