Nature Bats Last with Guy McPherson
Mother Nature bats last — and She’s coming out swinging.
Category: Habitat Loss
The Doors – The End
Music licensed to YouTube by: WMG (on behalf of Elektra 0591); União Brasileira de Compositores, [Wixen] Doors Music Co., Sony ATV Publishing, Warner Chappell, LatinAutor, UBEM, ASCAP, and 24 Music Rights Societies
Fight To Protect Fiji Reef From Chinese Developer
It started with a dream to create a patch of heaven in Fiji, a surfer’s paradise right near one of the world’s most legendary waves, Cloudbreak. Navrin Fox and Woody Jack obtained a 99-year lease on land on Malolo
Climate Change: How Land Use is Accelerating the Crisis
Global Warming and Climate Change have two well known culprits : Energy and Transport. But there are two more co-conspirators contributing catastrophically to the crisis. Those partners are Land Use and Intensive Livestock Farming. A new book by Mike
What Climate Change Means for Our Agriculture and Our Health
A panel of experts discusses climate change and its effects on our agriculture and our health, while also offering insights into how we as individuals can work to limit its negative impacts and create positive change.
Guy McPherson @ Mother Foucault’s Bookstore in Portland
3 May 2019 presentation at Mother Foucault’s Book Shop in Portland, Oregon.
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests
The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as
The Insect Apocalypse
The world’s insect population has declined by three quarters in the last 30 years and many species have become extinct. And it’s all man’s fault. This documentary looks at the dramatic consequences of this hitherto unrecognized catastrophe. The results
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
Bill McKibben discusses his book “Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” Thirty years after McKibben released his groundbreaking book “The End of Nature”, he returns to evaluate the danger today. Even as climate change shrinks
Facing Functional Extinction: Planetary Hospice
I don’t even want to say what I’m gonna say. I want to be clear about this. This is the worst news that I could possibly give if I’m the medical doctor you’re the patient with the terminal diagnosis.
Blue Ocean Event: Game Over?
The consequences of the disappearance of sea ice from the Arctic ocean, however briefly, at the end of a summer melt season some time in the not too distant future, are potentially very ominous for the way we organize our human socioeconomic structures today.
Plastic in Paradise: Galápagos Islands
The Galápagos Islands are supposedly one of the most pristine locations on the planet, but plastic pollution arriving by sea is threatening this unique habitat and wildlife. Leah Green travels to the islands to see how our reliance on