Good News for the Biosphere at-a-Glance! The fight to save biological life on earth.
This email is not a commercial initiative, but a free expression of optimism about the potential of humankind and the progress being made to help regenerate and sustain our biosphere.
The Dominant Economic Model is Destroying Societies and the Planet
It’s time for a change! In 1972 The Club of Rome released its momentous report “The Limits to Growth”, one of the first computer systems analyses on the impact humanity is having on earth. At the time it was dismissed as an irresponsible doomsday scenario even though today its themes have proven accurate. Now the Club of Rome has released Earth4All an international initiative to accelerate the systems-change we need for an equitable future on a finite planet. Its analysis combines the best available science with new economic thinking. The report found that the next ten years must see the fastest economic transformation in history if we want to steer humanity away from social and ecological catastrophe. Find more information here.
Taking Stock 2024: Progress on the US Energy and Emissions Outlook is Promising
The think tank, Rhodium Group in their annually updated outlook for US greenhouse gas emissions finds that under current federal and state policies the US is on track to reduce emissions 38-56% below 2005 levels by 2035, absent any additional new action. In the ten years since they released their first Taking Stock report, the US has made progress on a path to decarbonization. In addition, new policies enacted at all levels of government have never been stronger for achieving even deeper cuts to emissions, including the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), adoption of a suite of federal regulations aimed at driving down emissions, and ambitious state action. This progress has driven the U.S. closer to its Paris Climate Commitment of 52%. Read the report here.
Green Amendments for the Generations
In the United States a nonprofit group called Green Amendments For The Generations was created to constitutionally protect nature. Their mission is to ensure that every person and community across the United States is able to experience the health, quality of life, education, joy and economic prosperity provided by a clean, safe and healthy environment; to end environmental racism; and to help ensure that nature itself is able to thrive, by constitutionally empowering all people to secure and enforce their inalienable human right to pure water, clean air, a stable climate, healthy ecosystems and environments. Find out more here.
Now Find Your Favorite Climate Denier – They Can Run, But They Can’t Hide!
DeSmog was founded in January 2006 to clear the PR pollution that is clouding the science and solutions to climate change. Our team quickly became the world’s number one source for accurate, fact-based information regarding global warming misinformation campaigns. In DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, you can browse its extensive research on the individuals and organizations that have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight global warming. Find your anti-hero here.
Our Biosphere - Is defined as that part of the Earth in which living organisms exist (the entire zone of life). As such, it is viewed as all the places that support life and includes the overlapping zones of the atmosphere, the upper part of the geosphere, and all of the hydrosphere. Or more simply; any place on Earth where life can exist. Not protecting our Biosphere is the root cause for most of the critical environmental, social and economic multi-crises we face today in the Anthropocene Era.
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