Worried about debt, defaults and deficits? Save up your concern for the real problem, writes Glen Barry. The systematic destruction Earth's natural ecosystems for short-term profit is the 'bubble' that underlies economic growth - and if allowed to continue its bursting will leave the Earth in a state of social, economic and ecological collapse.
Biosphere collapse: the biggest economic bubble ever Glen Barry | 14th September 2015 Comment Ecology Economy Society Forests Oceans Climate Change clearcut-cut.jpg Worried about debt, defaults and …
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.
… Charles Eisenstein | 15th May 2015 Comment Economics Religion Oceans … science says that nothing is beyond measure; economics that nothing is beyond price. … of several books, most recently 'Sacred Economics' and 'The More Beautiful World our …
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.
… Oceans Fishing Commons UK Iceland Politics Economics scottish-lobster-cut.jpg Fishing … Policy from the London School of Economics. Her research interests are in … society and food production, environmental economics, research theory, economic and …
As the Arctic warms and its ice melts, growing numbers freight ships are reaping big savings from the 'Arctic short cut'. But this is creating a huge risk of invasive species spreading in ballast water and on hulls - disrupting both Arctic and temperate ecosystems.
The Arctic shipping boom - a bonanza for invasive exotic species Natasha Geiling Smithsonian | 27th June 2014 News Oceans Transport Natural World Ecology redkingcrab-cut.jpg As the Arctic warms and …
The Bering Sea is America's biggest fishery - but factory trawlers are ripping the guts out of the ecosystem, writes Jeffrey St.Clair, as they have already devastated fishing communities. Mix in nuclear bomb test fallout - an unlikely savior?
… So Long It Looked Like Green to Me on the economics and politics driving the looting of …
The Maldives, a vast republic of scattered islands in the Indian Ocean, has worked hard to make its fisheries among the world's most sustainable, writes Tony Juniper. But now the EU has slapped a 20% levy on its fish exports due to human rights concerns - a move that mainly hits poor fisherfolk innocent of any wrongdoing.
Human rights vs sustainability? EU must not attack Maldives 'green' fishery Tony Juniper | 27th November 2014 Comment Maldives Oceans Fishing Human Rights maldives-pole-and-line-cut.jpg The Maldives, …
Incorporating the ocean into visions of an environmentally stable future would first require a change in our ocean imaginary.
Blue imaginaries for Green New Deals Jessica Lehman Elizabeth Johnson | 10th September 2021 | Comment Perspectives On A Global Green New Deal Oceans Environmental Justice maritime_organisation.jpg …
This World Fisheries Day, a new report shows how the 'rights-based approach' to fisheries governance is in fact a mechanism for depriving indigenous and subsistence fisherfolk of their traditional waters, write Astrid Alexandersen, Sif Juhl & Jonathan Munk Nielsen, and transferring them to corporations and economic elites. It must be replaced with a 'human rights approach'.
… most fundamental assumptions in neoclassical economics: the establishment of clear property …
Mexico's tourist resort of Cancún has just lost one of its greatest natural riches, writes Miguel Rivas: 57 hectares of species rich mangrove forest, bulldozed in a massive overnight attack by property developers in league with local officials. But people power can still win the battle and see the Tajamar mangroves restored.
Cancún's mangroves are destroyed. But hope grows again! Miguel Rivas Greenpeace Mexico | 17th February 2016 Comment Mexico Oceans Forests Development Tourism Law Protest …
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.
… November 2014 Comment Oceans Fishing Ecology Economics ocean-sharks-cut.jpg In 2003 nations …
Fish from the high seas are too valuable to be eaten, as they lessen climate change through the carbon they carry down to the ocean depths. The carbon benefits are worth $150 billion every year - almost ten times the value of high seas fish landings.
Stop fishing the high seas, say scientists, for climate and ecology Climate News Network | 21st June 2014 News Oceans Fishing Carbon Climate Change Food new_fish-cut.jpg How long before this is all …
Wave power has a huge part to play in supplying the US with clean, renewable electricity, writes Shalinee Kishore. But to achieve its full potential, we must harness not just the energy of waves, but their predictability - and so so ensure the smooth integration of wave power into the electricity grid.
… signal processing, operations research, economics and wireless communications, which …
New research predicts that coastal regions face massive increases in damages from storm surge flooding over the 21st century - to $100 trillion annually, more than the world's entire economic product today.
Storm surges to cost $100 trillion a year as sea levels rise The Ecologist | 5th February 2014 News Oceans Climate Change Society storm-surge.png New research predicts that coastal regions face …
Tanya Cox explains how microplastic pollution, which at some marine sites occurs at a concentration higher than that of plankton, has become a macroscopic problem for the life that calls the ocean its home ...
Microplastic Soup: The State of Our Oceans Tanya Cox | 29th October 2013 Activism Microplastic Pollution Oceans albatrosscixk.jpg Plastic ingested by seabirds, like this Albatross chick, can lead to …
The oceans cover almost three-quarters of the planet’s surface, and represent the last great wilderness. Yet they are hugely impacted by human activities. Could privatisation - as proposed by the World Bank - be the answer?
Can we save the oceans by selling them? Chris Frid | 2nd November 2013 Comment Oceans Privatisation Fish seaforsale.jpg Would privatisation of the oceans give them hope for an ecologically healthier …
The UK Government has recently expanded its network of marine protected areas. But as Horatio Morpurgo discovers, the focus on protecting only specific 'features' from intensive fishing is leaving entire ecosystems at risk.
Taking the 'conservation' out of Marine Conservation Zones Horatio Morpurgo | 10th December 2013 News UK Fishing Food Natural Work Oceans lyme-bay-coral.png The UK Government has recently expanded …
Prices paid in the UK to solar and wind generators will change to favour offshore wind at the expense of the others. Jim Platt warns that the policy is doomed to failure - offshore wind is just too expensive, and likely to remain so.
Offshore wind is too expensive! Jim Platts | 7th December 2013 Comment Wind Renewables Energy Oceans offshore-wind-on-the-rocks.png Prices paid in the UK to solar and wind generators will change to …
Farming should not only sustain people with healthy food, writes Jigmi Y. Thinley. If humans are to survive on Earth, it must also revitalise nature and sustain vital planetary systems, instead of poisoning and over-exploiting them. And to do that farming must be organic.
Earth's vitality and the power of happiness Jigmi Y. Thinley | 19th June 2014 Activism Food Farming Oceans Climate Change Water broad-beans-cut.jpg Farming should not only sustain people with healthy …
The exclusion of fishers from the design of management plans for the vaquita, driven by conservation groups and implemented by the government, has led to polarized opinions and a large divide between communities and conservation agencies, writes Andrew Frederick Johnson. To save the vaquita, this needs to be replaced with a close collaboration.
Plan to save Mexico's vaquita porpoise won't work without fishers' engagement Andrew Frederick Johnson University of California San Diego | 1st November 2016 Comment Cetaceans Mexico Fishing Oceans …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns climate breakdown is having a significant impact on the oceans.
Climate breakdown will flood coastal towns Emily Beament | 25th September 2019 News Science & Systems Climate Breakdown Oceans Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change Ipcc United Nations Un …
The International Chamber of Shipping has committed the industry to legally binding emissions reductions under the Paris Agreement. Unlike the aviation industry, it will make no use of carbon 'offsets', but will reach its targets by increasing efficiency and moving to lower carbon fuels.
Shipping to go 'beyond Paris Agreement' without offsets Oliver Tickell | 8th November 2016 News Transport Shipping Climate Change Paris Agreement COP22 Un Oceans mol-graneur-cut.jpg The International …
As the IWC meeting begins today in Slovenia, the EU, its 28 member states and the United States, Australia, Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Mexico and Monaco, have expressed their opposition to Iceland's commercial whaling in a powerful diplomatic broadside.
EU leads diplomatic protest against Iceland's whaling The Ecologist | 16th September 2014 News Oceans Cetaceans Iceland EU Endangered Species fin whale landed at miã²sandur whaling …
There's strong public support for protecting marine wildlife, writes Horatio Morpurgo - so why aren't politicians championing the cause? Labour and Tories alike fear to challenge the big fishing companies that have come to believe they own Britain's offshore waters and seabed. Now it's up to use to prove they're wrong.
… on a few fragments. Everywhere else we'll do economics." In a Chancellor like George …
Small-scale fishing communities are key to any transition towards an ecologically and socially just food regime. But backed by the World Bank, powerful corporate interests are seizing their fish, seas and shores in the name of 'sustainability'. A revolution of the poor is needed to rebuild food sovereignty - and restore the oceans to the global commons.
Ocean grabbing: a new wave of 21st century enclosures Nick Buxton Carsten Pedersen Mads Christian Barbesgaard | 20th October 2014 News Oceans Food Fishing Corporations …