The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is currently approaching 430 parts per million. The last time there was this level of CO2 in the atmosphere was during the Oligocene era, 23 to 33 million years ago, eons before humanity appeared on Earth. During that era, global average temperatures were 5 to 7 degrees Centigrade above our current historical average. It’s … Continue reading →
Capitalism is proudly touted by its adherents as the most ideal economic system the world has ever seen. But can that actually be true when it is the very system that is ushering us into the possibility of our own extinction? The beginnings of capitalism emerged around 500 years ago within the highly patriarchal, alpha-male-dominated and stratified culture of Europe. … Continue reading →
In his deeply personal book, Going Dark, professor and leading authority on abrupt climate change, Guy McPherson, fully acknowledges the already-predicted catastrophes of climate change, and then adds some that are not generally known or acknowledged. As he says, The Great Dying wiped out at least 90% of the species on Earth due to an abrupt rise in global-average temperature … Continue reading →
My heart is breaking for baby boys. They need infinitely more love and tenderness than they actually get, and the absence of that essential care leaves a lifelong scar on their hearts and souls. Recent studies show that baby boys are born with measurably less emotional resilience than baby girls. In fact, their right brains, which are the mediators of … Continue reading →
As babies and children, we need to be seen, and we need to be loved. These are our most primal and most essential needs. They trump all other emotional and spiritual requirements. What does it mean to be seen and loved? It means being seen for who and what we actually are. It means being loved unconditionally as this true … Continue reading →
Men commit almost all the violence against others on Earth. Around 90% of convicted murderers are men. The great majority of those sexually assaulting children are men. Most rapists are men. The majority of domestic violence perpetrators are men. All despots and architects of genocide throughout history have been men. And in the killing fields of war, almost all soldiers … Continue reading →
As a Holocene child, I grew up on a bountiful, infinite Earth. She showered us with sun and rain, soil and food, trees and wood, leather and cloth, metal and oil – everything we could possibly need for health and happiness and ease. She freely offered us all of the riches from the vast treasure chest of her being. It … Continue reading →
Once upon a time, humans roamed the Earth, plucking all their sustenance from her ever-fertile fields and forests and waters. As they foraged for their food, their shelter and their clothing among the living beings of the Earth, her plants, animals, birds and water creatures, they noticed that there was more to Earth than just her physical forms. It started … Continue reading →
In the Western world, and in fact in most of the world today, our economic system is based on the ideas and ideals of capitalism. It’s the economic water we swim in, so close to our living breathing bodies that we can barely pull back far enough to look objectively at what it actually is. And it doesn’t help that … Continue reading →
A recent study found that almost 20% of California’s forests are now ‘zombie forests’. What’s a zombie forest? It’s a forest growing in a climate that has become too warm and dry for new saplings to establish themselves. Mature trees, with their deep roots, can hold on for a time, but when they die, they are not replaced. Regeneration of … Continue reading →