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
Article: How to Decolonize the Permaculture Movement
Some good and important (and one misleading) point about permaculture as a movement. The author criticizes that permaculture is sometimes misused as a business (for those $2,000 permaculture courses) and
Article: Evidence of Earliest Human Hunting Found
Apparently there is now evidence supporting the claim that humans started hunting much earlier than previously thought. Archeological findings show that homo erectus already hunted 2 million years ago. This
Article: The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
This article is an exceptionally good example of a short summary of the main arguments against civilization and progress and for primitivism and tribalism. http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race
Infographic: A Truish and Actual History of the World
A great and informative little graphic visualizing the history of modern humans (not the whole world) and the series of ever more complex and profound errors and mistakes we call