Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

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Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

Article: Stop Joking About Fleeing Earth

This excellent article sums up our thoughts on megalomaniac delusions of colonizing other planets (as if colonization didn’t do enough damage, devastated enough ecosystems and destroyed enough diversity in the

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Article: Could We Reboot Civilization?

Article: Could We Reboot Civilization?

With fossil fuels being used up, would it be possible to build another “advanced” civilization after the collapse of this one? Lewis Dartnell, author of the book The Knowledge: How

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Article: Plants Know They Are Being Eaten

Article: Plants Know They Are Being Eaten

The Business Insider(?) writes about a topic which concerns us a lot: seeing plants as beings, equal but different to ourselves. Again, science found out what primitive animists have known

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Article: Survival of the Friendliest

Article: Survival of the Friendliest

Most people tend to think that evolution is characterized by “survival of the fittest”, which they mistakenly interpret as meaning “survival of the strongest”. What survival of the fittest means,

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Article: How the Social Justice Movement Fuels Corporate Capitalism

Article: How the Social Justice Movement Fuels Corporate Capitalism

This excellent article shows the influence of corporations on the social justice movement, which has been less concerned with class than with race, gender or sexual orientation lately – even

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Article: The lie of the land

Article: The lie of the land

Paul Kingsnorth is at it again: He explains why he, as an environmentalist, voted yes for leaving the EU, and presents excellent arguments to show the hypocrisy of environmentalists being

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Article: Lessons of the Hermit

Article: Lessons of the Hermit

People need wilderness to stay sane. Some people have enough and just go and live there. This is an interesting story about a man who lived in the forest for

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Article: Healthiest hearts in the world found

Article: Healthiest hearts in the world found

Scientists now found the healthiest hearts in the world – of course among a primitive tribe. The Tsimane people of Bolivia are horticulturalists and hunters, who have a relatively high

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Article: Professor Caveman

Article: Professor Caveman

A college teacher who knows what’s good, fun and important: Bill Schindler teaches primitive skills. Interesting to read, seems like it is not that unrealistic to get people interested in

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Article: We can’t vertically farm our way into a techno-utopia

Article: We can’t vertically farm our way into a techno-utopia

We view hydro/aeroponics and vertical farms very skeptically. It is the most unnatural way to grow food, and it is probably the highest form of domestication of plants, depriving them

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