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7 diseases that will become more common as climate change worsens

Climate change will undoubtedly bring with it waves of infectious diseases that could pose a real threat to humanity. In the hit HBO series “The Last of Us,” humanity must battle a malevolent fungus that arises due to climate change and turns people into...

Your food choices have the power to save the planet

ClimateChange, Blogs

Climate change is the biggest threat to human civilisation and the natural world, the only way we can stop it is to change our food choices. The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was the year I stopped eating meat. I didn’t do it to save the Earth, but because I...

Drought-stricken Horn of Africa starves due to climate change

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In the Horn of Africa, the impact of climate change induced drought is driving millions of people to starvation. If there’s a ring around the sun, it will rain. If the gude bird sings in descending notes, the skies will open. If vultures gather, the showers will...

Ignoring climate change will have catastrophic consequences

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While banks continue to fund climate change and politicians turn a blind eye, climate criminals put the whole world at risk. In 1923, Robert Frost wrote a short poem entitled “Fire and Ice”. Here is the poem: Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From...

Animal agriculture could push us past the 1.5 threshold

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Researchers have estimated that the emissions from unsustainable food sources, such as animal agriculture, could be put us on a path towards destruction. Emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past 1.5C of global heating, unless high-methane foods...

Climate change is a bigger problem than COVID-19

ClimateChange, Coronavirus, GoodNews

If the world matched the reaction to coronavirus when dealing with climate change we could save humanity. As toll on public health and global economy rises, radical action is needed on greenhouse gas emissions. The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...