Facing Future Blog

We welcome you to submit blog posts on any of the stressors covered in this website, or other stressors not covered here.  Topics can include ocean and air pollution, toxic chemicals and processes, the dominance of ‘profit’ over ‘people’ and all of life on Earth, soil degradation and destructive farming and forestry practices, threats to the biodiversity of a no longer healthy ecosphere, population, how we feed ourselves, industrial and personal carbon footprints, and the many components and impacts of climate change.  Don’t forget the topics of political advocacy, and grassroots organizing that are central to Facing Future.

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September 29, 2020

How Using GPI Leads to Healthier Economic Choices

by Ken Pentel

The Danger of Using the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Relation to Human Migration from Rural to Urban Areas and How the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) Can Remedy This. The main focus of the Ecology Democracy Network is to reverse . . .

September 24, 2020

Of Wanderers and Nomads

by Usha Alexander

At the beginning our story—paraphrased from an origin story remembered by a Creed elder — two figures are walking along the clouds. They’ve been walking long and far. Looking down through the spaces between the clouds, they spy a beautiful, . . .

September 21, 2020

Economy vs. Ecology — A Battle of the Titans

by Stuart Scott

Certain sayings earn a place in human culture beyond what one would expect. “Houston, we have a problem” is such a saying. Uttered by Jim Lovell, commander of the Apollo 13 space shuttle mission, it has come to be an . . .

September 17, 2020

A Story of Fire and Ice

by Usha Alexander

When I was a kid, I used to wonder about the possibility that the planet could slip back into an ice age. I grew up in the Rocky Mountain region of the northwestern USA, where winters lasted half the year . . .

September 14, 2020

Being Candles in Dark Times Ahead

by Stuart Scott

In 1974 I first understood that all my training was intended to allow me to become a candle in dark times ahead. I assumed that those dark times lay somewhere off in the distant future -- and that reality at . . .

September 10, 2020

What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weather

by Usha Alexander

In 1997, I was living on Ambae, a tiny, tropical island in the western South Pacific. Rugged, jungle-draped, steamy, volcanic Ambae belongs to Vanuatu, an archipelago nation stretching some 540 miles roughly between Fiji and Papua New Guinea. There, under . . .

August 31, 2020

From Knowledge to Wisdom

by Nicholas Maxwell

For much of my working life I have argued, in and out of print, that we need to bring about a revolution in the aims and methods of science – and of academic inquiry more generally. Instead of giving priority . . .

August 26, 2020

Bring Back the Fish

by Alex Carlin

Your Climate Science Update - Cheer Up, It's Not Too Late! Teenagers paying attention to the news rightly doubt if they will have much of a future. Arctic Siberia breached 100 degrees Fahrenheit, California surpassed 130, and we are hurtling . . .

April 13, 2020

Coronavirus, Food Security and Sustainability – The End of Normal

by Brian McGavin

The COVID-19 virus and its economic impact diverts our attention from every other issue right now, but it doesn't mean dumping our growing sustainability, climate and ecological challenges. The pandemic is a wake-up call to a complacent civilisation totally dependent . . .

March 27, 2020

Lack of Ethics is the Prime Disorder

by Dr. Peter Carter

We live in a world of our making. A world of impending planetary catastrophe, a world in the midst of the 6th mass extinction of life. A world being heated up and burned down, with sky rocketing atmospheric levels of . . .

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