Sir David Attenborough says on his website that, “All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people, and harder – and ultimately impossible – to solve with ever more people.” He isn’t the only one who thinks that. But Melanie Phillips writing in The Times today disagrees with him. She says that, “The …
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The blowing up of part of the Nova Kakhovka dam during the Ukraine war, which formed the Kakhovskyi reservoir – one of the largest in Europe – was an act of ecocide. The Sunday Times reports on it in their article, “The drowned earth strategy is ancient but it has a modern name – ecocide”. …
When people think of pollinators they normally think of bees. That’s because we enjoy seeing them in the daytime pollinating plants. But bees are under stress from insecticides and industrial farming. The numbers are falling. Without the pollination of bees all the plants that they pollinate would be lost. The BBC says that a world …
What would happen without pollinators? The humble moth is an unsung pollinating hero! Read More »
Here is the tweet which asks the above question in an image: The answer apparently, according to Mike Gordon, who commented on the picture is: Because most farm animals can eat the 80% of inedible by-products from crop waste, food wate, and grazing. Farm animals, especially ruminant animals, can eat a lot of things we …
How the f**k can we feed 60 billion farm animals but not 7.9 billion humans? Read More »
There is a excellent letter in The Times today (3rd Jan, 2023) written by Brian Aldred. He is not, as far as I know, anybody special in terms of celebrity but a person like you and me who is concerned about human population growth and how humans are pushing wild animals off the planet metaphorically …
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