Earth's ecosystems are collapsing, human and all species'
habitats are being lost, and our one shared biosphere is failing and
dying. Love of other peoples and species and of nature, truth, justice,
and equity are the only lasting basis for global ecological
sustainability.
“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Krishnamurti
“Truth matters. Freedom matters. Justice matters. Ecology matters. Peace matters. Compassion matters. Knowledge matters. Love matters. We should all try to matter by serving such ideals.” – Dr. Glen Barry
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Earth is alive – just like the biological patterns found in cells,
species, individual organisms, and ecosystems; only at a different scale
– and thus can die if boundary conditions for health are exceeded. The
biosphere [search]
– Earth's thin mantle of life – is collapsing and dying, as ecosystems
and climate are being murdered by human industrial growth. Such ecocidal
madness, called "development," is hailed as the goal for society when
in fact it is ecocide, and can only end in utter social, economic, and
ecological collapse. Industrial human development destroys natural
ecosystems necessary to maintain a habitable Earth.
Burning fossil fuels and clearing natural ecosystems are industrial ecocide, the furthest thing possible from "development" or any meaningful and lasting human advancement. The global ecological system is being overrun by human industrial growth, which is ravaging ecosystems upon which all life depends. Runaway human exponential growth systematically strips our habitat of life-giving species and ecosystems, and then it fouls and poisons whatever remains.
The problem with climate change and ecosystem loss is that we think we have time, when in fact the biosphere is already well into collapse. The evidence is pouring in that climate change, biodiversity extinction, and terrestrial ecosystem loss already exceed thresholds whereby the biosphere is collapsing. Humanity is already in mid-death swoon, pulling down the biosphere as it annihilates itself, kindred species, and shared habitat. Humanity is like a disease on the planet, consuming life-giving habitats and treating nature as resources to liquidate and consume, after which there can only be collapse and mass death.
Humanity’s wild careening towards apocalyptic global ecosystem
collapse is caused by, and is causing, the rise of new fascist and
violent governments. The global environment and freedom are collapsing
and dying in tandem as the industrial growth machine liquidates
ecosystems in the doomed attempt to keep up with the material demands of
burgeoning population and the ruling elites’ overconsumption. To
maintain the mirage of advancement from ecosystem liquidation,
governments strip away liberties and impose fascism, obstructing the
necessary social change to sustain ecology.“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Krishnamurti
“Truth matters. Freedom matters. Justice matters. Ecology matters. Peace matters. Compassion matters. Knowledge matters. Love matters. We should all try to matter by serving such ideals.” – Dr. Glen Barry
By Dr. Glen Barry, Ecological Internet
Earth Meanders come from Earth's Newsdesk
Earth is alive – just like the biological patterns found in cells,
species, individual organisms, and ecosystems; only at a different scale
– and thus can die if boundary conditions for health are exceeded. The
biosphere [search]
– Earth's thin mantle of life – is collapsing and dying, as ecosystems
and climate are being murdered by human industrial growth. Such ecocidal
madness, called "development," is hailed as the goal for society when
in fact it is ecocide, and can only end in utter social, economic, and
ecological collapse. Industrial human development destroys natural
ecosystems necessary to maintain a habitable Earth.Burning fossil fuels and clearing natural ecosystems are industrial ecocide, the furthest thing possible from "development" or any meaningful and lasting human advancement. The global ecological system is being overrun by human industrial growth, which is ravaging ecosystems upon which all life depends. Runaway human exponential growth systematically strips our habitat of life-giving species and ecosystems, and then it fouls and poisons whatever remains.
The problem with climate change and ecosystem loss is that we think we have time, when in fact the biosphere is already well into collapse. The evidence is pouring in that climate change, biodiversity extinction, and terrestrial ecosystem loss already exceed thresholds whereby the biosphere is collapsing. Humanity is already in mid-death swoon, pulling down the biosphere as it annihilates itself, kindred species, and shared habitat. Humanity is like a disease on the planet, consuming life-giving habitats and treating nature as resources to liquidate and consume, after which there can only be collapse and mass death.
True peace is not the absence of conflict as enslaved and needlessly dying at your own hand. Peace is rights, equity, justice, jobs, ecological sustainability for which people sometimes must fight. Only a prudent, well-considered revolutionary change of governance that is minimally violent or nonviolent can stop the cycle of big nanny, corporatist government razing the Earth for a few decades of further irrational ecocide.
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