Highlighting Severity of Ecological Crises & Rigorous Biocentric Responses
It is becoming abundantly clear that ending industrial diminishment of
primary and old growth forests [search] and working for their full protection and
restoration is a keystone response to climate change (to say nothing of biodiversity and water crises). Over the past years ecological science has learned much regarding the importance of these ancient
forests in regard to avoiding the worst climate change scenarios [search]. We have known for some time that these old forests are being lost...
A
Time Magazine article [
ark] late last year highlighted well our objections to
industrial agrofuels [search], indicating there are some hard choices to be made on ethanol by President Obama and his Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Both have been strong supporters of biofuels. Yet there is strong scientific evidence that using cropland to grow fuel instead of food is highly environmentally and economically damaging. Doing so both raises food prices around the world, while intensifying the conversion of...
A new report released by Australian conservation groups The Wilderness Society and, Still Wild, Still Threatened, shows that, despite claims to the contrary, Japanese paper manufacturers are the purchasers of
wood chips derived from the destruction of Tasmania’s oldgrowth forests [search]. This revelation comes after a major scandal in Japan where it was revealed that Nippon and Oji were misleading consumers about the amount of recycled paper content in their products. That scandal led to major...
It is becoming apparent that global warming caused
rising sea levels pose a far greater danger [
ark] to the planet than previously estimated. The most recent scientific consensus in 2007 from the
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that sea-level rises [search] of between 20 and 60 centimetres would occur by 2100. However, this estimate contained very little input from melting ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. The latest revised science suggests
climate change caused sea-level rise...