Tag Archives: survival

Climate change, sea levels rising, countries sinking

Posted on August 29, 2025 by borderslynn

In past blogs I have written about land which sank beneath the oceans after the Ice Age melt began over 10,000 years ago. Now the world knows the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps are melting and sea levels are rising … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Arctic melt, Boreal Forest, burn scars, climate change evidence, datacenters, drought, emissions, energy production, fooding, fossil fuels, glacier melt, human activity induced apocalyptic fires, human suffering, indigenous peoples, infrastructure destruction, loss of home, methane, migration, natural cycke of fires, permafrost melt, petroleum industry, pristine land, recognition of harm, responsibility, sea level rises, shrinking resources, sinking land, sovereignty, submerged land, survival, survival of humanity, threat, wildfires | Leave a comment

Survivors who lived in a large land mass

Posted on April 26, 2025 by borderslynn

Since the US is now running a tarrif trade war, mostly targeting China, it has been said that Xi told his people “eat bitterness” and that was interpreted as “absorb the pain”. It is well known, throughout the 5000 year … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged 1930s to 1940s, 2014 to present day, children, Gulag, law against 'others', Memorial (Russian civil rights group), orphans, Russia, Soviet Russia, Stalin, survival, trauma, ukraine, war | 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

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by borderslynn

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in 1937 following catastrophic dust storms and flooding in the United States. He was right. Soil deserves respect. A medium for plant growth, a source of nutrients, a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, animals, carbon capture, climate change, fertilizer, food security, insects, land protection, life, organic, soil, survival | Leave a comment

Clothing our nakedness.

Posted on November 7, 2021 by borderslynn

Any other form of life is perfectly fitted to its environment. We were probably at our best when our bodies were covered in fur and we lived in jungle terrain. Since we lost our fur, we have had to clothe … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged animal diversity, anthropocene, clothing, contamination of the planet, exploiting Nature, fossil fuels, fur, guardians of the earth, habitat, indigenous peoples, petroleum, plastic, rainforest, survival, wildlife extinction | Leave a comment

Habitat, genetics and us

Posted on June 19, 2018 by borderslynn

As the last Ice Age melts at a fast pace, the upside of that news is that researchers are finding more and more ancient bones, skeletons and artefacts which were previously locked under permafrost. The knowledge accumulating about the kind … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged adaptation, archaic humans, caves, environment, fire uses, food diversity, ice age, mammoth, Siberia, skill development, survival | Leave a comment

Movement of People of the African Sahara

Posted on August 13, 2017 by borderslynn

I have been particularly interested in finding out why people migrated out of Africa, but there is also the story of those who remained. The adaptable indigenous human, always so ingenious in the most hostile environments. Yet becoming part of … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged Africa, aquifer, arabian, desert, ice age, megalithic, migration, nomads, paleolithic, rainfall, rivers, sahara, survival, water, weather patterns | Leave a comment