Some things are beyond measure and beyond price, writes Charles Eisenstein. No amount of money is enough to compensate for the loss of the sacred or the essential - and to pretend that it is, is to capitulate to the very mentality that is driving the destruction of the biosphere.
… The oceans are not worth $24 trillion Charles … | 15th May 2015 Comment Economics Religion Oceans ocean-sunrise-cut.jpg Some things are beyond …
In 2003 nations pledged to place 20-30% of the world's oceans into no-take marine parks, writes Jessica Meeuwig - but more than ten years on, such areas now cover just 1% of ocean area. Now the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia, provides an opportunity to drive marine protection forward, and benefit both ecology and economy.
… Now is our chance to deliver on the 30% ocean protection target Jessica Meeuwig | 15th November 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing Ecology Economics ocean-sharks-cut.jpg In 2003 nations pledged …
Scientists are calling for urgent global action to address the escalating issue of marine plastic pollution, as a recent study identified deadly ocean hotspots.
… as a recent study identified deadly ocean hotspots. Scientists have revealed areas of the ocean where some of the world’s most … group of marine birds that play a key role in oceanic food webs. The breadth of their …
'The LSE would become a world leader and show other universities teaching economics is incomplete without teaching ecology.'
… destruction of rainforests, the pollution of oceans with enormous amount of plastic and the … fabulous forests, majestic mountains, awesome oceans and of course imaginative and creative … that it ends up in landfills, in rivers and oceans and in the atmosphere. We need to …
This week saw international delegates debate an extremely restrictive Global Plastics Treaty text that failed to set out legally binding targets and timeframes on plastic production and reduction.
… Harbour | 24th November 2023 | News Plastic Oceans United Nations Economics Tigertail … they steward over 30 per cent of our oceans and represent some 20 percent of UN …
The IPCC's 'synthesis report' makes a good scientific case on climate change and the need for action, writes Roger Jones. But its economics are weak, especially when it comes to the costs of inaction. And nowhere does it set out the core truth - that the alternative to swift, effective action is to create a hellish, dystopian world for our descendants to endure.
… hasn't warmed since 1998. The report says: "Ocean warming dominates the increase in energy … It is virtually certain that the upper ocean (0−700 m) warmed from 1971 to 2010. "The globally averaged combined land and ocean surface temperature data as calculated …
However much you think nature is worth, it's a lot more, writes Neil Nightingale. According to the BBC's 'Earth Index', published today in the world's financial press, water alone is worth as much as the entire global economy, and a single beaver's landscape and wetland management clocks in at $120,000 a year.
… should not come as a surprise. Our valuable oceans Corals were estimated at making an …
Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?
… to try and stem damage to forests, soils and oceans, and yet the destruction continues. Why … is invariably compromised. Similarly, in the oceans, loss of seagrass meadows, kelp and … of plastics pollution in rivers, lakes and oceans, and its impacts on Nature. The main …
The failure of the COP26 climate conference reminds us that capitalism is the driver of ecological breakdown. But what does that mean for environmental activists?
… whilst other succumbs to dangerous flooding. Ocean acidification threatens marine life and … Around 55 percent of all plastic waste in the oceans comes out of the Yangtze – the price …
The renewable energy revolution is in full swing, writes Jeremy Leggett, with costs falling to new lows, deployment of wind and solar surging to unprecedented highs, and confidence ebbing away from fossil fuels. But global warming is also accelerating, with global temperature records broken every month for a year. Will the energy transition happen in time to avert catastrophe?
… Energy Renewables Solar Wind Climate Change Oceans Finance Economics fort-mcmurray-cut.jpg … US, off Florida, is dissolving into the ocean in some areas. The acid doing the …
A UN panel similar to the one for climate change has been given the go-ahead by world leaders with an admission they had failed to heed scientific warnings about biodiversity loss
… about deoxygenated dead zones in the world’s oceans took too long to reach policy-makers. …
A second canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is planned for Nicaragua, writes Nathan Wood. But the gigantic project is raising growing fears due to a grossly unfair contract, glaring failures of process, close links to the Chinese government, and its enormous - but uncosted - ecological impacts.
… second canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is planned for Nicaragua, writes Nathan …
Fishing quotas were meant to conserve stocks and support fishing communities, writes Emma Cardwell. But they have achieved the reverse - rewarding the most rapacious fishing enterprises and leaving small scale fisherfolk with nothing.
… Emma Cardwell | 7th July 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing Commons UK Iceland Politics …
The alternatives to neoliberalism - including a new community type of agriculture and community-owned green energy, local currencies, peer-to-peer networks and a sharing economy - are already here and unfolding right now. All we need is a revolution writes NICK MEYNEN
… reached home turf with Reagan, crossed the ocean thanks to Margaret Thatcher and finally …
Almost 60 years since the world's first commercial nuclear power station began to deliver power to the UK's grid, the industry remains as far from being able to cover its costs as ever, writes Pete Dolack. But while unfunded liabilities increase year by year, governments are still willing to commit their taxpayers' billions to new nuclear plants with no hope of ever being viable.
… radioactive materials into the air, soil and ocean. There are no definitive statistics on …
According to classical economics Adam Smith's 'invisible' hand' of free markets produces the greatest good for us all, writes JP Sottile. But what happens when rip-roaring 'external costs' are left out of the equations? Wars, repression, pollution, resource destruction and climate change. And because that invisible hand is connected to Mother Nature, it's coming back to strike us.
… accounts for factory farming by disrupting oceanic food chains upon which humans depend. … forests and carbon-retaining power of the oceans . It's the 1/32 of the planet that is … the unparalleled 'ecosystem services' of the oceans, forests and other food webs that …
The True Cost Accounting in Food and Farming conference was remarkable - star speakers ... fine food, drink and music ... even an impromptu Panto performance. In short, writes Sharon Garfinkel, it was an inspiration to all who attended.
… to soils and water systems, let alone to the oceans, which are out of sight and out of …
How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
… as Arctic sea ice loss, shutdown of vital ocean currents, collapse of the Amazon, and … of immense fury across the Atlantic Ocean. According to Hansen, the last time … and West Antarctic ice sheets; release of ocean methane hydrates; release of carbon in …
We must urgently move from Petropolis and dependence on fossil fuels to Ecopolis supported by regenerative economies.
… soil, and factory trawlers sweeping the oceans. Mines and quarries scar landscapes in … are currently being absorbed by the world’s oceans, forests and soils. Faced with a global …
In his search for alternatives to consumerism and industrialism, Jules Pretty travelled around the world to find surviving nature-based cultures. In this extract from his book 'The Edge of Extinction', he tells of the Tuva people of the Siberian steppe - proud of their traditions and closeness to the land, but very much part of the modern world - strictly on their own terms.
… east to west to end again at the Pacific Ocean. I walked with local Māori people along …
Forty years ago workers at Lucas Aerospace created a detailed plan to transition out of the arms industry and into green, sustainable products and technologies, writes David King. it never happened, yet the Lucas Plan provides a blueprint for similar initiatives today to build a deep-rooted, broad-based movement for social, economic and ecological progress.
… braking systems, energy conservation, oceanics, and telechiric machines. Apart from …