I did a column for the SMH on the latest Trump indictment. I think it's safe to say the spectacle we are going to see next year will put the last few eventful years to shame.

(also, if you really want something to keep you up at night, check out the last paragraph....)

https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/fasten-your-seatbelts-this-wild-ride-will-trump-anything-we-ve-seen-20230802-p5dt85.html

Today is Earth Overshoot Day. This means that we have already used up all of Earth's resources for the year, and we are now in ecological debt. We will be eating into our natural reserves until the end of 2023. But Earth Overshoot Day doesn't have to get earlier each year.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/02/earth-overshoot-day-humanity-burns-through-planets-yearly-resources-by-2-august

https://www.crowdcube.com/companies/ecologi/pitches/lx9KmZ

#EarthOvershootDay #climate #ClimateChange #environment #sustainability #ecologi

This is not planet Earth as we found it. The world we’ve known all our lives is vanishing in front of our eyes.

Human civilization was built upon the certainty of a stable, predictable climate allowing consistently reliable agriculture producing decade after decade of steady economic growth and allowing huge, thriving coastal cities.

But now we're seeing what happens when we pump a *trillion* tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in only a few decades, when we warm the oceans to levels never seen in human history, and when we threaten the survival of everything that makes our lives possible.

The past is gone. Continue to hope and work for the best, but *prepare* for the worst.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Ocean

The remarkable diversity of life on our planet is in grave danger, with research indicating that nearly *half* of all animal species are currently in decline...
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Over the past several decades, it has become clear that global biodiversity has been declining due to human activities including conversion of habitat, use of pesticides and herbicides, and more recently, climate change. It is not known how many species are extinct due to such activities, but scientists have been trying to track species at highest risk of disappearing.

Now a trio of macro-biologists and life scientists has determined that the modern "sixth mass extinction" event is going to be even worse than prior research has shown.

They found that 48% of species have declining populations, and just 3% have rising populations. They also found evidence showing that 33% of species currently classified as non-threatened are actually spiraling toward extinction.

The team concludes that the planet is approaching a mass extinction event far graver than prior research has suggested.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2023-05-anthropocene-sixth-mass-extinction-event.html

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Biodiversity #Extinction