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Bookmark Geoengineering Is the Only Solution to Our Climate Calamities | WIRED
Parag Khanna is the author of Connectography (2016) and The Future is Asian (2019). Michael Ferrari is managing partner at Atlas Research Innovations and a senior fellow at the Wharton School.

October 9 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Bookmark Springtime Everywhere — Real Life
“If you look at Google Earth, it’s springtime everywhere,” explains Gopal Shah, Google Earth’s product manager, in a YouTube interview. In a TED talk he boasts that Google Earth is “cloud-free,”…

October 8 2020, 11:13pm | Comments
Bookmark Revolutionary archaeology reveals the deepest possible Anthropocene | Aeon Essays
Humanity’s transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture is one of the most important developments in human and Earth history. Human societies, plant and animal populations, the makeup of the atmosphere,…

October 2 2020, 6:13am | Comments
Bookmark Elon Musk argues that we must put a million people on Mars…
‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in…

August 10 2019, 1:20pm | Comments
Bookmark ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant…
What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition.

February 7 2019, 5:01am | Comments
Bookmark We Should Never Have Called It Earth | The On Being Project
We should never have called it Earth. Three quarters of the planet’s surface is saltwater, and most of it does not lap at tranquil beaches for our amusement. The ocean is…

July 31 2018, 7:35pm | Comments
Bookmark The Rich Are Planning to Leave This Wretched Planet - The New…
Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!

June 24 2018, 2:18am | Comments
Bookmark Do You Know Where Your Healing Crystals Come From? | The New…
After three record-breaking hurricanes hammered America last year, the influential spiritual healer Heather Askinosie wrote a blog post for the Earth.

May 13 2018, 6:17am | Comments
Bookmark Climate change is so dire we need a new kind of science…
Star Trek was one way of dealing with the social anxieties of the 1960s. Since sci-fi mirrors the present, ecological collapse requires a new dystopian fiction Build an imaginary world in…

September 11 2017, 7:32am | Comments
Bookmark The human world is not more fragile now: it always has been…
The end of the world is a growth industry. You can almost feel Armageddon in the air: from survivalist and ‘prepper’ websites (survivopedia.com, doomandbloom.net, prepforshtf.

June 8 2017, 8:01am | Comments
Bookmark A Grand New Theory of Life's Evolution on Earth - The Atlantic
A series of energy revolutions—some natural, some technological—built upon one another to give us our rich, diverse biosphere.

May 20 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Global Hoarding? Human-made Junk Now Outweighs Humans Themselves, Scientists Say | The…
Human-engineered structures and gadgets from cities to cellphones now represent an enormous mass weight of nearly 30 trillion tonnes on the planet, or vastly more than the world’s forests or life…

December 31 2016, 6:38am | Comments
Bookmark Atomic bombs and oil addiction herald Earth’s new epoch: The Anthropocene |…
Just after World War II, when the atomic bombs fell and our thirst for coal and oil became a full-blown addiction, Earth entered the Anthropocene, a new geologic time when humanity’s…

September 7 2016, 11:14am | Comments
Bookmark Does climate change make it immoral to have kids? | Dave Bry…
Bringing children into a disintegrating environment used to be a theoretical fear. Now it’s a very real one The decision whether or not to have a child is one of the…

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Bookmark All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in…
“Human activity is leaving a pervasive and persistent signature on Earth.” So begins one of the more depressing scientific papers I’ve ever read.

April 17 2016, 6:02am | Comments
Metafilter A few seconds closer to Midnight? Today The Doomsday Clock will have its time recalibrated. In 2015 the scientists set the hands to 23.57 - "due to climate change, the modernization of nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, and the problem of nuclear waste." Is the apocalypse…

January 26 2016, 6:31am | Comments
Bookmark The Essence of Peopling
Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. Nouns for human beings – “people” or “person” – conjure in the mind a snapshot of the surface appearance of humans. Using nouns…

January 9 2016, 8:16am | Comments
Bookmark Human impact has pushed Earth into the Anthropocene, scientists say
There is now compelling evidence to show that humanity’s impact on the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans and wildlife has pushed the world into a new geological epoch, according to a group of…

January 8 2016, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and life | New Scientist
The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

October 27 2015, 5:12pm | Comments
Bookmark The Dark Mountain Manifesto: A Brief Review | Post-futurum
“The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are…

July 30 2015, 6:21pm | Comments
Bookmark Anthropocene: On the Substance of a New Idea
In February 2000, Paul J. Crutzen erupted at a scientific conference in Mexico. Five years previously, the Dutch-born atmospheric chemist had been awarded the Nobel Prize for being one of the…

July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark I. Welcome to the Anthropocene!
“In a single lifetime we have grown into a phenomenal global force. We move more sediment and rock annually than all natural processes such as erosion and rivers. We manage three…

July 19 2015, 5:57am | Comments
Bookmark Why don't we just terraform Earth? — Hopes&Fears; — flow "Science"
McKay's research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. McKay is currently involved in planning future Mars missions and has authored a number of studies…

June 11 2015, 2:40am | Comments
Bookmark We are not edging up to a mass extinction – Stewart Brand…
The way the public hears about conservation issues is nearly always in the mode of ‘[Beloved Animal] Threatened With Extinction’. That makes for electrifying headlines, but it misdirects concern. The loss…

April 23 2015, 12:26am | Comments
Bookmark Cleaning Up “The World’s Highest Junkyard” | GOOD
A lot has changed since Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary first scaled the freezing peaks of Mount Everest in 1953. For one thing, attempting to summit Everest, though still perilous, has…

April 1 2015, 3:46pm | Comments
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February 10 2015, 4:22am | Comments
Bookmark Sign in to read: Plastic Age: How it's reshaping rocks, oceans and…
The ultimate fate of waste plastic is hazy – but we know future geologists will find traces of a fleeting era written in the stones. Welcome to the Plasticene ONE million…

February 2 2015, 11:13am | Comments
Bookmark The Elon Musk interview on Mars colonisation – Ross Andersen – Aeon
‘Fuck Earth!’ Elon Musk said to me, laughing. ‘Who cares about Earth?’ We were sitting in his cubicle, in the front corner of a large open-plan office at SpaceX headquarters in…

October 8 2014, 1:54am | Comments
Bookmark Journey to the Centre of Google Earth - Simon Sellars
This essay was commissioned by Anne Hilde Neset for Only Connect Festival Of Sound 2014: J.G. Ballard. It was published in the Only Connect catalogue, May 2014. Thank you to NyMusikk…

June 23 2014, 4:53am | Comments
Bookmark It’s the End of the World as We Know It . .…
Late one night last August, on the chalk downlands of southern England, Paul Kingsnorth stood in a field beside an old-growth forest, two yurts and a composting toilet. Kingsnorth is 41,…

May 1 2014, 1:40pm | Comments
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April 28 2014, 8:32am | Comments
Bookmark Google’s Earth
“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments

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