Tag: Earth

  • The Age of Human Arrogance, Part III

    For centuries, humanity imagined itself as the apex of creation — the God chosen species, the master builder, the rightful ruler of the Earth. But no empire has ever been as destructive as the one we have built in our own name. We have poisoned rivers, erased forests, destabilized climates, and driven ancient species to […]

  • The Age of Human Arrogance, Part II

    What on Earth Are We Doing? The Madness of Mining the Cosmos While Poisoning Our Only Home Humanity stands at a strange and tragic crossroads. We boast of our intelligence, our innovation, our “progress,” yet we behave like a species determined to sabotage its own future. We tear open the earth for minerals, metals, and […]

  • The Age of Human Arrogance

    For most of human history, we lived as one species among many. We shared forests with elephants, rivers with hippos, skies with vultures, and coastlines with turtles whose migrations predate our earliest civilizations. The natural world was not a backdrop to human life; it was the condition that made human life possible. For millennia, animals […]

  • Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism

    As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression in the streets. In this moment, questions of power — who has it, how it is exercised, and how it can be withdrawn — are […]

  • Global Floods Beckon Noah

    Global Floods Beckon Noah

    Devastating widespread flooding and flash floods are becoming normal. Try spinning a globe and stop at any continent, other than Antarctica, blindfolded, point a finger, spot a flood. There’s nothing fake about the global warming leviathan absorbing more moisture in a warming atmosphere, much more than ever before, feeding a frenzy of powerful thunderstorms and […]

  • From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia

    A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic. — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (2023) We are currently […]

  • Last Rites for a Dying Civilization

    Last Rites for a Dying Civilization

    When the Black Death struck Europe in the Middle Ages, the fundamental values that held society together broke down. Husbands and wives abandoned each other and mothers abandoned their children. This void of ethics that overtook the population is described in Boccaccio’s The Decameron, considered a masterpiece of Italian prose and a documentary of life […]

  • Mega Risks Threaten Earth

    The Council for the Human Future, which is a dedicated group of intelligent well-informed people, has identified ten Mega Risks to Earth. As it happens, all ten risks are threatening the planet all at the same time. Consequently, the board of the Council has called for an Earth System Treaty. This may be one of […]

  • Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

    Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest Destabilizes the World

    A new 40-year study discovered the eye-opening fact that what happens in the Amazon Rainforest impacts the entire Earth system. This puts an exclamation point on the fact that the Amazon Rainforest, the planet’s most crucial source of life support [NASA and NOAA attribute about half of the oxygen production on Earth to the ocean, […]

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