...So think "resistance" with all your aching heart, a word that must become our promise to what is left of this planet. Gather the others: you already know them. The brave, smart, militant, and, most of all, serious, and together take aim. Do it carefully, but do it.
Then fire for all you're worth.
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness.”
Tue, Sep 27 2022
The Kingfisher, the Horse, and being on Country
Editor’s note: Today we bring you a beautiful essay from Australia. By Sue Coulstock For David Gulpilil, Sunsmart and the Earth, with love and thanks. Written December 6 – 16, 2021 This is still being revised because it’s so difficult to find the [...]
Fri, Sep 23 2022
Top Scientists: We Face “A Ghastly Future”
Editor’s note: According to the scientists who wrote the following paper, “future environmental conditions will be far more dangerous than currently believed. The scale of the threats to the biosphere and all its lifeforms—including [...]
Mon, Sep 19 2022
Environmentalism is Being Mainstreamed at the Cost of Its Soul
By Max Wilbert David Roberts — a journalist who has written for Vox and Grist and now runs a popular green-tech newsletter — recently shared this on Twitter: Eliminate the words "planet" & "earth" from your climate communication [...]
Fri, Sep 16 2022
How to Organise a Protest March
Editor’s Note: When many people think of political engagement, they think of protests. However, protests are merely one tactic among thousands. Like all tactics, protests can be very effective in contributing to a broader strategy, or they can [...]
Mon, Sep 12 2022
“Climate Endgame”: New Peer-Reviewed Paper Explores Catastrophic Climate Change Scenarios
Editor’s Note: Global warming is a serious threat to our planet, and, along with mass extinction, wildlife population collapse, habitat destruction, desertification, aquifer drawdown, oceanic dead zones, pollution, and other ecological issues, is one [...]
Fri, Sep 09 2022
Krill, The Most Abundant Species on Earth and Key Food Source for Whales, Are in Trouble
Editor’s note: By biomass, krill are the most abundant species in the world and the main food source for all baleen whales — including blue whales, the largest animals on the planet and the largest ever known to have existed. Regardless of how [...]
Mon, Sep 05 2022
The BBC Promotes Sexism Under The Guise of Health
Editor’s note: Most of the world’s science is conducted in service of profit and militarism which both depends upon for its creation and results in ruin for the natural world. In this article, Evan Richards draws links between the destruction of [...]
Fri, Sep 02 2022
A Planned $1.1 Billion Hydroelectric Dam is Threatening the Largest Lake in the Philippines, and Community Activists are Being Persecuted for Fighting Back
Editor’s note: Activists and environmentalists in the Philippines take extreme risks by speaking out to protect land and water. The Philippines has consistently been ranked as the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders. This [...]
Mon, Aug 29 2022
Skepticism Grows Louder Over Deep-Sea Mining
Editor’s note: Deep-sea mining is a sign of addiction. Only a culture driven by a death urge masquerading as a profit-production-motive could contemplate destroying some of the largest and most intact remaining habitats on Earth and call it [...]
Fri, Aug 26 2022
Dams or Fish. Choose one.
In the Pacific Northwest, fish cannot coexist with massive electricity demand. by Max Wilbert In 1980, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) was given a mission to protect and restore salmon and steelhead fish populations in addition to running the dams [...]
