All articles by Rex Weyler
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Failed Economics
For the ecosystem at large, neo-classical economics serves as a rationalisation for plunder.
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Starving Seabirds
"Albatross are particularly vulnerable to longline hooks and and trawling nets."
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The youth have seen enough
"You only talk about moving forward with the same bad ideas that got us into this mess, even when the only sensible thing to do is pull the emergency brake."
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Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?
"Oil industry disinformation has unnecessarily confused the biophysical fact of peak oil."
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Sand depletion
The immense growth of human infrastructure -- booming cities, roads, concrete, glass, electronics, and shale gas fracking -- now requires such a massive extraction of sand and gravel.
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Minimalism
“It all started with a lingering discontent,” explain Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, who post the on-line “Minimalists” podcasts. “Nearly a decade ago, while approaching age 30, we had…
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Hothouse Earth
The Hothouse Earth study warns that with a heating of 3 or 4°C, Earth's "self-reinforcing feedbacks" -- wildfires, methane release, forest dieback, and so forth -- can drive the temperature even higher.
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How can we restore Earth’s nutrient cycles?
Humanity has already breached four of the nine ecological boundaries outlined in 2009 by Johan Rockström: climate change, loss of biodiversity, land-system change, and nutrient cycles.
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How much of Earth’s biomass is affected by humans?
To slow or reverse this erosion of biodiversity, humanity must slow its harvest of the natural biosphere and cease the destruction, depletion, and conversion of wild habitats.
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What can we do?
At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own hedge fund on Wall Street…