Tagged: collapse

From Restoration to Reconciliation: Belief 8 – Our ecosystems are going to collapse - So Shoot Me

Jamie Steer • Dec 21, 2018 •

• collapse,
• ecosystem,
• introduced species,
• invasive species,
• novel ecosystems,
• restoration

Here are more comments from my interview with Kim Hill: ‘…each species we lose puts the entire ecosystem at risk of collapse’  ‘Without the species that are adapted to these native environments a whole ecosystem will eventually collapse’ Some people say that our ecosystems are going to collapse under the weight of introductions, that our ecosystems are essentially going … Read More

Climate and the rise and fall of civilisations: a lesson from the past - Guest Work

Guest Author • Dec 11, 2015 •

• carbon,
• civilisations,
• climate change,
• co2,
• collapse,
• COP21,
• historic climate change,
• ice ages,
• jared diamond,
• paris climate summit

Andrew Glikson, Australian National University 2015 will likely be the hottest year on record, beating the previous record set only in 2014. It is also likely to be the first year the global average temperature reaches 1℃ above pre-industrial temperatures (measured from 1880 – 1899). Global warming is raising temperatures, and this year’s El Niño … Read More

The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View From The Future - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • Jul 03, 2014 •

• book review,
• Book reviews,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• collapse,
• Erik Conway,
• Oreskes

Science historians Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, co-authors of the acclaimed Merchants of Doubt, have joined forces again to produce a striking short fictional work The Collapse Of Western Civilization: A view From The Future. It purports to be an essay written by a Chinese historian three hundred years after the collapse of western civilisation […] … Read More

2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • May 10, 2012 •

• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Climate Science,
• Club of Rome,
• collapse,
• population,
• Sustainability

The Club of Rome has launched a new report, 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years, written by Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors 40 years ago of their famous publication Limits to Growth. I’ve been listening to Randers speaking at the launch this week at Rotterdam. It’s a striking address, delivered with [...] … Read More