Foreword To "Extinction Dialogues," By Andrew Harvey

Foreword To "Extinction Dialogues," By Andrew Harvey

No one who truly reads this book will ever be the same afterwards.  Whether you agree in the end with its drastic and shocking conclusions is, of course, up to you; the very fact that such a book, outlining the case for the coming extinction of life on earth, could be...
The Age Of Loneliness Is Killing Us, By George Monbiot

The Age Of Loneliness Is Killing Us, By George Monbiot

What do we call this time? It’s not the information age: the collapse of popular education movements left a void filled by marketing and conspiracy theories. Like the stone age, iron age and space age, the digital age says plenty about our artefacts but little about society. The anthropocene, in which humans exert a major impact on the biosphere, fails to distinguish this century from the previous 20. What clear social change marks out our time from those that precede it? To me it’s obvious. This is the Age of Loneliness.

Earth Changes: Eruptions, Adjustments, And Love, By Jack Adam Weber

Earth Changes: Eruptions, Adjustments, And Love, By Jack Adam Weber

When hope is used to reject reality, this is called denial, and denial usually has a darker side than the (fertile and therefore rejuvenating) darkness it initially resisted. When we accept the dark and difficult side of side of life, the experiences that are not rosy and peaceful, we give ourselves an opportunity to undergo transformation, a transformation that can deliver us in earnest to a new level of fulfillment, integration, and therefore healing.

Uncharted Territory For A System In Overshoot, By Mary Odum

Uncharted Territory For A System In Overshoot, By Mary Odum

We are in uncharted territory with the Ebola virus disease (EVD). The last time we had a plague that was this deadly was the Black Death in the 14th century, when there were only 450 million people in the world. That pandemic killed 30% to 70% of the population. There is no benchmark for EVD, which kills 3 out of 4 people it touches, and is emerging into a global population of 7 billion.