What is our relationship towards the environment and why should we care about it?
In the way we have come to use the automobile, I think we have lost many things - clean air, health, nature, green spaces, and a little bit of our soul. This is my call for us to banish mass private ownership of automobiles from our cities.
We need a change in our culture to enable us to live in an environmentally attuned way, here are my ideas on how we need to change
Here are some of the changes we all need to make in our lives to stop being footsoldiers in the war against the natural world
Introduction We exist within an evolutionary reality; it is hard to overstate the importance of this fact. We must understand what we are to help us become what we can be. Every facet of the being that is comprehending these words is the result of billions of years of the evolutionary process. You are the direct result of a "successful" line of ancestors stretching back at least a billion years, a line that started out with the simplest possible organisms, and now comes to you: an individual capable of intricate creation. This is not to say there was necessarily a...
The animals in the human food system are one of the major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. A lot of different studies have come up with different figures as to what percentage of emissions are attributable to livestock; here I discuss them in the context of the world and Australia specifically.
..in the early 1930s, most people living in cities got around on electric streetcars. Concerned that this wasn't the kind of environment in which they could sell a lot of buses, General Motors, using a series of front companies, began buying streetcar systems, tearing out the tracks and then selling the new, polluting bus systems back to the cities - usually with contracts that prohibited purchase of "any new equipment using fuel or means of propulsion other than gas."...GM was soon joined by Greyhound, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Standard Oil of California (also called Chevrom) and Mack Trucks. In 1949 - after these companies had destroyed more than 100 streetcar systems in more than 45 cities...GM, Chevron and Firestone were convicted of a criminal conspiracy...They were fined $5000 each and the executives who organised the scheme were fined $1 each
The first line of a book I wish to write is "It is almost impossible to overstate how much we live an evolutionary existence". Given such pretensions, I thought reading this classic by Richard Dawkins was a good idea. It showed me whilst at once I had a very good...