Consumption is driving ecological collapse and rests on human exploitation. A new Encyclopaedia of Work would reveal the real costs of consumer 'goods'.
An Encyclopaedia of Work Sašo Miklič | 6th April 2021 | Comment Economics Labour Theory Of Value Workers Consumption is driving ecological collapse and rests on human exploitation. A new …
We need a new economy that supports humans as part of nature rather than profits and investments.
… we are all breathing the same air. All of humanity is breathing and sharing the same air. And even the life beyond humanity. The animals and plants. All life is … Growth Diversity is the key to a healthy humanity and thus a new paradigm and a new …
On the final day of the trial of Caroline Lucas and other anti-fracking protestors, we ask - what about human rights? Entirely neglected by the government in its desperate drive to frack, they ought to trump all other policy considerations.
Fracking - why are human rights being ignored? Damien Short Karen Hulme Steffen Böhm | 25th March 2014 Comment Fracking Law Fossil Fuels Water Pollution UK Politics balcombe-demo-2.png On the final …
The threat posed to nature and society by the massive expansion of industrial, fossil fuel economies was discussed by a generation of authors 60 years ago. What can they teach us today?
… How could an industrialising and urbanising humanity, powered by fossil fuels, safeguard … Update, published in 2004, observed that "humanity has largely squandered the past … theory and practices are clearly failing humanity. Resource depletion, pollution and …
A transformative, progressive political agenda focused on human wellbeing has morphed into a new form of behavioral management, writes William Davies. Happiness itself has been packaged, commoditised and put to the service of capital - and if you haven't got it, the Happy New World has no place for you.
Happy New World? Human capital and the corruption of happiness William Davies | 3rd August 2015 Comment Society Wellbeing Economics smiley-faces-cut.jpg A transformative, progressive political agenda …
Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?
… of modest Nature-focused ways of living, humanity has morphed into an urban-industrial … Lovelock was deeply concerned that humanity, whilst being part of the Gaian … in Israel investigates the impacts of modern humanity on the biosphere and the astonishing …
Can we initiate a global green recovery, embedding economics within sound ecological parameters?
… The global impacts of Covid-19 have left humanity reeling. This virtually invisible … form is threatening the very future of humanity and the natural world. The bulk of … Can technology to become a servant to humanity again, rather than our master? …
Covid-19 exposes the inherent fragility of our globally interconnected economic systems and the inequalities that they perpetuate.
… represents nature taking revenge on a rampant humanity. This kind of thinking is not a new. … a fossil-fuel addicted, climate changing humanity by making the earth uninhabitable for … researchers today think that it is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that …
The first ever ‘summit of the future’ will be staged by the United Nations next year. It might be our last chance.
… probably the greatest challenge ever faced by humanity. It is up to all of us to assure … causes of the existential crisis facing humanity? Themes Critically, the Maastricht … world, assuring a firm ecological base for humanity, as well as fairness in the conduct …
Now is the time to be bold, and to envisage a holistic, green recovery linking human wellbeing with the health of ecosystems.
… Find out more . The pandemic has left humanity reeling, causing an existential … demands are threatening the very future of humanity and the world’s living systems. Are …
Long after we go extinct the human presence on Earth will be marked by a geological stratum rich in plastic garbage, according to a new study. Long-lived plastics are already widespread over the ocean floor, and there's a lot more on its way. Forget the 'Anthropocene' - the human era should rightly be called the Plasticene.
Humans will be remembered for leaving a 'plastic planet' Oliver Tickell | 28th January 2016 News Geology Science Waste Pollution Oceans plastic-beach-cut.jpg Long after we go extinct the human …
David Nicholson-Lord explains why trying to discuss human population growth these days is like placing your head on a stand at a coconut shy
… Economics Politics Lifestyle Enviroment Humanity Biology Genetics Population Famine … for example, tells us not only that in 2001 humanity as a whole overshot the Earth’s …
Mark Goldring, Chief Executive of Oxfam GB, reports on growing inequality arising from the current economic model that benefits the privileged minority.
Extreme inequality across the globe spells disaster for millions.
… threatens the very notion that we are “One Humanity”. More unequal societies have been … is the most powerful equalising force that humanity has ever invented. Nurturing, … 50th anniversary event One Earth, One Humanity, One Future taking place at Worcester …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… technical development, under CDIAC's dataset, humanity has generated 383 billion tonnes of …
We must urgently move from Petropolis and dependence on fossil fuels to Ecopolis supported by regenerative economies.
… the year 2000 a child was born who turned humanity into a predominantly urban species … transport and trading systems connect humanity as never before, they are also … to rise considerably by 2030. But most of humanity still resides in settlements below …
A key chemical used in modern plastics has been found in human tissues at 10 times the concentration considered safe, new research has found.
Plastics chemical found in human tissue at high levels 10th August 2007 News Bisphenol A BPA EFSA New Scientist Chemical Chemicals Health Health Risk Risk Plastics Health Pollution News web pic …
We must beware an 'environmental' agenda that excludes the human dimension, Pope Francis writes in his recent Encyclical: the poor are least to blame for the ecological and climate crises, yet they are its primary victims. Humanity must make enduring decisions about the world we and our children will share.
… crises, yet they are its primary victims. Humanity must make enduring decisions about …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… on children's health , notes that most of humanity lives in environmentally stressed … estimate of planetary consumption is that humanity is using the equivalent of 1.6 Earths … already has been thrown in the air that humanity may have already committed itself to …
America's shale gas boom threatens families, pets, and food, writes Allison Wilson. Fresh from her reading of 'The Real Costs of Fracking', she finds a host of adverse health impacts on those living near fracking sites, the toxic pollution of the food chain, and a wall of corporate and official secrecy.
Exposed: what fracking really does to you, your family, pets and food Allison Wilson | 25th February 2015 Reviews Fracking Health Energy Toxics Pollution Food Farming USA …
Farming today is well on the way to becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the agro-chemical-biotech industry, writes Colin Tudge. Defra and the European Commission are all too keen to make it so, reflecting the interests of an agro-oligarchy obsessed with profits and growth at all costs. But there is an alternative. Join the 'real farming' agrarian renaissance ...
… profitably and what is actually of benefit to humanity or the biosphere. Farming - a wholly … in the countryside the world over. We, humanity, suffer greatly from commercial and …