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November 2021 VISION: A PEACE/ECOLOGICAL MANIFESTO The goal of a peaceful world ultimately depends on building global cooperation and achieving human security for all, within the regenerative limits of our … Read more STRATEGIC VISION FOR THE DECISIVE DECADE AND BEYOND
Thirty-three years ago climate scientist James Hansen and other climate scientists testified to a U.S. Congressional Committee and to a Senate Panel. They presented conclusive evidence of anthropogenic climate … Read more COP26 Dangerous Omissions: Amplifying Feedbacks, Human Fatalities
What first comes to my mind about “boat people” are families in rickety boats fleeing from Vietnam in the last days of that war, and now the climate and … Read more Deconstructing Boats on the Eve of Glasgow COP26
Today we face at least three overlapping, existential crises: militarism, the climate crisis and the collapse of biodiversity. While interrelated in many complex ways, these are separate threats, in … Read more Science for Peace in the Decisive Decade
Emissions of greenhouse gases by automobile internal combustion engines and thermal electric power plants could be largely eliminated by moving over to wind and solar power sources, with storage … Read more Climate preservation with lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries
Greenhouse Gases. The atmospheric CO2 concentration in 2020, worldwide, was almost 50% above the pre-industrial concentration (412 ppmv vs 280 ppmv, a 47% increase), the CH4 concentration was almost … Read more 10 Essential Facts about the Climate Crisis
Jim Morrison observed that you don’t get outta here alive. Though Morrison had a point, Kim Stanley Robinson sketches an optimistic scenario in which we – or many of … Read more Climate Emergency: Getting Out Alive
Thomas Homer-Dixon, Commanding Hope, The Power We Have To Renew A World In Peril, Alfred A. Knopf, Canada, 2020. This book by Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon presents a startling … Read more Commanding Hope: A Review
Science for Peace urges immediate and emergency action on the terrifying warming of our planet, now proceeding at a rate hitherto unimaginable. We are committed to working with other organizations to halt this human-induced global heating, and to supporting the communities, many of them indigenous, on the frontlines of the contest with the oil economy.