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Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction. There is a myth about human beings that withstands all evidence.

Capitalism is killing the planet – it’s time to stop buying into our own destruction

It’s that we always put our survival first. This is true of other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they invest great resources into avoiding or withstanding it: migrating or hibernating, for example. Humans are a different matter. When faced with an impending or chronic threat, such as climate or ecological breakdown, we seem to go out of our way to compromise our survival. Here is what we know. Human civilisation relies on current equilibrium states. Climate change now the main driver behind wildfire weather: study.

Alex Wigglesworth | Los Angeles Times A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that climate change is fueling more frequent and intense wildfires in the western United States.

Climate change now the main driver behind wildfire weather: study

The study’s researchers report that based on the rate that dry air sucks up moisture, climate change is essentially two-thirds to 88% responsible for the conditions driving the region’s wildfire woes. And that’s a conservative estimate, said study author Rong Fu, a climate researcher at UCLA. Two New Species of Semi-Aquatic Mice Identified in East African Rainforests. African wading mice are not just larger than your average house mouse—they’re also more adventurous.

Two New Species of Semi-Aquatic Mice Identified in East African Rainforests

Also called Colomys mice, the rodents stand on their long, stilt-like feet to wade in the shallows of swamps and rivers, skating their long whiskers on the surface of the water to sense the movement of prey, like insects and tadpoles, George Dvorsky reports for Gizmodo. When Colomys mice were found prowling riverbeds across east Africa, scientists first classified them all as one species, C. goslingi, with one subspecies. Apausalypse – Emergence Magazine. Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers. A new study in Nature Geoscience suggests that if all land suitable for reforestation was forested in Europe, average summer rainfall would increase by 7.6%, partially ameliorating drier summers predicted as a result of climate change.While the study is based on all the potentially reforestable land in Europe after accounting for food security and biodiversity, the amount of land people are willing and able to reforest is likely to be lower in practice.As a statistical model, the study helps scientists and policymakers understand the relationship between forests and precipitation and highlight the benefits beyond carbon sequestration.

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Plant more trees! This message has been one of the cornerstones of the European response to worsening climate change. A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security. Human-driven climate change is fueling weather extremes — from record drought to massive floods — that are hammering key agricultural regions around the world.From the grain heartland of Argentina to the tomato belt of California to the pork hub of China, extreme weather events have driven down output and driven up global commodity prices.Shortages of water and food have, in turn, prompted political and social strife in 2021, including food protests in Iran and hunger in Madagascar, and threaten to bring escalating misery, civil unrest and war in coming years.Experts warn the problem will only intensify, even in regions currently unaffected by, or thriving from the high prices caused by scarcity.

A world of hurt: 2021 climate disasters raise alarm over food security

Global transformational change is urgently needed in agricultural production and consumption patterns, say experts. In July, a video went viral on social media in Argentina showing people walking across what looks like a desert. The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago. As early as 1958, the oil industry was hiring scientists and engineers to research the role that burning fossil fuels plays in global warming.

The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago

The goal at the time was to help the major oil conglomerates understand how changes in the Earth’s atmosphere may affect the industry – and their bottom line. But what top executives gained was an early preview of the climate crisis, decades before the issue reached public consciousness. New York City warned ‘climate change is here’ as storm floods streets and subway.

Commuters having to wade through waist-deep water on subway concourses, rain cascading directly onto train platforms, desperate motorists rescued by police from their inundated cars – the battering New York City has taken from tropical storm Elsa has raised questions as to how well the metropolis is prepared for the ravages of the climate crisis.

New York City warned ‘climate change is here’ as storm floods streets and subway

Elsa had already hit areas of Florida and Georgia, causing at least one death, before shifting north, where it unleashed a barrage of thunderstorms on Thursday. The storm is now expected to move towards the Boston area, with about 40 million people from New Jersey to Maine issued flash flooding warnings. Some of the most dramatic scenes played out in New York City on Thursday afternoon. Videos taken by commuters showed people struggling through murky floodwater in order to catch the subway at the 157th St station.

“It was filthy water. Blame was quickly placed upon New York City’s creaking infrastructure. They’re Among the World’s Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them. Sequoia Crest, Calif. — Until a few years ago, about the only thing that killed an old-growth giant sequoia was old age.

They’re Among the World’s Oldest Living Things. The Climate Crisis Is Killing Them.

Not only are they the biggest of the world’s trees, by volume — the General Sherman Tree, considered the largest, is 36 feet in diameter at its base and 275 feet tall — they are among the oldest. At least one fallen giant sequoia was estimated to have been more than 3,200 years old. They last so long that, historically, only one or two of every thousand old-growth trees dies annually, according to Nate Stephenson, a research ecologist for the United States Geological Survey.

No water no life: harm water harm life

Many Americans do not have water to drink. Nordic countries endure heatwave as Lapland records hottest day since 1914. Nordic countries have registered near-record temperatures over the weekend, including highs of 34C (93.2F) in some places.

Nordic countries endure heatwave as Lapland records hottest day since 1914

The latest figures came after Finland’s national meteorological institute registered its hottest temperature for June since records began in 1844. Kevo, in Lapland, recorded heat of 33.6C (92.5F) on Sunday, the hottest day since 1914 when authorities registered 34.7C (94.5F), said the STT news agency. Several parts of Sweden also reported record highs for June. The high temperatures follow the record-breaking heatwave and wildfires that have caused devastation in parts of North America.

World Water Supply Shrinking

Food Supply - Monsanto & other pollutants. Pesticides Are Killing the World's Soils. Scoop up a shovelful of healthy soil, and you’ll likely be holding more living organisms than there are people on Earth.

Pesticides Are Killing the World's Soils

Like citizens of an underground city that never sleeps, tens of thousands of subterranean species of invertebrates, nematodes, bacteria and fungi are constantly filtering our water, recycling nutrients and helping to regulate the planet’s temperature. But under fields covered in tightly knit rows of corn, soybeans, wheat and other monoculture crops, a toxic soup of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides is wreaking havoc, according to our recent analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.

Trump & Oil & Corps. backers - Earth theirs to plunder

David Attenborough Netflix documentary: Australian scientists break down in tears over climate crisis. One of Australia’s leading coral reef scientists is seen breaking down in tears at the decline of the Great Barrier Reef during a new Sir David Attenborough documentary to be released globally on Friday evening. Prof Terry Hughes is recounting three coral bleaching monitoring missions in 2016, 2017 and 2020 when he says: “It’s a job I hoped I would never have to do because it’s actually very confronting …” before tears cut him short. The emotional scene comes during the new Netflix documentary, Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet, and shows the toll the demise of the planet’s natural places is having on some of the people who study them.

Climate Undermined by Lobbying. For all the evidence that the benefits of reducing greenhouse gases outweigh the costs of regulation, disturbingly few domestic climate change policies have been enacted around the world so far. So say UC Santa Barbara professor and economist Kyle Meng, and co-author Ashwin Rode, a former UCSB Ph.D. student now at the University of Chicago, in a paper published in the journal Nature Climate Change. “There is a striking disconnect between what is needed to avoid dangerous climate change and what has actually been done to date,” said Meng, a professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and in the Department of Economics. One common explanation for that disconnect, he added, is that jurisdictions are reluctant to adopt climate policy when they can simply benefit from the reductions implemented by other jurisdictions.

Latest data shows steep rises in CO2 for seventh year. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by the second highest annual rise in the past six decades, according to new data. Atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gas were 414.8 parts per million in May, which was 3.5ppm higher than the same time last year, according to readings from the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii, where carbon dioxide has been monitored continuously since 1958. Scientists have warned for more than a decade that concentrations of more than 450ppm risk triggering extreme weather events and temperature rises as high as 2C, beyond which the effects of global heating are likely to become catastrophic and irreversible.

May is the most significant month for global carbon dioxide concentrations because it is the peak value for the year, before the growth of vegetation in the northern hemisphere starts to absorb the gas from the air. ... and you’re joining us from Canada, we have a small favour to ask. Earth at 2° hotter will be horrific. Now here’s what 4° will look like. Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years. Climate crisis has shifted the Earth’s axis, study shows. The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth’s axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown. It demonstrates the profound impact humans are having on the planet, scientists said. Watching Earth Burn. I have a pastime, one that used to give me considerable pleasure, but lately it has morphed into a source of anxiety, even horror: earth-watching. Let me explain. The earth from space is an incomparably lovely sight. I mean the whole planet, pole to pole, waxing and waning and rotating in that time-generating way it has, and not the views from the International Space Station, which is in a low orbit about 200 miles up and gives us only part of the whole.

My earth-watching, made possible by NOAA and Colorado State University websites, originates in three geostationary weather satellites parked in exceedingly high orbits above the Equator. Despite their seemingly static positions, GOES-16 and 17, two American satellites, and Himawari-8, a Japanese one, are actually whizzing through space at 6,876 miles per hour.

Earth Heats - This Happens- Droughts, Fires, Floods.....

Why Silicon Valley billionaires are prepping for the apocalypse in New Zealand. Help / Still Beauty & Hope for environment and survival. Why a Climate-Denial Coalition May Be Cracking Apart. Earthquakes/ Nuclear Disaster/Radiation & Fracking.

Maps Show How Dramatically Fertilizer is Choking the Great Lakes. Japan's recovery from tsunami disaster, by the numbers. Is this the end of forests as we've known them? Camille Stevens-Rumann never used to worry about seeing dead trees. We’re Barely Listening to the U.S.’s Most Dangerous Volcanoes. Some Ecological Damage from Trump's Rushed Border Wall Could Be Repaired. Inside the C.I.A., She Became a Spy for Planet Earth. Linda Zall played a starring role in American science that led to decades of major advances. New documentary about Canada's boreal forest reveals how it's in trouble, director says. The Earth - A Living Creature (The Amazing NASA Video) 1080p. The Social Life of Forests.

One Man’s Mission to Revive the Last Redwood Forests. Regreening the desert with John D. Liu. Have a Look at the Fabled Honey Forest. Monster Bird Is One Of The World's Largest Eagles.

Plastic Pollution Damage

Belching Cows and Endless Feedlots: Fixing Cattle’s Climate Issues. Restoring Farmland Could Drastically Slow Extinctions, Fight Climate Change. Extinction- the facts. New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States. Untitled. Untitled. This All-Female Unit Of Rangers Protecting Wildlife From Poachers In Zimbabwe Is Epic. Shockingly Simple: How Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 From the Atmosphere Each Year. Tiny Weed-Killing Robots Could Make Pesticides Obsolete.

Can Asia end its uncontrolled consumption of wildlife? Here's how North America did it a century ago. Polar Bear Cubs at High Risk from Toxic Industrial Chemicals, Despite Bans. Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds. Oil and gas firms 'have had far worse climate impact than thought' What's in your water? Researchers identify new toxic byproducts of disinfecting drinking water. (2) Melting ice – the future of the Arctic. (2) Antarctica melting: Journey to the 'doomsday glacier' - BBC News. What Plants Talk About (Full Documentary) Doomsday Clock Set At 100 Seconds To Midnight, Issuing Dire Warning Of Apocalypse.

Greta Thunberg hits back at Mnuchin criticism over climate crisis. Photos of the Decade: 2010–19. Behold Sparklemuffin and Skeletorus, New Peacock Spiders. 7 Books That Look at Nature Up Close. A Corridor Runs Through It. Photographer Captures The Precious Moments Of What Happens In Nature When No One’s Around (30 Pics) Broccoli Is Dying. Corn Is Toxic. Long Live Microbiomes! US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters and how you can stop it. (2) Nature: Sunflowers. Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted. ‘Frightening’ number of plant extinctions found in global survey. Puffins found starving to death in mass die-off likely linked to climate change, study suggests. Octopuses May Go Blind As Climate Change Sucks Oxygen Out of the Ocean.

Killing off animals and plants now threatens humanity itself, UN experts to warn in urgent call for action. Untitled Project GIF by (@turniptulip) Greenland is melting even faster than experts thought, study finds. 'The Time for Excuses Is Over': Extinction Rebellion Protests Shut Down European Cities. Meet the Rare Swimming Wolves That Eat Seafood. Oil And Gas Giants Spend Millions Lobbying To Block Climate Change Policies [Infographic]

The destruction of the Earth is a crime. It should be prosecuted. Sage grouse just lost important habitat protections: What it means. US judge halts hundreds of drilling projects in groundbreaking climate change ruling. A simple idea to whip climate change. Fact-checking presidential candidate Jay Inslee on climate change and 'the worst air in the world' Images of Melt: Earth's Vanishing Ice. The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn. Documents detail multimillion-dollar ties involving EPA official, secretive industry group. Weedkiller 'raises risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma by 41%' The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change.

The War Against Solar Energy. Heartbreaking Animation for the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. In 45 years, we have killed 60% of Earth’s wildlife. ‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change. The US won't be prepared for the next natural disaster. Immediate fossil fuel phaseout could arrest climate change – study. Sea rise breaking Miami Dade FL septic tanks, report shows. 60 Environmental Rules on the Way Out Under Trump.

U.S. Carbon Emissions Surged in 2018 Even as Coal Plants Closed. UP: This 25-Year-Old Has Brought About A Dozen Dead Lakes Back To Life.