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Is it prudent that the literal seeds of global food production should rest in the hands of fewer than five American companies, to sell or withhold as they see fit?
Hope Jahren • The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Catch shares, tradable bycatch credits, and
The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?
Rachel Carson had never seen the sea herself, she threw herself into its study. She studied biology, then zoology, eventually taking a job as a writer for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. All of this was incredibly rare for a young woman in the 1920s and ’30s, but Carson’s trajectory was a demonstration of the expansive potential of curiosity.
inkl • What It Would Take to See the World Completely Differently
Peter Montague refers in his previously cited 1999 article to the level of awareness of the problem that existed in the 1970s, “Technical mastery of natural forces was leading not to safety and well being, but to a careless and accelerating dispersal of dangerous poisons into the biosphere with consequences impossible to predict.”
Dawn Lester • What Really Makes You Ill?: Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Disease Is Wrong
The Sense of Wonder
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Rachel Carson: “Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”
315 / Designing out recklessness
More broadly, public planetary data infrastructures would enable the inhabitants of Earth to know their world. Knowledge about one’s environment should be a basic human right. Imagine a world where you could know what’s in your air, what’s in your drinking water, what species are in the forest near you and how much carbon it’s storing, or what the... See more