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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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