The Science Behind Nature - in Layperson Speak
Colleagues of mine, Marilyn Hempel, editor of the Population Press, and Monty Hempel, Chair of Environmental Studies at the University of Redlands, have just released two important items. The first is a film "The Eighth Billion" about the environmental costs of human population growth. It's short – …
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Once in awhile, I can't ignore writing about significant news about our Earth's woes, which are caused by we humans. The occasion is yesterday's publication of a article Approaching a State Shift in Earth's Biosphere in the journal Nature. Before you stop reading, I do include some positive …
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I heard an amazing speaker last month here in Redlands CA - Peter Raven - a world leader in conservation who TIME Magazine has described as a "Hero for the Planet." Awarded the highest U.S. award for scientific accomplishment (Medal of Science), Raven is the long-time president of the Missouri …
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This may be too political for some but I feel strongly about this: If nature could talk, it would yell “Stop your rate of populating.” I clipped two editorials from The Los Angeles Times on population growth this year: one, an op-ed by Paul Ehrlich (author of the 1968 book “The …
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