#2 – Australia on fire
Weekly newsletter – 11 January 2020
This week our thoughts are with the living beings of Australia, who still do not see an end to the fires that are destroying their homes.
Featured news
- Sometimes no alternative is better than a bad alternative: Like sending bees to war’: the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession
- Is planting trees the new greenwashing superstar? Peru to plant one million trees around Machu Picchu
- New options are being made but… would you eat them? Food ‘made from air’ could compete with soya
- The introduction of non-native species often does not end well: Australia to shoot down thousands of camels
- Is environmental activism consider terrorism in UK? Extinction Rebellion could sue police over extremist ideology listing
Quote of the week
Carl Sagan once said this on a interview:
We’ve arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.
This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Do you think it has already blow up in our face?