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Monthly Archives: November 2023
Flags of Convenience
About 90% of the world’s commodities and goods are transported by sea through the shipping industry. Supplementary regulations and current international law that stipulates that any maritime vessel carrying paying passengers or cargo must be registered to a country. About 40 … Continue reading
Valuing Human Life
As humans became more sophisticated after thousands of years evolving, they became conquerors of land when explorers sailed to new lands and staked rights to it in the name of their monarchs. Vasco da Gama was one such explorer trying … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged religion, culture, South Africa, violence, Palestine, land rights, respect, discrimination, human value, apartheid, hierarchies, ethnicity, land theft, Tibet
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The Human Meteorite
Back in 2010, this article about Sudan explained the different viewpoints of nomadic herders and Arab farmers, their belief systems about land use brought them into conflict. Of the five mass extinctions we described in Chapter 2, probably the most … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged Africans, Anthropocene theory, arabs, climate change, conflict, Darfur, diamonds, drought, elites, farmers, fertile land, fresh water, genocide, human harm, human sabotage, impact of human activity, mining, nomads, proxy wars, war crimes
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The Eternal Economic Costs of War
Look back in recorded history and see the financial costs of war. While some are in a position to profit, most are broken nations. The domino effect was summarized neatly for the resulting economic cost to many of WW1 in … Continue reading
Posted in anthropocene
Tagged conflict, devastation, diversity loss, do no harm, economics, empathy, extinction, fear, finite resources, Maslow, survival, war, WW1, WW2
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Humans unwittingly caused the Super Interglacial
I do recommend you read The Human Planet: How we Created the Anthropocene as I find it enthralling. But anyone who has read any of my blogs will understand my enthusiasm for this material so well put together to provide … Continue reading
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