Essay: On the personhood of plants

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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

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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

Article: Megafaunal extinctions driven by too much moisture

In contrast to popular opinion, prehistoric hunters didn’t mindlessly hunt megafauna into extinction. Archeologists now found out that many bigger animals went extinct due to a rapid change in climate

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Article: Climate change is altering global air currents – increasing droughts, heatwaves and floods

Climate change has impacted yet another planetary system, causing even more droughts, heatwaves and floods in its course of spindling downwards the path of the sixth mass extinction event –

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Article: Combined effect of brighter sun and CO₂ emissions leads to further warming

It seems like every week scientists find a new aspect about climate change that was either underestimated, overlooked, not included, forgotten, or ignored. It is safe to say that even

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Article: Humans could be among the victims of sixth ‘mass extinction’

It is of utmost importance that every human on this planet understands how serious our impact on the global ecosystem really is. We will all experience massive disruptive changes in

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Book : Six Degrees

Mark Lynas’ book on climate change and its effects is fundamental for understanding just how important it really is to change things fast. He went through the work of viewing

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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

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: 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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