The best way to motivate people to change their ways to protect wildlife and to reduce the suffering of livestock in factory farming is through the mechanism of capitalism and convenience. Capitalism is destroying the planet, but it can with technology save it too. Nathan …
It seems that if you want to carry out a successful conservation programme to protect elephants on the African continent you’ve got to commit to and declare war on poachers. It also seems to me that no other country in Africa has committed to eradicating …
There appears to be a shocking failure in the conservation of the koala in Australia which has been highlighted by a catastrophe in Cape Bridgewater, Victoria. Am I missing something? Am I getting a clear and correct message from the Internet? The Australians profess to …
COMMENT AND NEWS: The desire by governments in any country to reforest their landscape because it has been deforested for commercial reasons is admirable as it is designed to curb global warming because trees absorb carbon dioxide. Global warming damages nature, wildlife and the lives …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a very disturbing story. It concerns the first EU renewable energy directive. It obliges member states to source 20% of energy from renewable sources by 2020 in the interests of sustainability. As I understand it, the legislation classifies biomass energy …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This story from Australia highlights the battle between the conservation of native wild species on that continent and commerce which often wants to destroy the habitat of the species in order to commercialise property which in this instance is 2,000 ha of …
In a move which only China could make, China’s administrators are introducing a law which states that diners who fail to finish their meal in a restaurant could be fined. President Xi appears to be on a personal crusade to stop food waste in China …
The world’s human population relentlessly rises and there is real concern but thankfully at last people are talking about it. Some people think that the world is already overpopulated by humans and there are questions as to the maximum human population that the planet can …
Allegedly, British supermarkets are complicit in the deforestation of Brazilian rainforest because some of their supply chain products are linked with Brazilian mega-farms which destroy rainforest. And, their guilt appears to be silently admitted because some refuse to confirm or deny any links with the …
