Climate Crisis

"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.

In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Revolution began

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57 companies are responsible for 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions since 2016.

These companies include fossil fuel giants like Chevron, Shell, and BP, who have been raking in record profits.

The profits of Big Oil should not be more important than the future of our planet.

One of the major lessons we learn from the unique complexity of life is the following: the only thing we can always expect when manipulating the living world is that there will be unexpected consequences. By definition, those consequences are rarely aligned with the initial goal of our intervention. Climate change, biodiversity loss, and our... See more

At the core of most of our cocoons are the concepts and frameworks that have been dictated by the sense that capitalism (in it’s more colloquial broader sense that includes deregulation, imperialism and globalization) is the only viable economic and political system. This has been termed a “monomyth” - a singular myth that like a monoculture

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Zum Klimawandel trägt jeder Mensch bei - Superreiche aber in besonderem Maße. Nach Berechnungen der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam hat das reichste Prozent der Menschen bereits jetzt sein CO2-Budget für das gesamte Jahr verbraucht.

Zehn Tage nach Jahresbeginn hat das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung nach Darstellung von Oxfam seinen fairen Anteil an... See more