Earth Meanders

• We Speak for Gaia, Deal with It

  Number of comments: 14
  Earth revolutionaries speaking ecological truth -- the Earth is dying and there is just time to save her and us -- and that are willing to take action to ensure those destroying being are stopped, are our best hope for survival
  
  
  There are very few selflessly telling truth [...]
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  Posted: July 10, 2008, 10:14pm EDT
  

• New Earth Rising: Hope for a New Global Dream

  Number of comments: 19
  Sufficient and workable individual and social solutions exist for the wide range of ecological, economic, social and personal ills facing the biosphere and humanity; and together they could herald in a new era of global ecological sustainability
  
  
  Long predicted Earth crises -- including climate change, water shortages, abject [...]
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  Posted: May 12, 2008, 12:53am EDT
  by Dr. Glen Barry

• God Pollution

  Number of comments: 63
  Irrational belief in ghosts and gods detracts from ecological and evolutionary science based solutions required to save creation
  
  
  I am an atheist. And I believe strongly that irrational worship of invisible ghosts and absent gods impedes humanity from taking responsibility for and fashioning a just, peaceful, equitable and [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2008, 10:14pm EDT
  by Dr. Glen Barry

• Coming Ecological Collapse: Failing Ecosystems the Mother of All Bubbles

  Number of comments: 39
  The converging mortgage, financial, food, fuel and climate crises are all symptoms of a massive global ecological bubble
  
  
  Ecological overshoot whereby humanity exceeds the Earth's carrying capacity is the mother of all "bubbles". Within the current sub-prime mortgage and financial bubbles, and food and energy price increases, we [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 2:13pm EDT
  

• How Can the Earth Win If Global Citizens Do Not Seek Ecological Truth and Sufficient Action?

  Number of comments: 24
  Sustaining biodiversity, climate, and the biosphere requires protest to achieve sufficient policies based upon ecological science; and all of us including the environment movement taking risks while committing to massive social change
  
  
  As the fourth anniversary of my Earth Meanders personal ecological essays approaches, I thought it appropriate [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2008, 1:02pm EDT
  

• Burning Forests to Feed Cars

  Number of comments: 12
  The Ecological Madness of Biofuels, Take Two
  
  How cellulosic ethanol will fail, exacerbate the global forest and climate crises, and why it must be rejected along with other quick fixes in favor of an environmental sufficiency agenda
  
  
  If you thought burning food for fuel -- agrofuels -- [...]
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  Posted: March 15, 2008, 4:07am EDT
  

• Economic Collapse and Global Ecology

  Number of comments: 34
  Given widespread failure to pursue policies sufficient to reverse deterioration of the biosphere and avoid ecological collapse, the best we can hope for may be that the growth-based economic system crashes sooner rather than later
  
  
  Humanity and the Earth are faced with an enormous conundrum -- sufficient climate [...]
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  Posted: January 12, 2008, 10:36am EST
  

• Time to Stop the Greenwashing

  Number of comments: 22
  Global ecological sustainability depends upon identifying and acting upon ambitious, sufficient eco-policies now; and rejecting misleading, exploitative and inadequate reformist pandering
  
  
  The Earth and all species including humans are threatened with imminent ecological ruin. You should be afraid, very afraid. Yet real hope remains that fundamental social change [...]
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  Posted: January 04, 2008, 10:22am EST
  

• Happy Holidaze Earth Scream

  Number of comments: 36
  In the spirit of pointing out year-end holidays epitomize the forces killing the Earth, let me share this vulgarity laced appraisal of the state of being
  
  
  Earth Love
  
  Wondering at the smell of wet Earth as the sun warms the tent. In awe and a bit frightened [...]
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  Posted: December 20, 2007, 10:18am EST
  

• Kyoto's Bali Successor May Be Little More Than a Carbon and Rainforest Market

  Number of comments: 25
  Paying nations to be green diverts attention from necessary resolute actions based upon what is right and sufficient to minimize climate change
  
  
  I have been an obstinate supporter of the Kyoto process; whose weaknesses, including non-universal participation and inadequate emission targets, are well known. Short of revolution, I [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2007, 4:51pm EST
  

• Poverty Sucks, the Earth and the Soul

  Number of comments: 20
  To avoid run-away abrupt climate change, all nations must embrace equitable, ambitious and urgent emission cuts in Bali
  
  
  The rich are richer and the poor, poorer -- even as the Earth they share shrivels and dies. Billions live a life of misery on a dollar or two a [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2007, 7:20pm EST
  

• Exclude Ancient Forest Logging Supporters from Holiday Gift List

  Number of comments: 13
  Environmental groups embracing certified logging of primary and old-growth forests threaten climate, biodiversity, ecosystems, sustainability and humanity -- stop giving them money
  
  
  What do Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Greenpeace (GP) and WWF have in common? Each support first time, industrial logging of ancient rainforests certified by the Forest [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2007, 9:30pm EST
  

• Never, Ever, Ever, Ever Give Up on Gaia

  Number of comments: 39
  It is late, despair high; yet ambitious policies emphasizing sacrifice and preparation can keep the Earth from dying
  
  
  Human caused ecosystem destruction has progressed well beyond the Earth's carrying capacity -- its ability to provide goods and services, and to regenerate. Global heating is occurring at a rate [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2007, 6:39pm EDT
  

• Deep Ambivalence re: Nuclear Energy and Clean Coal as Climate Change Responses

  Number of comments: 29
  They buy time for conspicuous energy consumption; yet are untested and far off, may cause further environmental damage and consolidate global ecological overshoot
  
  
  These essays have been silent on proposals for a nuclear energy revival and clean coal carbon sequestration as climate change solutions. I remain deeply uncertain [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 12:23pm EDT
  

• The Pain of Caring Too Much about the Earth's Death

  Number of comments: 115
  I am unwilling and unable to sit by stoically and impassively as the Earth, her creatures and humanity suffer and die; no matter how much it hurts emotionally, and you should not either
  
  
  The Earth is dying and it makes me feel sad. Not just a bit tense [...]
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  Posted: October 11, 2007, 1:41pm EDT
  

• The Folly, Egoism and Dangers of Climate Geo-Engineering

  Number of comments: 19
  Is humanity so resistant to change that we will tamper with the biosphere's workings to construct a "Frankensphere"; rather than reducing population, consumption and emissions?
  
  
  It is being widely suggested that humanity can "geo-engineer" a global solution to climate change; that is, modify the Earth's biosphere at a [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2007, 12:01am EDT
  

• Earth Calls for Radical Social Change and Spiritual Transformation

  Number of comments: 14
  The population bomb has burst, the climate and biosphere are in tatters, and tyrannical, militaristic governments rule; yet there remains a path to global ecological sustainability
  
  
  The Earth is a living organism, which some call Gaia. Humanity is taking apart Gaia's life support systems in an orgy of [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2007, 1:35am EDT
  

• Now Is Time for Non-Violent Earth Revolution

  Number of comments: 20
  That begins by stopping ancient forest logging, ending burning of coal and reducing aviation
  
  
  There are times in human history where obligations to truth, humanity and being take precedent over personal safety, consumption and comfort. Now is one such moment. The time has come for non-violent, direct societal [...]
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  Posted: September 06, 2007, 2:34pm EDT
  

• The Depauperate World of 2049

  Number of comments: 31
  And what an equitable, just and ecologically sustainable society will look like
  
  The Earth, human society and those species with who we share creation are on a crash course with global ecological collapse characterized by horrific death and destruction. Human populations have exploded and in sum have become a [...]
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  Posted: August 22, 2007, 12:02pm EDT
  

• If Climate Change and Global Ecology Are Really So Bad, Where Is the Urgency?

  Number of comments: 37
  Hate to say it, but I told you so. Global ecological collapse is upon us and the human family is entering a Hobbesian struggle for survival of the Earth and all her species including humans. Even mainstream leaders tell us we have a decade to act before utter ecological ruin [...]
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  Posted: August 10, 2007, 2:52am EDT
  

• Lavish Celebrities No Climate Example

  Number of comments: 40
  After the climate concerts, urging Gore to change focus to the grassroots, and equitably reducing consumption
  
  Humanity's obsession with celebrity, status and wealth is a major component of the disease killing the Earth and her species including humans. I am concerned with the direction Al Gore, as the self-appointed [...]
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  Posted: July 17, 2007, 2:49pm EDT
  

• Ecology: the Radical Science

  Number of comments: 11
  And the key to the Earth's and your survival
  
  Awareness of humanity's utter dependence upon ecosystems and the biosphere, found in the relatively new discipline of modern ecology, has coincided with a period of unprecedented ecological destruction.
  
  
  Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each [...]
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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 5:26am EDT
  

• Burning the Planet to Fill Your Fuel Tank

  Number of comments: 19
  Cellulosic ethanol another chimerical climate "solution" that furthers biological homogenization and ecological collapse
  
  Humanity's epitaph may well read "Much Potential, but Cut and Burnt Themselves to Death". Nearly every environmental crisis can be traced to burning hydrocarbons for energy, and cutting and clearing vegetation for a variety of reasons. [...]
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  Posted: June 19, 2007, 11:16pm EDT
  

• Continental Scale Ecological Collapse

  Number of comments: 20
  The Earth is entering a new phase in its human caused decline. We are witnessing the advance edge of bioregional and continental scale ecological collapse -- the final stage of environmental decline before global ecological collapse. For millennia human caused ecosystem loss and decline has destroyed plant communities and devastated [...]
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  Posted: May 16, 2007, 11:29pm EDT
  

• It's Not Just Climate Change

  Number of comments: 23
  That is killing the Earth and your children's future
  
  Climate change is the collapse of the global atmospheric system's processes and patterns and represents a massive environmental challenge to maintaining a habitable Earth. Yet climate is but one of several planetary scale ecological crises that threaten existence and are [...]
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  Posted: April 08, 2007, 12:18am EDT
  

• Climate Policy Solutions that Save the Planet

  Number of comments: 20
  Responses must be sufficient, scientifically based, rapidly pursued, address underlying causes, and go beyond seeking to maintain conspicuous excessive consumption by the rich
  
  
  OK, Climate Change Is Real, So Should We All Consume Like Movie Stars?
  
  It has been said that Oscar wins for "An Inconvenient Truth" [...]
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  Posted: February 28, 2007, 10:36am EST
  

• Celebrity Will Not Save the Earth

  Number of comments: 23
  Glamorous, jet-set "ecorazzi" selling easy techno-fixes the opposite of the global grassroots, profound social change required to achieve global ecological sustainability
  
  
  The dire ecological crises wracking the planet are trivialized by celebrities pontificating about climate change and species loss that know little more about the subject than the [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2007, 7:26am EST
  

• Bush, Cronies and Soldiers Are War Criminals

  Number of comments: 24
  An immoral, doltish President leads his people in criminal military adventurism and climate change policy obstruction
  
  
  It has been awhile since I have written of Bush's war and climate criminality. But President Putin of Russia of all people recently spoke most truthfully of America's diminished respect in the [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2007, 9:48am EST
  

• On an Environmentally Collapsing, Poverty Racked Planet, the Disease that is Economic Growth

  Number of comments: 23
  Environmental sustainability and abject poverty are the issues of our and all time, the resolution of which will either save the Earth and relatively civilized society, or continued neglect lead to global ecological and social collapse. The big lies underlying ecological crises and wealth inequities are that economic growth will [...]
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  Posted: February 08, 2007, 9:20am EST
  

• Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales

  Number of comments: 16
  The history of global heating has largely been written by coal and forest loss, now wrongly hailed as climate change solutions
  
  
  Two of the biggest, most dangerous lies being promoted in response to global warming are that clean coal exists and the world's forests are adequate to provide [...]
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  Posted: January 21, 2007, 6:53am EST
  

• Climate Change Denial

  Number of comments: 35
  "Wacky Weather" is Deadly Global Heating
  
  As of 2007 the Earth System has already undergone profound global change of which global heating is the most immediately evident profound impact. It is getting hot, and it is happening fast. Many leading scientists tell us we have 10 years at most [...]
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  Posted: January 07, 2007, 9:19am EST
  

• Earth Prophecy

  And the way out
  
  Imagine the panic as Americans and others in the world that are ecologically ignorant and isolated realize food does not come from grocery stores but from healthy agro-ecosystems with dependable climatic patterns and rich soil. That water does not come from the tap, but from [...]
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  Posted: December 23, 2006, 9:36am EST
  

• Ancient Forest Rage

  Sixty million year old rainforests are the face of God, no more ancient forest logging
  
  Nowhere is the twisted face of Gaia's pain more evident than in the wreckage of the Earth's ancient forests that have been "sustainably" logged. As for those doing and apologizing for the logging, I [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2006, 10:12pm EST
  

• Fundamentalist Paganism and Green Libertarianism

  Humanity desperately needs different ecologically based spiritual and political systems to maximize the possibility of the Earth and humanity surviving the torrent of industrial pollutants emanating from humans breeding like bunnies. Dramatic social, political and spiritual change centered upon green principles will be required if humankind and our brother and [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2006, 3:23pm EDT
  

• Give Peace a Dance

  Righting Injustice and Recognizing the Human Family
  
  Vote Peace and to Establish War Crimes Truth Commission
  
  Under President Bush a terrible criminal tragedy is being transformed into World War IV. It need not have been. Al Qaeda never enjoyed great popularity until the incautious invasion of Iraq that [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2006, 7:41pm EDT
  

• The Earth and Humanity Can and Will Be Saved by You

  I had decided not to write another Earth Meander until I had
  something positive to say. Enough of wallowing in despair that
  the Earth is dying as kooky fundamentalists wage war. The
  environmental sustainability movement deserves and needs a dose
  of healthy skeptical optimism. Until the [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2006, 11:27am EDT
  

• Right Wing Religious Fundamentalists Senselessly Destroying the Earth

  "End Time" self-fulfilling prophecy stops progress to save the Planet and advance humanity
  
  Right wing fundamentalist christian religious fanatics are deranged and are killing the Earth. They think it is ok because they twist the words of their holy babble to say it is meant to happen, indeed pre-ordained, [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2006, 12:14pm EDT
  

• Earth Treatise: Living for the Earth

  Love, Protect, Restore and Kill?! for Gaia
  
  Earth Meanders by Dr. Glen Barry
  http://earthmeanders.blogspot.com/
  June 7, 2006
  
  The Earth is both sacred and dying. There is no better way to live your life than committing to serving Gaia. As the sum total of the global ecosystem and all [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2006, 12:29pm EDT