Links – Ecorealities

Beyond ‘business as usual’.

Table of Contents

ECOLOGY

Ecology:

Diaz et al (2019) Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

Ecological footprint:

Footprint Network – Ecological footprint

Global reports:

Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES, 2019

Global Environment Outlook GEO-6 – Healthy Planet, Healthy People, UNEP, 4 March 2019

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA), 2005

Miscellaneous:

Mission LifeForce – ‘let’s add ‘ecocide’ to the list of international crimes’

One Earth – 100% Renewable Energy, conserve 50% of Earth’s land and seas, and Regenerative Agriculture

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate — Discoveries From a Secret World (book, 2016) – Peter Wohlleben

World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – 1992

World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity – 2017 ; A Second Notice

Oceans:

Greenpeace (2019) In Deep Water – The emerging threat of deep sea mining

Reforestation:

Four questions about the Amazon fires, answered, Bruno Vander Velde for Conservation International, 23 Aug. 2019

Tree Sisters

Regenerative:

Designing Regenerative Cultures (book, 2016) – Daniel Christian Wahl

Regenesis Group

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate change:

Anderson & Peters (2016) The trouble with negative emissions (PDF)

Climate Levels Graph: A project of the 2 Degrees Institute

Hansen et al (2017) Young people’s burden: requirement of negative CO2 emissions

World can limit global warming to 1.5C ‘without BECCS’, Simon Evans for CarbonBrief, 13 April 2018 [the linked article discusses a paywalled article: van Vuuren et al (2018) Alternative pathways to the 1.5 °C target reduce the need for negative emission technologies]

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS):

Timeline: How BECCS became climate change’s ‘saviour’ technology, Leo Hickman in CarbonBrief, 13 April 2016

Why BECCS might not produce ‘negative’ emissions after all, Anna Harper for CarbonBrief, 14 Aug. 2018

Climate change 'solutions':

Project Drawdown: Summary of Solutions by Overall Rank

Climate change denial - 'deplatforming' 'predatory' climate denial:

Climate change deniers are dangerous – they don’t deserve a place on our site, Misha Ketchell in The Conversation, 17 Sept. 2019

The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children, Tim Flannery in The Conversation, 17 Sept. 2019

Climate change denial:

DeSmog – fact-based info. on misinformation (and disinformation) campaigns about global warming (and more)

Skeptical Science – popular climate change denial arguments debunked

Climate change news and analysis:

CarbonBrief – Clear on climate

RealClimate – Climate science from climate scientists

Climate emergency:

Breakthrough’s discussion paper series

Comics:

A timeline of Earth’s average temperature, xkcd

The Existence of Trains Debate, by Barry Deutsch in Leftycartoons

Decarbonising Australia

Australian climate change policy to 2015: a chronology. Talberg, Hui, & Loynes

Beyond Zero Emissions

Climate Council (2019) Climate cuts, cover-ups and censorship

Superpower: Australia’s Low-Carbon Opportunity (2019) – Prof. Ross Garnaut

Food:

Climate Change and Land – Special report (2019) – IPCC

Climate Change and Land: an in-depth Q&A on IPCC’s special report on climate change and land (2019) – CarbonBrief

How much does animal agriculture and eating meat contribute to global warming? Skeptical Science

Future scenarios - 'radical' perspectives:

Crash On Demand – Welcome to the Brown Tech Future (PDF), David Holmgren, Dec. 2013

Great Transition – The promise and lure of the times ahead (PDF), Raskin et al, 2002

Raising Ambition – Zero carbon scenarios from around the globe (2018) – Zero Carbon Britain

Future scenarios:

Global emissions projections to 2030 and emissions gaps to 1.5°C Paris 2015 target – Climate Action Tracker

Global emissions projections to 2100 and the 1.5°C Paris 2015 target – Climate Action Tracker

Global Warming of 1.5°C – Special report (2018) – IPCC

How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change (2018) – Zeke Hausfather

The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond, Interactive by Carbon Brief

Hope:

Despairing about the Climate Crisis? A conversation with scientist Susanne Moser about climate communication, the benefits of functional denial, and the varied flavors of hope, Laurie Mazur in Earth Island Journal, 22 July 2019

Natural Climate Solutions:

Griscom et al (2017) Natural climate solutions

Nature-based solutions: How can they work for climate, biodiversity and people? (2022) – CarbonBrief

Oceans and Cryosphere

Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate – Special report (2019) – IPCC

Oceans and Cryosphere: an in-depth Q&A on IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere (2019) – CarbonBrief

Psychology:

It’s the End of the World as They Know It – The distinct burden of being a climate scientist (2019) – David Corn for Mother Jones

WATER

AGRICULTURE

ECONOMICS

Business as usual is unsustainable:

‘The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability’, Ward et al in The Conversation, 13 March 2017

European Environmental Bureau (2019) Decoupling Debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability

Prosperity Without Growth – Foundations For The Economy Of Tomorrow, 2nd Edition (book, 2016) – Tim Jackson

POLITICS

Obstacles to effective environmental governance:

Dark Money – The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (book, 2016) – Jane Mayer

Winners Take All – The Elite Charade Of Changing The World (book, 2018) – Anand Giridharadas

People and planet-loving:

Earth Charter (2000)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) – UN

ENERGY

Energy:

Global Energy Monitor – ‘Building an open guide to the world’s energy system’

Decarbonisation:

Bauer et al (2017) Shared Socio-Economic Pathways of the Energy Sector – Quantifying the Narratives

Davis et al (2018) Net-zero emissions energy systems

Decarbonisation: a 'radical' scenario. Leave fossil-fuels in the ground, low energy demand, no CCS or BECCS:

World can limit global warming to 1.5C by ‘improving energy efficiency’, Daisy Dunne for CarbonBrief, 4 June 2018 [The linked article discusses a paywalled article: Grubler et al (2018) A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies]

Fossil fuels - Coal in Australia:

Dirty Power: Big Coal’s network of influence over the coalition government (2019) – Greenpeace

Fossil fuels - Coal:

Boom and Bust Coal: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline – GEM

Coal Policy Tool – Urgewald

Global Coal Exit List – Urgewald

Fossil fuels - Oil and Gas:

Compendium of Scientific, Medical, and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking (Unconventional Gas and Oil Extraction), Physicians for Social Responsibility, 6th Ed., June 2019

Exxon Knew

Global Oil and Gas Exit List – Urgewald

More natural gas isn’t a “middle ground” — it’s a climate disaster, David Roberts in Vox, 30 May 2019

Oil and Gas Policy Tracker – Urgewald

On its 100th birthday in 1959, Edward Teller warned the oil industry about global warming (2018)

Fossil fuels:

Banking on Climate Chaos – Urgewald

Investing in Climate Chaos – Urgewald

Renewable Energy - 100% Renewable Energy:

Is 100% renewable energy realistic? David Roberts in Vox, 7 Feb. 2018

TECHNOLOGY

Surveillance capitalism:

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight For A Human Future At The New Frontier Of Power (book, 2018) – Shoshana Zuboff

Technology assessment:

Technology assessment – Wikipedia entry

MISC.

History:

The Patterning Instinct – A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning (book, 2017) – Jeremy Lent

Impressive sustainability leadership leading to low relative impacts, but high absolute environmental impacts (in global supply chains):

Let My People Go Surfing – The Education Of A Reluctant Businessman, 2nd Edition (book, 2016) – Yvon Chouinard

Indigenous knowledge:

Braiding Sweetgrass – Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (book, 2014) – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Journalists:

George Monbiot

Law:

ClientEarth – a charity that uses the power of the law to protect the planet and the people who live on it

Population:

Current world population – Worldometers

World population – Wikipedia entry

Resilience:

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Space colonisation dreaming/delusion:

Life Versus Dark Energy: How An Advanced Civilization Could Resist the Accelerating Expansion of the Universe (PDF), Dan Hooper, 2018

The Kardashev Scale – Type I, II, III, IV & V Civilization, Jolene Creighton for Futurism, 19 July 2014

Suicidal thoughts (please seek support if you're having suicidal thoughts):

Beyond Blue – Australia

International Suicide Hotlines

Lifeline Australia: call 13 11 14 (available 24 hours)

Systems:

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Thinking in Systems – A Primer (book, 2008) – Donella Meadows

Tree roots
Photo by Takashi Watanabe on Unsplash ref. 707014 (downloaded 30th Sept. 2018) cropped.

View from International Space Station
Photograph: ISS/Nasa (downloaded 24 Aug. 2018) cropped. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/18/climate-scientist-clouds-climate-change-interview-kate-marvel

Water
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Industrial agriculture
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Black and white skyline
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Silhouetted group with flag
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‘Energy’
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Data centre
Downloaded on 04 Nov. 2018, cropped. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611902/google-just-gave-control-over-data-center-cooling-to-an-ai/

Gazelles
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