All articles by Rex Weyler
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Social Inertia: Why is change so hard?
In the face of overwhelming evidence, scientific warnings, existential urgency, and countless examples of ecological disintegration, why are societies worldwide so slow to respond appropriately?
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Memories of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) aboard a Greenpeace ship
In the summer of 1977, American poet, publisher, and innovative book seller, Lawrence Ferlinghetti joined the crew of the Greenpeace ship during the whale campaign and he wrote an historic poem in the ship's dreambook. On 22 February 2021, he died from lung disease, at the age of 101.
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Remembering Dorothy Stowe, 1920-2010
Dorothy Stowe would be 100 today. She passed away peacefully ten years ago in Vancouver, where she co-founded Greenpeace with her husband Irving and other Vancouver pacifists and ecologists.
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Thresholds, cascades, and wicked problems
I remember thinking, in the 1970s, that once people became aware of the ecological crisis -- disappearing species, polluted rivers, poisoned air -- that the necessary changes would be simple.
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Our Entangled World
I found myself pondering deeper questions, such as what it means to identify one species from another, how evolution really works, and how the complexity of soil ecology might inform us about the challenges of human survival and social cohesion.
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Ecological imperatives – we can’t keep growing like this
My hope for the post-pandemic world is that we slow down, seek answers by observing nature, learn about mutual learning, deepen our respect for the wild and unmanaged world, and give Mother Earth herself a permanent seat at our tables.
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Remembering Bob Hunter: Mind Bomber
"Revolution these days is a communications struggle, a war of images." - Bob Hunter, 1941 - 2005
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
There are over a million ecology books in print, and sorting through them might be a challenge. These are some of the essential classics in the field.
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The decline of oil has already begun
We live in the era of peak oil, but just as the modern oil industry attempts to deny the effects of carbon emissions, the industry has also found it convenient to deny that oil is a finite resource that will peak and decline.
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Steven Donziger: The man who stood up to an oil giant, and paid the price
"I did not set out to be an environmental lawyer. I simply agreed to seek a remedy for 30,000 victims for the destruction of their lands and water..."