Category: Biodiversity / Biodevastation
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A Different “Abundance Agenda”: Avoiding Delusions and Diversions
But if the promise of renewable energy is used to prop up existing levels of consumption, then the best we can expect is a slowing of the rate of ecological destruction. Unless renewables are one component of an overall down-powering, they are a part of the problem and not a solution.
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Farmers of La Via Campesina: We Globalize Struggles and Hopes!
The main issue is that people who want to farm in a more sustainable and healthy way have to sell their products at a higher price and end up feeding the rich. That’s a big concern for La Via and Conf. Everywhere in the world current food prices make it nearly impossible for farmers and…
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Genetic Engineering and Generative AI: An Explosive Mix
Generative AI models produce predictions or recommendations without providing insight into how or why they arrived at those conclusions. In sensitive areas such as plant genetic engineering, where the products reproduce and interact in nature, and the consequences can affect public health and the environment, the lack of comprehension and reproducibility is particularly concerning.
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Anticipation of an Ambush
At about 6:00, I changed out of my jeans and into a pair of sweatpants. My phone pinged – a group of teenage settler boys were gathering at an ATV on the road into the village. I grabbed my camera and headed out as the settler boys walked into the olive grove next to the…
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Air pollution may weaken children’s brain connections, study shows
Children exposed to higher levels of air pollution in their homes from birth to age three may develop weaker connections between key brain regions, with potentially long-lasting effects on future learning, behavior, and health, according to one of the first studies of its kind. The study is one of the first to explore how air…
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AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
We asked four chatbots the same series of questions about the issues, causes, consequences and solutions to nine environmental challenges. We found evidence of systematic biases in their responses. Most notably, chatbots avoid mentioning radical solutions to environmental challenges. They are far more likely to propose combinations of soft economic, social or political changes
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Educational Pluralism” Another Name for Privatization
Johns Hopkins University and The 74 teamed up one more time to satisfy their billionaire donors and promote privatizing public education. Ashley Berner, Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, is featured in a The 74 interview entitled “‘We’re the Outliers’: Ashley Rogers Berner on Public Funding for Private Schools.” She notes that…
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Three quarters of the world’s land is drying out, ‘redefining life on earth’
New research has found global warming has made 77 percent of the Earth’s land drier over the past three decades while rapidly increasing the proportion of excessively salty soils.
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While plastic dominates human consumption, the global economy will remain hooked on fossil fuels
Over half of all plastics ever made were produced in the past 25 years, and production levels are estimated to double or triple again by 2050. And more production brings more waste.
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Capitalism: The Director of Degradation
So, is environmental degradation truly linked to poverty? Not entirely. While poverty may contribute to some unsustainable practices, affluence and the capitalist system that fuels it, is the real culprit.
