A Compassionate Revolution
By Bronwyn Slater In October 2018 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a special report on the impact of global warming of 1.5°C. The report, which was the result of 3 years of research, says that going past 1.5°C would be highly detrimental to the planet’s liveability, and that at the …
Edited by James O’Donovan from Wikipedia and ‘Carbon Yoga’ by Sailesh Rao Planetary boundaries (see wikipedia) are an attempt to develop a set of indicators to monitor the health of the global planetary system and to provide governments timely information on what activities need to stop or be changed in order to keep …
In this article James O’Donovan shows how and why Animal Agriculture is the key cause of Climate Change and Veganism can reforest vast areas of land and completely reverse climate change. This article is a bit technical but even if you are not technically minded all you need is addition, multiplication and a little …
Sailesh Rao of Climate Healers imagines a different future where our mission is to heal the Earth’s climate and to accomplish that, we ask ground-breaking questions such as: What would happen to the Earth’s climate if the whole world goes vegan? How can we organize human societies using the internet so that sustainability and equality …
By Keith Akers of The Compassionate Spirit Last December, Sailesh Rao and two of his colleagues made a presentation to the American Geophysical Union, entitled “The Lifestyle Carbon Dividend.” The key point of this paper was that by simply stopping livestock agriculture, we could sequester a lot of carbon and thereby decrease the carbon …
A New report from the Food and Climate Change Research Network finds grass-fed beef is “in no way a climate solution” By Dr. Jennifer Molidor Can you have your beef and eat it too? For years those of us at the Center for Biological Diversity have been saying no… not if you care …
Parisian officials have announced plans to completely phase out usage of fossil fuel-powered cars by 2030. The entire nation will follow with its own restriction in 2040. The Future of Fuel Soon, drivers will only have the option of using electric cars in Paris as authorities in the French capital have announced plans to …
How can we eat to combat disease and greenhouse gas emissions at the same time? By Dr. Michael Greger at nutritionfacts.org One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world commented that climate change represents the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, and currently, chronic diseases are, by far, the leading …
With so much evidence showing that climate change is real, Frank Armstrong wonders why some people are still in denial. A recent encounter with a self-identifying ‘scientist’ who revealed himself to be a climate change-sceptic left me troubled. I challenged him that the vast majority of climate scientists assert that humans are responsible but …
In the run-up to December’s Climate Conference in Paris, James O’Donovan asks if any real change has come about as the result of these climate summits. Have they really been successful? This December more than 190 governments will meet in Paris to try to agree a new global agreement to reduce global green house …