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Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
I get a bit of an ick at spirituality when it's so vague, and here I wonder if it's being used as a proxy for something else. Our story of separation from nature is bound up in our anthropocentrism, in fear, in our technological progress and need to dominate nature, forgetting that we're part of it.
#environment#nature
·theguardian.com·
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef and ≈10-fold more intensive than common protein-dense alternatives | PNAS
US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef and ≈10-fold more intensive than common protein-dense alternatives | PNAS
The high resource intensity of industrial beef in high-income economies has prompted growing interest in alternative, potentially lower environment...
Food and SustainabilityFood and Sustainability#beef#carbon#climate#emissions#environment#food
·pnas.org·
US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef and ≈10-fold more intensive than common protein-dense alternatives | PNAS
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.     A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update The signs are everywhere around us: Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since […]
One reason technology and markets are unlikely to prevent overshoot and collapse is that technology and markets are merely tools to serve goals of society as a whole. If society’s implicit goals are to exploit nature, enrich the elites, and ignore the long term, then society will develop technologies and markets that destroy the environment, widen the gap between rich and poor, and optimize for short-term gain. In short, society develops technologies and markets that hasten a collapse instead of preventing it.
Global Systems ThinkingGlobal Systems Thinking#environment#systems#GEOM143
·donellameadows.org·
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update