Information and resource material on the most important crisis facing human kind. But first a bit of poetry to put it all into context..
A series of 5 videos that put before us the magnitude of the problem facing us.
FEEDBACK LOOP #2 : THE DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS
FEEDBACK LOOP #3: THE MELTING PERMAFROST
FEEDBACK LOOP #4 : THE ATMOSPHERE
FEEDBACK LOOP #5: THE ALBEDO EFFECT
TIPPING POINT: Click on the link below to see a 4 minute video on a summary of why we got here.
SOCIAL JUSTICE : Click on the image below to see a 9 minute video on the terrible imbalances of power and privilege on our planet.
WHAT IS POSSIBLE? Click on the image below to see a 11 minute video on what can happen when the will of many people comes into play.
THERE’S ALWAYS HOPE : Hope is a state of mind- not the state of the world.Click on the image below to see a 4 minute video on hope.
“I have lived nearly fifty years, and I have seen life as it is. Pain, misery, hunger … cruelty beyond belief. I have heard the singing from taverns and the moans from bundles of filth on the streets. I have been a soldier and seen my comrades fall in battle … or die more slowly under the lash in Africa. I have held them in my arms at the final moment. These were men who saw life as it is, yet they died despairing. No glory, no gallant last words … only their eyes filled with confusion, whimpering the question, “Why?“
I do not think they asked why they were dying, but why they had lived. When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” ― Dale Wasserman ( Man of La Mancha)
Click on the image below to hear Charles Eisenstein speak on the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible ( 4 minutes)
Four interactive visualisations showing the effects of human activity on sea levels,temperature rise,carbon dioxide levels and sea ice can be checked out on a NASA website here.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Given that our target is to achieve an environmentally sustainable,spiritually fulfilling and socially just presence on our planet here is some information on the SDG’s adopted by all UN member nations in 2015.Video links here and here
A new story about a new way of looking at the climate crisis and what we can do.
The stories that drive our lives and how we can change the narrative….
Hope for the future: Worldwide Initiatives. A short film by the Pachamama Alliance
DRAWDOWN SOLUTIONS
Take a look at the Keeling Curve ( It shows the yearly average amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from 1958) updated upto June 2023.
Project Drawdown gives us the do able solutions to preserve the quality of that thin layer of air above our heads that keeps us alive. Click on THIS LINK
See the thin blue line ? That’s our atmosphere.
St Augustine's School 