The recently published World Wildlife Fund 2018 Living Planet Report reveals that we have killed 60% of all wildlife in the last 40 years. I would remind readers that as recently as 200,000 years ago we would have considered our ancestors wildlife by any of today’s definitions. We have come to be by the same …
EXTINCTION – Mammals on Death Row
Mankind is driving a mass extinction that could obliterate large swathes of life on Earth for millions of years, scientists have warned in a new study. The US National Academy of Sciences has published a report in its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), on the 15 October called “Mammals …
Greta Thunberg on Climate Action
My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 15 years old. I am from Sweden. I speak on behalf of Climate Justice Now. Many people say that Sweden is just a small country and it doesn’t matter what we do. But I’ve learned you are never too small to make a difference. And if a few children can get …
EXTINCTION – Collapse of Rainforest Food Web
Climate Change is killing arthropods and this is undermining the food web in rainforests. In October 2018 the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal (PNAS) published a report called “Climate-driven declines in arthropod abundance restructure a rainforest food web” Arthropods are insects and invertebrates such as spiders and centipedes, what we casually refer […]
Greta Thunberg on Climate Change
Greta Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish climate activist. She is known for her strike outside the Riksdag in Stockholm, Sweden under the slogan Skolstrejk för klimatet (School Strike for the climate). This Swedish 15-year-old has been named one of the world’s most influential teenagers by …
Extinction – It is Real, It is Now
Our best estimates place the age of the universe at about 14 billion years. Science tells us that the Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago. Our oceans were appeared 700 million years after that. The first evidence of life may have been discovered in the shape of fossils of microorganisms that are 4 billion years …
The Moral Crisis of our Time
The politically correct term for the havoc we are causing to weather conditions is Climate Change, which in fact is mostly global warming. It is the rise in temperature that, for example, is melting the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps. The rise in temperatures is being caused by greenhouse gas emissions that trap the …
The Lies about Plastic
It is important to understand where plastic comes from and who is benefitting from the wholesale devastation of our planet. Over 99% of plastic is produced from chemicals that are derived almost entirely from fossil fuels i.e. Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) and crude oil. For this reason plastic manufacturing plants are …
Forests #theforgottensolution
Forests are the forgotten solution to Climate Change. Large forests are capable of sucking up huge amounts of carbon. Forests like those still found in the Amazon, the largest forested region on the planet, act like a sink to remove emissions from the atmosphere. Global Forest Watch monitors …
Declaration Of Animal Rights
The Declaration of Animal Rights – a project of international animal rights and planet conservation group Our Planet. Theirs Too – was drafted in May 2011 and publicly read and signed on June 3rd of the same year, on the 1st National Animal Rights Day in the US, in the city of New York. The Declaration was …