[Ibon]

The hallmark of our times viewed in the future will be human overshoot when human population swelled into the billions and then was not able to sustain itself. This failure will eclipse all the achievements. For our descendants this failure will frame their own reality profoundly.

[SeaGypsy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'H')ere is a ten minute speech given by my favorite Anarchist, co-originator of Permaculture, David Holgrem. In the video, he goes into the anarchy side of Permaculture, and how enlightened self interest, can provide the stimulus to collapse the world financial system. This may be the only thing to save or, lesson, the bigger long term threats of Climate Change and Peak Oil. There is a lot of information and insight into the political aspects of permaculture in this speech.

Synopsis:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ublished on Feb 18, 2015

"To Collapse Or Not To Collapse: Pushing for economic ruin or building a great transition" was the topic for this unconventional 'debate' for the Sustainable Living Festival held at Federation Square in Melbourne February 2015. David Holmgren was the first of six speakers which also included Jess Moore, George Marshall, Nicole Foss, George Monbiot (Video Link) and Philip Sutton.

[Cog]

Our posterity will worship us as gods. Many a tale will be spun to explain the marvels that they uncover when they excavate land fills.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DesuMaiden', 'T')anada, that is assuming there are humans around in another 500 years from now. But you are right...people centuries from now may be amazed at the legends of our advanced civilization. But they may also criticize us for being so short-sighted that we left our descendants, aka them, with a desolate world with nowhere near as much resources and biodiversity as today.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', ' ') If you spend all of your time in the city and suburbs you can get a very distorted view of just how abundant and resilient nature is.

[ralfy]

The irony is that the resilience of nature also involves feedback loops which contribute to global warming and environmental damage, in turn causing crises for human beings.

[onlooker]

I do not believe our descendants for as long as they are around, will ever forget this period of time in our collective evolution. I say this because, this period is uniquely pivotal and special in terms of both the magnitude of our erroneous actions and as the culmination of a particularly virulent form of materialism and preoccupation with ourselves. I fully expect that all those who follows us will have a perspective similar to many generations of humans that came before us. This attitude or perspective being one of a recognition of limitations and of a sense of humility in the face of capricious and unequivocal Nature and the challenges that it imposes on all living beings. So, these few generations who have lived in this modern times are an anomaly that will reverberate throughout our evolution for as long as we exist, for we will be viewed as both having attained great and lofty heights but at the price of existential consequences.

[vox_mundi]

Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')oland on Friday gave the go ahead for large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest intended to combat a spruce bark beetle infestation, despite scientists, ecologists and the EU protesting the move in Europe's last primeval woodland.

Under the new plan, loggers will harvest more than 180,000 cubic metres (6.4 million cubic feet) of wood from areas of the forest over a decade, dwarfing previous plans to harvest 40,000 cubic metres over the same period.

Sprawling across 150,000 hectares, the Bialowieza forest reaches across the Polish border with Belarus, where it is entirely protected as a nature park.

It is home to 20,000 animal species, including 250 types of bird and 62 species of mammals—among them Europe's largest, the bison.

Europe's tallest trees, firs towering 50 metres high (164 feet), and oaks and ashes of 40 metres, also flourish here, in an ecosystem unspoiled for more than 10 millennia.