Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends Damian Carrington Environment editor@dpcarringtonTue 18 Jan 2022 08.00 GMT Last modified on Wed 19 Jan 2022 05.09 GMT The cocktail of chemical pollution that pervades the planet now threatens the stability of global ecosystems upon which humanity depends,…
The dominance of the capitalist market system on the planet, the consumer society has led to the depletion of the planet’s resources and the pollution of all environments. We pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, which has led to global climate change. We emit dust and toxic gases into the atmosphere, as a result of…
Our Civilisation is Boiling Alive in the Fumes of its Own Waste It was my lovely doctor wife who leaned over to me and said: “Did you know scores of people in Canada are dead because of the heat? Near Vancouver?” Suffering a severe case of brain fog thanks to being in a pandemic for a…
Carbon dioxide is an important metabolic link. The total amount of carbon dioxide in various forms inside a person is 100 — 120 liters, which is approximately 70 times more oxygen reserves in blood and tissues. CO2 has a direct effect on the central nervous system, as it is involved in the regulation of respiration.…
Abstract. Acute and chronic exposure on humans of carbon dioxide contained both in the air of enclosed spaces and in the atmosphere of the Earth are described. The current tendencies of increasing the CO2 content in the external and internal aerial environment of buildings are shown. A forecast of the consequences of an increase in…
At the Paris Agreement in 2015, politicians pledged to limit the global temperature rise from pre-industrial levels to 1.5°C and promised to stop rises in greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and to make rapid reductions in accordance with best available science, to achieve a balance between people’s emissions by sources and removals by…
PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS MUST BE FREED OF THIS THREAT «Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace changeif the alternative is disaster.» Elon Musk For years, European environmentalists have been expressing concern about the state of the Baltic Sea, one of the most problematic regions on Earth. For the past two centuries, its littoral, densely populated, and highly industrialized countries have…
DIE GEFAHR FÜR HEUTIGE UND ZUKÜNFTIGE GENERATIONEN MUSS BESEITIGT WERDEN «Manche Menschen mögen keine Veränderung — Du musst sie allerdings mit offenen Armen empfangen, wenn die Alternative ein Desaster ist»Elon Musk Bereits seit vielen Jahren äußern sich die europäischen Umweltschützer besorgt über den Zustand der Ostsee — eines der problematischsten Meere auf der Erde. In den letzten zwei Jahrhunderten…
International Extraordinary Environmental Council Today we will speak English, because the situation on Earth is so serious that it requires the participation of the entire world community. Climate change is rapidly making the planet uninhabitable. Temperature of the Earth last year reached its record values for three million years, which brought humanity closer to a climate catastrophe. Human-made global warming will kill life on Earth in a few…
K100 (The Committee of the Hundred) Conference results Steps to green Russia 20 March 2021 The modern consumer society has approached that fatal line, where a disastrous abyss of mental and spiritual degradation awaits humankind. Bright and original, harmoniously developed personalities with an independent type of thinking and high life principles disappeared like dinosaurs, and in their place came faceless opportunists — primitive consumers…
Introduction Cosmopolitans hold that morality is a matter of choice, a choosing of principles of actions. The key tenet of cosmopolitanism is that an individual is a citizen of the cosmos not the polis and the inherent source of value comes from universal principles applicable to everyone. Values are formed in a certain context, but ‘thin’ and ‘thick’ values can be distinguished (Appiah 2007). Cosmopolitanism is largely influenced by the Stoic philosophy and Kant’s…
39 countries have ecosystems in a fragile state on more than a third of their land – Malta, Israel, Cyprus, Bahrain and Kazakhstan have the lowest Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services (BES) ranking 55% of global GDP depends on high-functioning BES Major economies in Southeast Asia, Europe and the US exposed to BES decline Swiss Re…
Global Ecology, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, EpicAustralia.org, Adelaide, SA, Australia Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia Instituto de Ecología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, Mexico Department of Science, Technology, and Society,…
The scientific expert community of the Russian Hundred Committee has the honor to present to your attention the concept of overcoming the global ecological crisis, which currently threatens to destroy the entire human civilization. The danger is associated not only with climate disturbance, but, first of all, with a change in the chemical parameters of the environment. Thus, an increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…
Dear Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio, We, environmental activists of Russia, the Ecology Povarovo and Green City movements, K100 (Committee of 100, independent experts), are addressing you as a well-known environmental activist and patron. In 2010, you generously donated $ 1,000,000 to save the Amur tigers, and we admire this act. We are informing you that now the Russian lawmakers in the State Duma of the Russian Federation…
K100 (independent experts) has organized a videoconference of the green movement on the theme «Let the Green Movement enter Federal TV Channels of Russia!»because weconsider that this is the key issue for human survival on planet Earth, because humanity is destroyed by information war, which disorients people and forces them to act in the self-destruction mode. We consider the situation in the country and in the world to be catastrophic. An economy…
From the authors. The article is a selection of facts from the Russian-speaking and English-speaking Internet about the impending climate collapse and attempts to prevent it in all countries of the world except Russia. Climate disaster is coming There is a global ecological catastrophe on the planet that can destroy everything that moves. The climate is abnormal in all parts of the world. The last week of September brought a storm…
«We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.» Thomas Berry As governments stared glass-eyed at what was unfolding in China earlier this year, the fragility of modern life’s interconnectedness was soon to be laid bare by a microscopic organism. Within a couple months of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, airline travel from China had spread…
On August 24, 2014, militias led a column of prisoners of war of the Kiev cabal through the streets of Donetsk. People standing on the sidelines chanted with hatred «Fascists!». And the prisoners understood them. Because they are also Russian. What is happening in Ukraine? Slavic, Russian gene pool is being grinded. And on both sides. And the thousands of dead militia must be added to the thousands of dead «ukrov»…
Anna E. Andersen Angesichts des vorherrschenden und auf exponentielles Wachstum ausgerichteten neoliberalen Wirtschaftssystems, das sich durch soziale Ungerechtigkeit, ökologisch vernichtende Übernutzung der Natur und folgenschweren Krisen für die Menschheit auszeichnet, besteht die Notwendigkeit einer Ausgestaltung von einem lebbaren Lebensstil in der postfossilen Moderne, der verantwortliche und resiliente Handlungsmuster zugrundeliegen müssen. Dafür ist die Perspektive der zivilgesellschaftlichen…
Einleitung Anna E. Andersen Seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg war die Völkerwanderung mit 258 Millionen Menschen noch nie so massiv ausgeprägt wie heute. Die Gründe dafür sind auf den ersten Blick vielfältiger denn je. Sie reichen von der Flucht vor Gewaltkonflikten, Kriegen, politischer, religiöser oder kultureller Verfolgung bis hin zu Naturkatastrophen — Tendenz steigend (UN DESA 2017: 4). Im Nachklang der europäischen…
Patriotic organizations of Russia appeal to the world community The owners of the money who manage the human community, considered it necessary to seriously reduce the population in order to save the rapidly decreasing resources of the Earth for themselves, for their overconsumption, for the unlimited duration of their own lives. The target number to be eliminated is about 6 billion, which is over 80% of the living. So they propose…
By the middle of the twentieth century, man had become so technologically powerful that his actions began to influence the planet as a whole. But to control the consequences of a thoughtless pursuit of excessive material well-being turned out to be higher than his intellectual and spiritual capabilities. One of the results of such human activities is EaTth’s climate change. In recent years, there has been a process of continuous accumulation of heat by the…
Non-working days were declared in Russia by decree of the President of the Russian Federation for the period from 03.30.2020-03.04.2020. 02.02.2020 by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, non-working days were extended until April 30, 2020. Measures to combat the pandemic for civil and business circles are mandatory and lead to a sharp reduction in demand, which leads to a strong blow to the economy.…
People usually do not think about the dangers of airplanes. Many are happy to talk about the dangers of cars, power plants, gas heating and the use of coal, but if they are asked about the role of airplanes, there are no answers. And this is not surprising, because on the websites of airlines the damage caused by flights is described very briefly. Environmental organizations are also…
Anna E. Andersen Einleitung Mit der vor 250 Jahren eingesetzten Dynamik des industriellen Metabolismus ist dem homo sapiens dominium terrae[1] gelungen. Der zivilisationsgeschichtlicher Höhepunkt wurde durch Errungenschaften technologischen Fortschritts erreicht. Neben den zahlreichen Vorzügen neuzeitlicher Entwicklungen ist nun die Menschheit mit den ökologischen Herausforderungen als Folge industrieller und globalisierter Wirtschaftsprozesse konfrontiert, die sich im Klimawandel, systematisierter Umweltzerstörung,…
RUSSIA, March 15 In July 2018, an illegal construction began at the Shies station, which is known throughout the world as the place where the Russian environmental rebellion was born. Inhabitants of the Russian North stood up to defend their land and against the import of Moscow garbage, which was supposed to go there by cars. The Arkhangelsk region and the Komi Republic put up strong resistance…
Entgegen klassischer Wachstumsorthodoxie, die eine globale Ausbreitung prosperierender Wohlstandsgesellschaften mit exponentiellen Wachstumszunahme zu erreichen suchen, plädieren Ökonomen wie Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (La décroissance), Ivan Illich (Selbstbegrenzung), Herman Edward Daly (Steady-state economy) und Niko Paech (Postwachstumsökonomie) für die Verwerfung der ökonomischen Norm der quantitativen Wachstumsexpansion (Löhr 2009: 325; Georgescu-Roegen 2014; Illich 1980; Daly 1999; Paech 2018). Georgescu-Roegen führt das…
Im Zuge der Globalisierung und Digitalisierung, die räumliche und zeitliche Komponenten verdichten, wird die moderne Konsumkultur als Inbegriff des Wohlstands verstanden, der am materiellen Versorgungsniveau der Industriestaaten gemessen und gleichermaßen zum Symbol von Fortschritt, Freiheit und «hoher sozialer Zugehörigkeit» stilisiert wird (Stehr/Adolf 2009: 215). Deshalb ist es nicht überraschend, wenn die sogenannten Schwellenländer wie Indien, Bangladesch oder Brasilien…
In den Weltmeeren schwimmender Abfall aus Kunststoff ist das ‚synthetische Erbe‘ einer rasant wachsenden Industrie, die sich mit der Forschungsarbeit des deutschen Nobelpreisträgers Hermann Staudinger[1] ab Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts fest im Alltagsleben der Menschen etablierte. Die breiten Anwendungsgebiete des Kunststoffs waren vor allem der Plastizität, seinem geringen Eigengewicht und Robustheit zu verdanken. In nahezu allen Lebensbereichen basieren die…