In “Extinction’s toll could rival climate change,” scientists at McGill University in Canada point out that extinctions create holes in the fabric of the biosphere. The shredding lace of biodiversity “has the potential to affect plant production just as much as global warming and pollution.” What’s causing extinctions? We are.
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In “1859s “Great Auroral Storm”—the week the Sun touched the earth,” Matthew Lasar writes an evocative history of a past ‘wild card’ event – 1859’s massive solar flare that created auroral storms visible over much of the Earth. If you want a future projection of this scenario, you have no farther …
Channel Four offers us the second installment of Charlie Brooker‘s Black Mirror trilogy of post-modern, far-present, near-future video morality plays. If the first episode scoured across politics, social networks, and news journalism, the second sands away dismissals of reality TV talent contests as entertaining fluff. Related articles Black Mirror: 15 Million Merits, Channel …
New Zealand, new futures, new thinking? Bob Frame, Principle Scientist, Sustainability and Society Landcare Research | Manaaki Whenua (to take care of the land) [summation of a paper just submitted to Futures]: only just now got to integral futures and causal layered analysis, so it’s not passe in New Zealand just yet. …