Article: The Uninhabitable Earth
This article is important. More important than anything. I know a lot of you don’t like reading lengthy articles (damn attention spans, and who has the time, anyway?!) and I
Article: First American settlers cut down millions of trees to change climate
Apparently, early settlers were already trying to geoengineer their climate – with success. Columbus was one of the first explorers who offered proof that deforestation “worked.” In the 2003 study
Article: The Kindness of Beasts
For the philosophically minded. Can animals make decisions based on morality? Everyone who actually lives with animals will answer this question in an instance, without hesitating. There is ample evidence
Article: Silicon Valley comes for our data – All of it!
Social media and digital technology in general is turning our society into dystopia. Companies like amazon demand ever more data, and they are already moving out of the digital sphere
Article: Talk about climate change and you have to talk about agriculture
Yet another story found out that yet another factor was underestimated by climate scientists: soil carbon loss due to agriculture. An estimated 133 billion (!!!) tons of carbon got from
Article: 200 Environmentalists Were Murdered Last Year
Big companies are waging a war against any effort to hold them accountable for what they do the the environment, for Nature, for the future. Environmental activism is increasingly criminalized
Essay: On the personhood of plants
Estimated reading time: 30 min. On the personhood of plants …and our relationship with them David B Lauterwasser “Here I stand in awe, deeply moved by the sheer beauty you
Article: Primitive human lived much more recently
Interesting details emerged about homo naledi, who apparently still lived in South Africa as recent as 200,000 – 300,000 years ago. That means he might have coexisted with homo sapiens.
Essay: Hiking
I want to live in the woods with predators. I don’t want to be the most dangerous animal in the woods when I go into them. I like knowing that
Article: Why We Climb
The long read: The article below is the introduction to the eponymous book “Why We Climb”, which is already on our to-read list. The author, climber Chris Noble, attempts to