On Ecology and Going Back to the Land
Life begets life, making Earth livable. — Dr. Glen Barry Not much new land is being made, yet land’s health is central to the well-being of human and all life. On land, in a miraculous act of biological...
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Embrace the Coming Ecological Inflection Point and Great Transition
Environmental awareness must soon reach a critical mass, whereby massive societal resources are re-allocated to scale up solutions in a great ecological transition; before biosphere, social, and economic collapse become unavoidable. An approaching ecological inflection point reflects a...
Stop Being Afraid, Work Together to Make Things Better
Things could be so much better, if we want them to be. There are tremendous benefits to be realized by coming together to make peace, promote equity and justice, protect natural ecosystems, and end fossil fuels. But it...
For Paris, Make Love Not War, Remain Free and Be Green
Be strong and reflect. Islamo-Fascism will not be defeated by Christo-Fascism or a state of perma-war. In the 21st century it is time to reject endless military escalation of the Middle East crisis and understand and respond to...
Open Letter: Post Keystone Win, Time to End Natural Forest Logging
An open letter/essay addressed to climate change luminaries Bill McKibben of 350.org and Michael Brune of the Sierra Club: After yesterday’s significant yet symbolic Keystone pipeline victory, not only must the climate movement demand an end to old-growth...
California Wildfires Are Abrupt Climate Change, Ecological Collapse
It’s OK America, pop pills and watch TV. Don’t worry about abrupt climate change, environmental collapse, or perma-war blowback from your oil addiction. “California is a nice place to visit, but soon no one may be able to...
Europe’s Refugee Crisis: Mass Migration is Biosphere Collapse
Refugees and economic migrants currently flowing into Europe and elsewhere globally are the direct result of over-population, ecosystem collapse, climate change, militarism and inequity. Mass migration has the potential to overrun entire societies and human civilization, and even...
Biosphere Collapse: The Biggest Economic Bubble Ever
The global environment collapses as in the pursuit of short-term growth, humanity overruns natural ecosystems including the atmosphere that make Earth habitable. Together we urgently address inequity, climate change, overpopulation and natural ecosystem loss or alone we each...
We Are ALL Mauna Kea: A Sustainable Earth Depends Upon an Indigenist Future
How would you feel if foreigners planned to steal your land to build an eighteen story, eight acre telescope on top your place of worship, burial sites, and water source?! The native re-awakening occurring now on Hawaii may...
GREEN LIBERTY is the Antidote to Authoritarian Corporatism and Global Ecological Collapse
Humanity has so massively overshot planetary ecological boundaries, that already there is an impact upon jobs and consumption; and as a result of diminishing expectations, neo-fascism is rising. It is likely humanity’s cumulative huge demands upon ecosystems, which...
VICTORY! Walker’s Proposed Wisconsin Great Lakes Mine Perched Above Lake Superior Defeated
The project’s collapse is a major blow to Governor Scott Walker’s anti-science environmental policies. The only question remaining is whether the governor must now return the $700,000 bribe paid by the out-of-state developers for its approval. March 1,...
VICTORY! Thrilling Rainforest Victory for Karawari Indigenous Cave Art, the Great Nation of Papua New Guinea, and EcoInternet
Australian Broadcasting Corporation media coverage – So incredibly gratifying to be called out by renowned anthropologist Nancy Sullivan – simply an amazing woman – for having helped protect ancient cave art and surrounding rainforests. Much work to be...
Love in the Time of Ebola
Overpopulation, ecosystem loss, climate change, and Ebola itself are all growing exponentially. The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions – even as...
Ebola Is Ecosystem Collapse
The global environment is collapsing and dying under the weight of inequitable over-population and ecosystem loss. “We learn the meaning of enough and how to share or it is the end of being.” ― Dr. Glen Barry Deep...
VICTORY: Welcome Baby Steps by Greenpeace and FSC on Ending Old-Growth Forest Logging
Reflections upon having taken on Greenpeace and other lesser FSC old-growth logging apologists over their greenwash of old-growth forest logging and winning, and why 66% is the next 350. “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then...
CONGRATULATE Forest Stewardship Council for 1st Baby Steps Ending Greenwash of Old-Growth Forest Logging
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) claims to certify the sustainability of forest management. Yet for two decades FSC with the support of major NGOs like WWF and Greenpeace have greenwashed industrial scale old-growth forest logging – across an...
New Science Suggests More Land-Based Ecosystems Lost than Biosphere Can Bear
An important scientific journal article published today finds that 66% of Earth’s land area must be maintained as natural and agro-ecological ecosystems to sustain a livable environment. Yet about 50% have already been lost, threatening global biosphere collapse....
Global Ecosystem Collapse
The global environment is collapsing as human industrial growth overruns ecosystem habitats that make life possible. Either we choose now to embrace personal and societal changes necessary for global ecological sustainability, first and foremost stopping the destruction of...
EcoInternet Hails Victory Protecting Virunga National Park and Gorillas from SOCO Oil
Vital precedents set that rainforests and oil don’t mix, global people power can protect local ecosystems, and all remaining old-growth forests must be protected from industrial development By EcoInternet – http://EcoInternet.org/ British oil company SOCO International has cancelled...
I Too Have a Dream: That Life on Earth Shall Not Perish, But Rather Thrive Forever
As a species we can do better if we believe in the human family, ourselves and Earth. There are alternatives to passively sitting by as climate abruptly changes, ecosystems collapse, and authoritarianism rises, destroying naturally evolved ecosystems and...
This US Memorial Day Remember War Is Murder
We must stop glorifying war murders and their perpetrators. Instead we must demobilize globally in order to address the far greater threat of abrupt climate change and ecosystem collapse. Murder has not, nor will it ever, make us...
Too Many Humans; Not Enough Biosphere | Dr. Glen Barry Interview on 95bFM
Dr Glen Barry, environmental advocate and scientist, says ‘Earth’s biosphere is collapsing and dying as human industrial growth overwhelms ecosystems and abruptly changes climate.’ 95bFM reporter George Freeman crossed to Dr Barry in Wisconsin to discuss the issue...
On Overpopulation and Ecosystem Collapse
Earth’s biosphere is collapsing and dying as human industrial growth overwhelms ecosystems and abruptly changes climate. Equity, education, condoms, and lower taxes and other incentives to stabilize and then reduce human population are a huge part of the...
Choose Ecology
Humanity chooses ecology – by leaving fossil fuels in the ground, protecting and restoring natural ecosystems, embracing organic permaculture, and reducing own numbers equitably – or we face ecological collapse and the end of being
Love Is the Answer (what was the question again)
Love is the answer. Love the natural world; our food, water, land, and air; and kindred beings like your life depends upon it. It does.
Ecosystem Loss Isn’t Development
“Global climate and ecosystems upon which all life depend are being systematically dismantled in the name of ‘development’.” – Dr. Glen Barry
Collapse of Antarctic glaciers seems to be unstoppable
Every day there is more evidence of abrupt climate change. It takes a massive amount of heat to melt ice, after which warming of the atmosphere will intensify. We must end this ecocidal madness and begin massive emissions...
ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE: Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse
Excerpt of manuscript accepted for publication mid-2014 by Management of Environmental Quality Abstract Planetary boundary science defines key thresholds in the Earth System’s biogeochemical conditions that precede ecosystem collapse and threaten human well-being. Terrestrial ecosystems enter into the...
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