Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2813 )

• Climate Change Will Stir ‘Unimaginable’ Refugee Crisis

  

  GR: Climate change will destroy human civilization as it delivers the final blow to Earth’s biosphere. Already we have lost half our wild plant and animal life... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Petition · Remove Ivory from the Traditional Wedding Anniversary Gifts List...

  

  GR: Wildlife is dying out as our farms, forestry, cities, and industries remove and poison habitats. Ivory lovers and the poachers who represent them favor a... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Mainstreaming Biodiversity: A Real Solution to the Devastation of Nature?

  

  GR: This article describes the biodiversity catastrophe that is unfolding, and it discusses the preventive strategies of the international Convention on... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Beyond the Point of No Return — Imminent Carbon Feedbacks

  

  GR: Yesterday I reported on the positive-feedback loop forming as global soils begin to warm and release greenhouse gasses. This article by Robert Scribbler lay... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Kinder Morgan Pipeline: Canadians Intensify Huge Opposition to Expansion

  

  GR: Efforts to deal with the climate and biodiversity emergencies we have created may depend primarily on civil disobedience. Here’s a link for signing on to... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Fires and Drought Cook Tennessee – a State Represented by Climate-change Deniers

  

  Local resident Ralph Cogdill checks the debris of his house which was ruined by a wildfire in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee on Nov. 30, 2016. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Scientists Have Long Feared This ‘feedback’ to the Climate System. Now They Say...

  

  GR: The potential for runaway global warming is growing. This is an important article that we shouldn’t ignored. Of course, one might argue that when you are... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• US Follows Hong-Kong and Taiwan to Restrict Food Imports from Japan Over...

  

  GR: Be sure to read the comments that follow the article. There are suggestions that the U. S. and E. U. are not really being careful about contaminated food... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Deforestation Spikes in Brazilian Amazon

  

  GR: Growing global inequity is fueling resentment and despair. As inequity and the human population grow, resources decline, poverty spreads, and criminal... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Obama’s Dirty Secret: the Fossil Fuel Projects the US Littered Around the World

  

  GR: These are huge projects that Obama has helped build at a time when the world should be cutting back on fossil-fuel use. The impact of the projects is... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Save Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge!

  

  GR: Global climate change and other issues beset us from all sides, but we must still try to protect and care for the small wild places that remain. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Frightened by Donald Trump? You Don’t Know the Half of It

  

  GR: Monbiot explains that the staff Trump is assembling has no ideology; its members are paid representatives of large corporations and the very rich. Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• North Dakota to Block Supplies from Pipeline Protesters’ Camp | Reuters

  

  GR: Initiating a siege that blocks emergency vehicles and supplies from reaching people on tribal treaty lands is an obvious next step for a law enforcement... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• The Standing Rock ‘Water Protectors’ Vow to Stay No Matter What the Government...

  

  GR: The Corr of Engineers did not send an eviction notice. The letter was merely trying to avoid liability. There isn’t much new here, but we have to be... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Park and Flood: Why Do We Let Planners Pave Over Our Green Valleys?

  

  GR: This article points out how tempting the blank spaces are for planners and developers. Of course, the blank spaces are usually critical bits of nature in... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Bolivian Water Crisis as Glaciers Vanish, Population Grows

  

  GR: Many places will have to begin pumping groundwater. That’s a temporary solution, however. Here in the arid western United States, we’ve seen what happens... Read more

  Posted on 28 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Remembrance Day for Lost Species

  

  GR: Some people feel care and sympathy for wild animals. Many of us have grieved for the passing of a family pet. The subject here is the death of a species, no... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Why Coyotes and Badgers Hunt Together

  

  GR: Fascinating photos. A coyote and badger stalk prey together on the prairie surrounding the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Obama Kicks Off Trump’s Dirty Energy Agenda by Moving to Open Colorado Roadless...

  

  GR: Obama tries again to help out the fossil-fuel industry. This time he’s working for coal. It is unlikely that he believes this will benefit anyone except... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Avoiding the Ecocidal “Black Friday” — Growthbusters and Good Books

  

  GR: Here’s some great Thanksgiving entertainment that I plan to spring on my guests (🙂 ). It’s a bit of a test? Is a system that celebrates, and... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT