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Regulation
What is the Purpose of Announceables?
South_agency | istockphoto.com In August 2019, then environment minister Sussan Ley formally announced Australia’s intention to close the domestic trade…
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Biodiversity
High Fashion Courts Presidents and Princesses
Frédéric Legrand | Dreamstime.com Some conservationists felt a sense of relief to hear President Macron’s “end of abundance, the end…
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Lifestyle, But Not As We Know It.
EXTREME-PHOTOGRAPHER | istockphoto.com Even if you don’t care about non-human species, for those who care about their children and grandchildren…
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Biodiversity
50 Years Of CITES, A Regulator Flawed From The Very Start
In 2019, the primary intergovernmental body monitoring biodiversity (IBPES) reported that 1 million animal and plant species are threatened with…
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Biodiversity
Broken Economic Systems Have Disastrous Consequences For Life On Earth
We can’t maintain the illusion that a free-market system is valid, when for decades externalities and government subsidies have been…
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Biodiversity
EU-27 A Laggard Not A Leader In Tackling Trade In Endangered Species
The collective countries of the European Union (EU-27) are the top ranked profiteers from the legal trade in wild species,…
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Regulation
Don’t Let Your Retirement Fund Drive The Extinction Crisis
Like many people, you may want to ensure the funds you are setting aside for your retirement aren’t being invested…
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Biodiversity
Would You Let Your Home Decay Around You?
As rational animals we believe we wouldn’t live in a home obviously decaying around us and not do something about…
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Books
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and…
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Books
Secular Cycles
Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and…
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