Tag: ecology
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The coronavirus is the climate emergency is air pollution is…
Labels like “global overheating” or “the climate crisis” are imprecise and divert our attention from the scale, complexity, and speed of the ecological/economic/political crisis. There are at least four broad...
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Very quiet sounds
Chittagong is a raucous tumult. The racket is penetrating and ceaseless: horns, screams, brakes, creaking ceiling fans, the tinnital whine of tube lights, the grind of suffering transmissions, rickshaw bells,...
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The myth of sustainability
In recent conversations I have heard the word ‘sustainable’ used as an unthinking excuse, an adequate gesture of compensation for violent and massive environmental destruction, one too many times. Most...
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Two models for ecotourism in Danzhai
For the past three years I have been fortunate to consult with the Guizhou government on questions of local development and the proper stewardship of biocultural diversity. This has usually...
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An adequate revolution: Copernicus or Kepler?
The shift we are presently seeing in the sciences of life, society and consciousness are happening against resistance imposed by entrenched world views. If we are to move past the...