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The Earth Is Telling Us We Must Rethink Our Growth Society As the pandemic builds, most people, led by government officials and policy wonks, perceive the threat solely in terms of human health and its impact on the national economy. Consistent with the prevailing vision, mainstream media call almost exclusively on physicians and epidemiologists, financiers and economists to assess the consequences of the viral outbreak. Fair enough - rampant disease and looming recession are genuine immediat...

What Does ‘Carbon Footprint’ Actually Mean — And How Can You Reduce Yours? There are lots of easy ways to assess and cut down on your carbon emissions. Why Global Citizens Should Care The United Nations Global Goal 13 calls for countries to take action on climate change, and Global Goal 12 calls for responsible production and consumption. Being aware of your carbon footprint and taking steps to reduce it is an important part of achieving both goals. To find out more about climate change a...

An early edition of the Western Telegraph’s forerunner, dating back to 1866, has come to light during a cupboard clear-out in a house in Haverfordwest, and research has revealed it was published just eleven days after the death of Welshman George Everest, who the famous Himalayan mountain is named after. Joanna Warden, 47, of Hill Street, made the stunning discovery of the Pembrokeshire newspaper which was stuck behind the lining paper of her bedroom cupboards. Cllr Dr Simon Hancock, cu...

In his 1939 memoir, the author best known for “The Little Prince” chronicles his experiences as a pioneering aviator.

Taking to the skies in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s ‘Wind, Sand and Stars’ Mary Winston Nicklin © Mary Winston Nicklin for The Washington Post The authors well-worn copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s “Wind, Sand and Stars,” published in French as “Terre des hommes” in 1939. The fourth in an occasional series on the books that spurred our love of travel. I can’t remember the last time I flew on a plane. It was over a year ago that the pandemic grounded t...

Its strawberry season. James and I are at the Ellis Farms u-pick on Deltas Westham Island, crouching between long rows of the bunchy green plants, plucking the big berries and dropping them gently into small buckets. We imagine their future with cream and in pies. I lick the sweet red juice from my fingers. "If I make jam we can have strawberries all year," I say. James asks with what, exactly, I plan to make the jam? Sugar? One of the planets most exploitative products, shipped in from thousan...

See: Earth's human population has grown exponentially. The number of people on the planet has increased from about 1 billion in 1800 to 2.5 billion by 1950, 6.1 billion at the turn of the century and...

Op-Ed: Collapseologists are warning humanity that business-as-usual will make the Earth uninhabitable Christopher Ketcham and Jeff Gibbs © (Photo illustration by Nicole Vas/Los Angeles Times; John Antczak/Associated Press) (Photo illustration by Nicole Vas/Los Angeles Times; John Antczak/Associated Press) Hundreds of scientists, writers and academics from 30 countries sounded a warning to humanity in an open letter published in the Guardian in December: Policymakers and the r...

Sue Surkes is The Times of Israels environment reporter. In this photo taken May 19, 2011, a miner works at an illegal mining process in Delta Uno, Madre de Dios, Peru. Mercury released by the mining is slowly poisoning people, plants, animals and fish, scientific studies show (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) The man who invented the term “ecological footprint” treated an Israeli audience on Thursday to a blistering attack on neo-liberalism and human self-delusion that he said was destroying the bi...

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