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Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
Orion Magazine - Deep Intellect
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Nuclear Winter
Carl Sagan discusses the catastrophic global consequences of nuclear war, including nuclear winter, mass casualties, ecological collapse, and the potential extinction of humanity, emphasizing the urgent need for global nuclear disarmament.
sciencefriday.comThis suggests a general operating principle similar to the Leopoldian land ethic, often summarized as “what’s good is what’s good for the land.” In our current situation, the phrase can be usefully reworded as “what’s good is what’s good for the biosphere.” In light of that principle, many efficiencies are quickly seen to be profoundly destructive,
... See moreKim Stanley Robinson • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
Pister collected all the Owens pupfish left at Fish Slough, with the intention of moving them to a nearby spring. They fit into two buckets. “I distinctly remember being scared to death,” he would later write. “I had walked perhaps fifty yards when I realized that I literally held within my hands the existence of an entire vertebrate species.” Pist
... See moreElizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
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