Thought-provoking images of the direct and incidental effects of global overpopulation & overconsumption. Curated as part of The Guardian’s climate change awareness campaign.
What Does Overconsumption Look Like?
Posted in Babylon
Tagged with: Apocalypse, Climate Change, Consumerism, Photography, Pollution
From: Stream
Tagged with: Apocalypse, Climate Change, Consumerism, Photography, Pollution
From: Stream
Does being Green mean not having kids?
“I (we) don’t have children, at least partly for ecological reasons. That decision is something I reflect upon a lot. I know I’ll feel sad about it in the future, yet news about the state of the world often makes me feel powerfully relieved that I’m not contributing in that way to the overall consumptive mess.”
Reflective blog post from @ChrisTT on the ecological context of becoming a parent, and the original essay by @PaulKingsnorth which provoked this tweet
Facing Up To Reality – and Activating The Great Turning
“It needs to be done in groups so we can hear it from each other. Then you realize that it gives a lie to the isolation we have been conditioned to experience in recent centuries, and especially by this hyper-individualist consumer society. People can graduate from their sense of isolation, into a realization of their inter-existence with all.” Interview with deep ecologist, elder and activist inspiration, Joanna Macy
Posted in Movement
Tagged with: Activism, Apocalypse, Buddhism, Ecology, The Work That Reconnects
From: Stream
Tagged with: Activism, Apocalypse, Buddhism, Ecology, The Work That Reconnects
From: Stream
The Five Biggest Threats to Human Existence
The threat of extinction is not new to humanity. But our era is the first time in which those threats are anthropogenic – they are dangers we have created. Anders Sandberg from the Future of Humanity Institute considers five potential doom scenarios that can enhance appreciation of the present moment… Read the article >>
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