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António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Climate Change Action. We cannot settle for the lowest common denominator. We know what to do.

WATCH: COP President Sharma and U.N Secretary General Guterres address COP26 — YouTube

COP President Alok Sharma and U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres deliver remarks at the COP26 climate summit, 12th November 2021.

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Txai Surui ‘The Earth is Speaking’

A powerful speech by a young Amazonian activist at the opening of the United Nations Glasgow COP26 climate summit

Txai Surui delivered her speech at COP26 in Glasgow. Source: Twitter/@wwfbrasil

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Txai Surui (Chi Su-ree) is a 24-year-old activist from the Brazilian Amazon. The following is my transcript of her COP26 speech.

“My name is Txai Surui…

Indoor Air Pollution, will an African Violet on your desk fix it?

It may well be safer to cover your desk with African Violets and go outside to work.

African violet plant. Image — Wikimedia Commons.

Indoor air pollution or indoor air quality is an often over looked yet important factor in our health and well-being. The buildup of carbon dioxide from breathing and other chemicals released from cleaning agents and modern textiles can reach unhealthy levels. Importantly indoor air pollution also applies to the interior…

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration or Re´ge´ne´ration naturelle assiste´e

Promoted by West African governments and environment and development NGOs for arable land restoration and reforestation.

Woman farmer with machete making holes to plant seeds. Image — Pxfuel Creative Commons.

Declining agricultural productivity, land clearance and climate change are features of the marginal rural lands of dryland West Africa and have made the population vulnerable to food shortages. One land rehabilitation method that has come from the farmers themselves, is Farmer Managed Natural Restoration FMNR. …

Environmental Success.

We’ve controlled pollutants before, we should be able to fix carbon dioxide as well.

London smog 1952. Public bus with Police motorcycle escort. Image — Flickr Creative Commons.

We have controlled and reduced major environmental pollutants before. Supplying clean water and sanitation, smog, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, have resulted in environmental control success, even if not completely fixed. …

Do we need a Steady State Economy instead?

Is inflation needed to pay off State debt?

Economist model. Image — pxhere.com Creative Commons.

Most world economies are based on growth, more people, more production and consumption, and more use of natural resources. A country’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, is a measure of its economy and it is seen as desirable for the GDP to increase. …

World Population Limit, what should it be?

Do we know?

Human population decreasing, mitigating climate problems and also allowing other species to survive. Image by author.

The world human population was estimated to be 7,713,468,000 in 2019, with Africa having 1.3Billion, Asia 4.6B, Europe 747Million, Latin America and the Caribbean 648M, Northern America 366M and Oceania 42M (United Nations, 2021). Some estimates put the world population expected increase to be 2.5billion people by 2050. Is there…

Whales could be a breakthrough in climate change.

The potential of whales to capture carbon is truly startling.

Ban Whaling, people sign Japanese flag to stop whaling, Melbourne, 2007. Image — John Englart, Flickr, Creative Commons.

One whale is worth thousands of trees, begins a December 2019 journal article by Chami and others, titled ‘Nature’s Solution to Climate Change’. The article proposes the strategy of fixing more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by increasing the whale population, particularly the great whales, the baleen and sperm whales.

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Whale meat, can you taste the mercury?