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The Accelerating Destruction Of Earth’s Biodiversity: When Will We Act?
By Robert J. Burrowes As those individuals aware of it will have observed, presumably with deep regret, the latest ‘International Day for Biological Diversity’passed on 22 May with the bulk of the human population continuing to act in ways that destroy … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged 5G, Biodiversity, Biosphere, Climate Change, Consumerism, Deforestation, electrosmog, environment, Extinction, Fracking, poaching, pollution, Resource depletion, Technocracy, trophy hunting
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Political Collapse: The Center Cannot Hold
By Kirkpatrick Sale Source: CounterPunch Have you noticed? From Hong Kong to Baghdad, Paris to Tehran, 2019 is shaping up to be, as the New York Times dubbed it, “the year of the protest.” Violent—and often deadly—anti-government protests are breaking … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anarchism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Oligarchy, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Anarchy, Autocracy, Chaos, Civil War, Climate Change, Corporate Crime, Dystopia, elites, Failed States, Immigration, migration, Oligarchy, Political collapse, Poverty, protests, Refugees, Resource depletion, terrorism, war
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The Need for a Greater Vision: Recognizing Reality
By Jennifer Ladd Source: Resilience Question Beliefs We live in a culture that is embedded in unquestioned beliefs passing as truth. These beliefs are the source of our current crisis. We attempt to solve the problems of degradation of our … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, History, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Belief, capitalism, climate disruption, culture, Debt, Ecological Crisis, Ecology, economic instability, Economics, environment, environmental degradation, Extinction, Money, Philosophy, political tension, pollution, Progress, Reality, Resource depletion, science, spirituality, technology, Truth
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Soylent Burgers and Cockroach Milk
Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “The profitability of production cannot expand indefinitely. Any increase in the quantity of soil, water, minerals, or plants put into a particular production process per unit of time constitutes intensification. It has been the burden of … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Health, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged civilization, Cockroach Milk, Collapse, Die Off, Dystopia, Economics, Futurology, history, Industrial Food, Intensification, Jared Diamond, Marvin Harris, OVerpopulation, Overshoot, Processed Food, Resource depletion
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On the Slow Kill of the World’s Oceans
By Aaron Dames Originally posted at Divided Core on November 1, 2013 It is probable that every major ecological pillar however tenuously stabilizing the structure of the oceans is crumbling. Although some endangered fish populations and coral reef systems are … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Environment, Science, society
Tagged Aaron Dames, Dead Zones, Deepwater Horizon, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Die-Offs, Divided Core, environment, environmental catastrophe, environmentalism, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Gulf of Mexico, Human Waste, Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Academy of Sciences, Oil spill, On the Slow Kill of the World's Oceans, Overfishing, pollution, Resource depletion
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