by DGR News Service | Sep 19, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Human Supremacy
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 challenge 2022...
by DGR News Service | Aug 29, 2022 | Mining & Drilling, NEWS
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 “green.”...
by DGR News Service | Aug 1, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction, Climate Change
Editor’s note: Oil has been called the “master resource” of industrial civilization, because it facilitates almost every other economic activity and subsidizes almost every other form of extraction. Chainsaws, for example, run on gasoline; tractors...
by DGR News Service | Jul 29, 2022 | Climate Change, NEWS
Editor’s note: As the climate crisis accelerates, extreme weather is causing crop failures and other disasters. Today’s article shares a grim projection: the world may see more than 1 billion climate refugees by 2050. This problem is not new. Throughout...
by DGR News Service | Jul 25, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
By Max Wilbert Yesterday I met this juvenile red-shafted Northern Flicker in the high desert of Oregon. Flickers are common, but like all life on Earth, they are in danger. Bird populations around the world are collapsing. Even “common” species like the...
by DGR News Service | Jul 11, 2022 | ANALYSIS, Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction
Editor’s note: The dominant global culture (“industrial civilization”) is built on resource extraction and forced conversion of habitat to exclusive human use, and this has serious consequences. Both global warming and the ongoing mass extermination...
