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Understanding the Anthropocene, Resilience Thinking, and the Future of Industry

Green Business Bureau

At the end of the first century, there were approximately 170 million people on Earth, by 1800, the population was over 1 billion people with major cities developing, breakthrough medical advancements, and continued technological innovation. There is nearly twice as much carbon in permafrost than is currently in the atmosphere.

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Dire Scientific Warnings from the Study of Fossilized Shells and Our Hope for the Future

Green Market Oracle

Scientists have recently added to the body of evidence confirming global warming as the cause of previous extinction events. This led them to conclude that the cause of the extinction was warming and ocean acidification attributable to the release of GHGs from massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia.

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Reaching net zero requires climate intervention and aggressive mitigation

Business Green

To limit global warming to a peak of 1.5C, which the impacts we are experiencing at 1.35°C °C warming (based on an average of the last 10 years) make clear is a higher than desirable goal. We would suggest that is arguably impossible, both economically and technologically. The challenge. The response.

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

methane) from animal and land management and land-use change, which make the biggest warming contributions in the agricultural sector.”. These come from deforestation, changes in soil carbon, methane emissions, emissions from fertilisers, manure, farm machinery, and animal feed production.

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'Climate breakdown has already begun': Green figures react to IPCC's landmark climate warning

Business Green

With the world on the brink of irreversible harm, every fraction of a degree of warming matters to limit the dangers of climate change. It is clear that keeping global warming to 1.5°C The dangerous and costly impacts we are experiencing now will seem mild compared to what we will face if we fail to keep warming to 1.5°C