Garry Rogers

LATEST ARTICLES ( 2800 )

• Local Wind Farm Fatalities May Affect Whole Bird Populations | Anthropocene

  

  GR: The mortality rate suggests that wind turbines will result in loss of almost all the western U. S. Golden Eagles. “Hundreds of thousands of birds are... Read more

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

• Message to Presidential Debate Moderators: Failure to Ask Climate Questions =...

  

  GR: I caught only one mention by Clinton. The moderators and the candidates know that Americans are too slow-witted to recognize the omission of one of the... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• When Everyone Is Telling You Meat Is The Bad Guy

  

  “The United Nations would like to remove every meat animal from the face of the planet if it could, and especially cattle. “So says Technocracy News – August... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Volume 1979-2016

  

  Sea-Ice Decline GR: Global warming leads to climate change. Watch this video to see how warming, especially the unusually high polar temperature, is destroying... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Electric Vehicles Could Go First at Traffic Lights Under UK Clean Air Zone Plans

  

  Government proposals to tackle air pollution in five UK cities could see electric vehicle drivers using bus lanes and getting priority at traffic lights... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• We Can No Longer Ignore the Damage Factory Meat Production is Causing to Our...

  

  GR: With meat demand rising, biodiversity sinking, and water resources disappearing, it’s time to quit eating meat. “In London, back in 2013, the world’s first... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Painting the Bigger Picture

  

  GR: Lot’s of farewell sentiments arising in these days. Meanwhile, scientists are beginning to nudge one another into “big-picture” research as they realize tha... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Report Offers Cold, Hard Truth About Global Warming – Summit County Citizens...

  

  GR: Floods, droughts, extinctions, and human intraspecific conflicts will all increase as the CO2 now in the atmosphere traps heat and slowly warms the land... Read more

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

• South Australia’s Nuclear Dump Plan – Fool’s Gold? – Senior Liberal MP «...

  GR: There are so many problems with nuclear power. Efforts should be directed toward nonpolluting renewable energy sources. “SA nuclear dump dreams just fool’s... Read more

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

• Are U.S. Tax Dollars Financing Destruction of World’s Largest Mangrove Forest?

  

  GR: We US taxpayers just don’t quit! We finance wars, subsidize fossil fuels, and sacrifice the environment for profit. Our education system sucks, but we do... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Philosophical Friday: The Population Bioethicist Strikes Back at Critics

  

  GR: Here is a short essay that gives clear reasons for reducing the human population. Joe Bish sets up the essay, and the delivery is by Travis Rieder. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• New Report: ‘Blowtorch’-Like Ocean Warming Advances Killer Seas, Shifts El...

  

  GR: The author of this natural-hazard warning (actually, it’s not natural, it’s a human-made hazard), says the hazard is something that should keep us up at... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Planet at the Crossroads

  

  GR: The short-term focus of our news media reflects the short-term focus of its customers–us. The result often has the appearance of psychosis where critical... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• Wildlife Service Kills

  

  GR: This interactive map shows counts of bears, bobcats, mountain lions, and wolves killed by the U. S. government’s Wildlife Service. The legend is on the... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• A World Unprepared: Waves of Youth in Fragile and Unstable States

  

  GR.–Irresponsible growth of the human population and fossil-fuel propelled global warming endanger all life on Earth. Joe Bish, Population Media Center. Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• World Population Growth Is Speeding Up, Not Slowing Down; No Peak in Sight and...

  

  By Leon Kolankiewicz “Leon is an Advisory Board Member and Senior Writing Fellow with CAPS. A wildlife biologist, and environmental scientist and planner, Leon... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• African Forest Elephants May ​face Extinction Sooner Than Thought

  

  GR.–It’s difficult to think of a response to this. Apparently humanities love of ivory is stronger than its love of elephants. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT

• We Have Monarch Caterpillars!

  

  Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars I’ve been checking the little patches of Narrowleaf Milkweed around my place several times a day and this afternoon found two... Read more

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

• Population Reference Bureau Issues 2016 World Population Data Sheet

  

  GR: Our current population of 7.4+ billion is expected to reach 10 billion by 2053. Economists generally do not recognize what this means. Read more

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

• Ecological Special Forces

  

  GR.–No guns and bombs. We need commando units specializing in background investigations and exposure of perpetrators of ecological harm. Let’s have more hacker... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2016 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, BOOKS, ENVIRONMENT