Latest Ecology

• Marlens: The Farms of the Future

  Farms of the future should be regenerative, diverse, accessible, community-oriented, places of celebration
• Beattie: Putting Values Into Action

  So, are we to assume these constituents would rather suffer respiratory conditions, heart disease, neurotoxicity, early death than endure view, sound, and the flicker of windmills?
• Dyke: ‘We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself’

  The most effective guard against climate breakdown may not be technological solutions, but a more fundamental reimagining of what constitutes a good life on this particular planet
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  Monbiot: Saving the life in our seas

  Industrial fishing is the biggest threat to our blue planet. So why don’t we act on it?
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  Albert: Socialism: Ecology or Nothing

  This is the twentieth and last essay in a multipart series addressing the surge in interest in and support for socialism, what the surge means, what it seeks or will seek, where it might extend, and how it might unfold
• Hunziker: Silent Spring’s Encore

  Rachel Carson’s famous and brilliant book Silent Spring (1962), which literally ignited the environmental movement, has never been more relevant than it is today
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  Monbiot: Cars are killing us

  Driving is ruining our lives, and triggering environmental disasters. Only drastic action will kick our dependency
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  Cole: Costa Rica’s ambitious Decarbonization Program

  A Model for the US Green New Deal?
• Milman: US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports

  In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste
• Linn: Till the cows come home

  Groundwater contamination devastates a New Mexico dairy – and threatens public health
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  Monbiot: Why disaster capitalists are praying for a no-deal Brexit

  They want to tear up our green regulations so they can plunder and pollute the environment for profit
• Alperstein: The EPA Rule Change That Could Kill Thousands

  Younger generations deserve to grow up protected from these harmful and deadly substances. The EPA wants to make mercury and air toxics deadlier again. We can’t let that happen
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  Monbiot: Don’t Breathe

  Pollution is now the biggest threat to children’s health. So why is it so neglected?
• Keene: Why are We Still Logging Our Forests?

  After 45 years of observing and evaluating federal logging, contemplating today’s climate science and considering what’s fair for all of us, I wonder — why are we still logging our woods?
• Essertier: “Henoko, the Latest Sacrifice Zone of the US-Japan Military Alliance”

  For the last for 20 years the Uchinā people have successfully held their ground against Tokyo’s efforts to construct a base there
• Linstroth: Preventing Brazilian Indigenous Genocide and Protecting the Amazon

  One of Bolsonaro's first official acts as a newly inaugurated president was doing away with demarcation of indigenous territories in Brazil. All of us living on this planet should be fearful of this act
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  Banerjee: Biological Annihilation

  A Planet in Loss Mode
• Shimo: Nestlé extracts millions of litres, residents have no drinking water

  Just 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land
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  Monbiot: An Electrifying Idea

  Electric food – the new sci-fi diet that could save our planet
• Carrington: Humanity has wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970

  The huge loss is a tragedy in itself but also threatens the survival of civilisation, say the world’s leading scientists
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  Monbiot: Plastic Soup

  The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism.
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  Fitz: Is Nuclear Power a Solution to the Climate Crisis?

  The great environmental challenge of our time is to understand that the many sources of biodestruction are interconnected and must be confronted simultaneously, rather than disparaging one danger to focus on another
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  Shiva: Kerala wake-up call on growth and development

  The images of floods and mudslides in Kerala, known as “God’s own country”, should be a wake-up call — we should ask ourselves if we are on a sustainable development path
• Raskin: “Fuck Wine Grapes, Fuck Wines”

  The Coming Napafication of the World
• Schwob: Haul Together

  With companies fighting reorganization, it’ll take a united front to get the private waste industry to clean up its act