Humans disconnect from, and arrogance towards, nature and Earth systems has led to unprecedented vulnerability. Climate chaos is now exposing how human habitat is burdened with structural vulnerability, with the real estate industry being just one example. Major reform is required. No more business as usual!
Undisclosed: Most Homebuyers And Renters Aren’t Warned About Flood Or Wildfire Risk
The Purged: The Vanished Voters of Trump’s America
International Day to Abolish the CIA
Bolivian electoral commission thwarts election observers
BREAKING ?: The Bolivian electoral commission (@TSEBolivia) has failed to grant election observer status to PI delegation – including @jeremycorbyn, @DeputadoFederal, @HeikeHaensel, @SofiaSakorafa, @G_Pisarello, & @_mkonieczny – despite widespread fears of fraud & violence. pic.twitter.com/JLnknvnIOa
— Progressive International (@ProgIntl) October 5, 2020
Surveillance program that gathered Americans’ phone data was illegal, court finds
Surveillance program that gathered Americans’ phone data was illegal, court finds was an article headline in the Washington Post of two days ago. This is wonderful news. Governments should have nothing to hide. That is, of course, if they’re not run by kleptomaniacs and sociopaths and that, my dear, is a whole other problem…
Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA’s activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.
And yet that day has arrived. https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 2, 2020
Taoist monks find new role as environmentalists
Hiroshima Bombing 75th Anniversary
Radio Interview About Biomimicry and More
Crisis Gardening: Fresh Food Fast
Food security should be job number one for everyone right about now. As our food supply is under increasing threat, taking matters into your own hands (by working with the soil and nature’s forces) can provide both food and sanity. You’d be amazed how much food you can grow in a small amount of space and how good you’ll feel working with living things. What are you waiting for?
System Error
Infinite economic growth flies in the face of real limits that exist in the Earth’s biosphere. Excessive loading of carbon into the atmosphere has disrupted the earth’s natural carbon cycle and has changed our weather patterns that were stable before the industrial revolution. Our monoculture and corresponding destruction of diversity has led to a global pandemic that is threatening to bring down civilization as we know it. These phenomena are integrally linked to humanity’s obsession with growth. Time for de-growth!