Tag: global warming

Dear Caesar Keep Burning, raping, killing But please, please Spare us your obscene poetry And ugly music – From Seneca’s last letter to Nero The excav

Source: Crimes Against the Earth

Modern urban-industrial man is given to the raping of anything and everything natural on which he can fasten his talons.  He rapes the sea; he rapes the soil;

Source: Climate Change and the Limits of Reason

Source: East Antarctica is losing ice faster than anyone thought | Richard Dawkins Foundation

“Science has clearly told us that we need to act now to keep the planet within 1.5 degrees of warming,” the young climate activist says in calling for day of action on Friday

Source: ‘Whoever You Are, Wherever You Are, We Need You’: 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Calls for Global Climate Strike

Our future on Earth may also be our past. Researchers show that humans are reversing a long-term cooling trend tracing back at least 50 million years. And it’s taken just two centuries.

Source: Humans may be reversing the climate clock, by 50 million years — ScienceDaily

“Hurricanes and wildfires and bleaching and drought… they’re happening to us right now, and we face new and challenging risks of how they’re going to affect us in the future.”

Source: As Demand for Urgent Transformation Intensifies, New Study Shows Hotter Planet Making Extreme Weather Deadlier

“Unless there is a fair deal that accounts for the legacy of climate change caused by industrialized developed countries, we will never have a sustainable global strategy.”

Source: Rich Nations Aren’t ‘Paying Their Fair Share’ to Mitigate the Climate Crisis, Says Report Released at COP24

There is a possibility that our species will survive the predicted climate catastrophe. To believe otherwise is too despairing a prospect.

Source: Climatology as eschatology – Common Ground