The unit of survival is organism plus environment. We are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys its environment destroys itself. – Gregory Bateson
Seth Andrews and The Thinking Atheist’s Matt Dillahunty recently took a little field trip to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter — the giant creationist theme park designed to teach children that the bible is literally true and the earth is around 6,000 years old.
(2017). Criminalizing Environmental Activism. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 49, Prisons, Punishment, and Policing in the Americas. Across the region, violence continues to spiral. What can be done?, pp. 315-322. doi: 10.1080/10714839.2017.1373958
Circa 1910. ‘Los Angeles & San Diego Beach Railway — Gasoline motor car running from San Diego to La Jolla, California.’ A McKeen Motor Car at the Hotel Cabrillo in La Jolla. 5×7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
According to University of Texas at Austin professor Raj Patel, an expert in ecology and food systems, our demand for meat is driving the sixth mass extinction. Patel is one of many leading academics who contemplate declaring a new age on Earth, called the Anthropocene, since “the fossils of soon-to-be extinct animals will form a line in the rocks of the future.”