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Tag Archives: Mass Extinction
Our Vanishing World: Wildlife
By Robert J. Burrowes Throughout its history, Earth has experienced five mass extinction events. See, for example, ‘Timeline Of Mass Extinction Events On Earth’. It is now experiencing the sixth. The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction, which occurred about 439 million years ago, … Continue reading
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Tagged 6th Extinction, Biodiversity, Biosphere, civilization, co-extinction, Cognitive Revolution, Ecology, environment, Extinction, extinction cascades, habitat destruction, localized extinctions, Mass Extinction, Philosophy, pollution, psychology, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Sociology, Violence, Yuval Noah Harari
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Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating
By Robert J. Burrowes Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, Health, Science, society, State Crime, war
Tagged 6th Extinction, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Earth, Ecological Catastrophe, environment, environmental catastrophe, Extinction, habitat loss, Humans, invasive organisms, Mass Extinction, Nuclear War, Overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, Population Growth, toxification, war
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Life on Earth is Dying
By Robert J. Burrowes On the day that you read this article, 200 species of life on Earth (plants, birds, animals, fish, amphibians, insects, reptiles) will cease to exist. Tomorrow, another 200 species will vanish forever. The human onslaught to … Continue reading
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Tagged Biosphere, civilization, Climate Change, Consumerism, Die Off, economic inequality, Ecosystem, environment, Farming, Mass Extinction, Military, Natural Habitat, Overshoot, pollution, Soil, Starvation, Sustainability, Wildlife
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A Nonviolent Strategy to End the Climate Catastrophe
By Robert J. Burrowes As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see ‘The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently‘– … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, civil disobedience, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Empire, Environment, Philosophy, society, Sociology, war
Tagged civilization, Climate Change, corporatocracy, Dystopia, environment, environmental catastrophe, Extinction, Flame Tree Project, Gandhi, Geocide, Human Population, Mass Extinction, Nonviolent Resistance, war
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