...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.
“When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Sun, Sep 29 2024
‘Red Alert’ as 7th Planetary Boundary Breached
Editor’s note: This article is an update from a year ago. Trying to fix the climate change planetary boundary at the expense of biodiversity or any of the other planetary boundaries is a fool’s errand. This article does not state the fact that it [...]
Tue, Sep 24 2024
How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change
Editor’s note: Climate change is a symptom predicament of overshoot and is exploited by power elites to deflect from what is necessary, ending modern civilization. The slow death of nature started with civilization, it has exponentially sped up since [...]
Sat, Sep 21 2024
Subsidies That Harm the Environment Reach $2.6 Trillion Per Year
Editor’s note: This article does not mention the subsidies going to “renewable” energy, which is in the trillions, and its environmentally harmful implementation. Also not mentioned are the costs associated with the loss of livelihood for [...]
Tue, Sep 17 2024
Nearly 200 Environmental Defenders Killed in 2023
By Olivia Rosane, staff writer for Common Dreams. Almost 200 people were killed in 2023 for attempting to protect their lands and communities from ecological devastation, Global Witness revealed Tuesday. This raises the total number of environmental [...]
Fri, Sep 13 2024
Combatting Violence Against Nicaragua’s Indigenous Communities
By Max Radwin 29 JUL 2024 / Mongabay Indigenous communities on Nicaragua’s northern Caribbean coast continue to suffer threats, kidnappings, torture and unlawful arrests while defending communal territory from illegal settlements and mining. Residents say [...]
Tue, Sep 10 2024
Battery Storage Systems Are a Fire Hazard
By Katie Singer https://katiesinger.substack.com/p/bess-fire-hazards On Friday, August 30, Applied Energy Services Corporation (AES), a global utility and power generation company, submitted a proposal to Santa Fe, New Mexico county commissioners to build a [...]
Sat, Sep 07 2024
We’re Protecting the Ocean Wrong
Editor’s note: Protecting the ocean means life protection, our ecosystems depend on intact and clean oceans. Even though the aim is to protect 30% of the planet, it’s not clear what conservation actually means worldwide. That leads to ineffective [...]
Tue, Sep 03 2024
7 Steps to What a Real Renewable Energy Transition Looks Like
Editor’s note: We know what needs to be done but will it be done? No, the system will not allow it so the system must go. The sooner the better. Join a social movement advocating for a real energy transition, one that strives to guarantee that [...]
Sat, Aug 31 2024
Dark Oxygen Discovered In the Deep Sea
Editor’s note: Although Greenpeace has done many good things in the past, particularly their work that led to an international ban on whale hunting, it is astounding that they currently support offshore wind. Nick Young 26 July 2024 / [...]
Tue, Aug 27 2024
Building Environmental Activism In the Next Generation
Editor’s note: Environmental activism will only play a role in the lives of young people if adults are great role models and walk the talk. As custodians, we need to take the young out into nature to help them gain an appreciation for wilderness. So [...]