Category Archives: anthropocene

Deforestation and Mining, last gasp of the planet

Posted on December 17, 2023 by borderslynn

Countries that benefit from profits from mining and agricultural produce grown in the deforested Amazon should be prosecuted for Ecocide. But the momentum of destruction goes on to provide a short lived benefit of maintaining quality living standards for those … Continue reading →

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2013 American Perspective on Israel

Posted on December 14, 2023 by borderslynn

These graphs produced by Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/10/01/chapter-5-connection-with-and-attitudes-towards-israel This research was carried out when President Obama was in office. Here is an extract from an article in The Guardian newspaper: Obama and Netanyahu had a testy meeting at the White … Continue reading →

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Ralph Nader’s Perspective on Dec 2023 Israel-Hamas War

Posted on December 10, 2023 by borderslynn

I am reproducing this letter from: https://nader.org/2023/12/08/israeli-governments-war-crimes-enabled-defended-by-biden-congress Israeli Government’s War Crimes – Enabled & Defended by Biden & Congress Share on FacebookFacebook 𝕏Share on TwitterTwitter Share on RedditReddit Share on EmailEmail Share on PrintPrint By Ralph Nader December 8, 2023 … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged collective punishment, conflict, death, destruction, economics of war, human aggression, innocents, international law, land theft, mental illness, murder, occupation, perceptions, perceptions of power, savagery, war, war crimes, weapon sales | Leave a comment

Flags of Convenience

Posted on November 27, 2023 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged billionaire shipping magnates, disasters, ecology, exploitation, flag of convenience, global crime, human trafficking, impoverished countries, maritime law, sanction avoidance, shipping industry, smuggling | Leave a comment

Valuing Human Life

Posted on November 23, 2023 by borderslynn

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 apartheid, culture, discrimination, ethnicity, hierarchies, human value, land rights, land theft, Palestine, religion, respect, South Africa, Tibet, violence | Leave a comment

The Human Meteorite

Posted on November 18, 2023 by borderslynn

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, egypt, elites, farmers, fertile land, fresh water, genocide, human harm, human sabotage, impact of human activity, Iran, mining, nomads, proxy wars, Russia, UAE, ukraine, Wagner, war crimes | Leave a comment

The Eternal Economic Costs of War

Posted on November 14, 2023 by borderslynn

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 | Leave a comment

Humans unwittingly caused the Super Interglacial

Posted on November 9, 2023 by borderslynn

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 →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Anthropocene effect, CO2, emissions, geology, global warming, golden spike, interglacial, orbis spike, overheating world, ppm measurements, super interglacial, too hot for life | Leave a comment

Health and Safety: Renewables

Posted on October 7, 2023 by borderslynn

As some wind farms reach their expiry date they are being dismantled and recycled. At least most of the body of each turbine can be recycled, except the massive blades. https://electrek.co/2023/02/08/wind-turbine-recycle-blades/ Panels of photovoltaic cells on solar farms are also … Continue reading →

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Seaweed Potential: we could nutritionally feed the world using eco circular economy

Posted on October 1, 2023 by borderslynn

I was watching CNNs feature narrated by Zain Asher called Call to Earth,- https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/25/opinions/opinion-vincent-doumeizel-seaweed-scn-climate-c2e-spc-intl/index.html putting forward ideas by Frenchman, Vincent Doumeizel. He is senior Adviser at United Nations Global Compact on Oceans and director for the Food Programme for the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged coastal fishing, detection of toxins, food safety, food security, ocean protection, seaweed, starvation, world food | Leave a comment

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