Disasters and Solutions — Part 1

Ecological Challenge: Overconsumption

Back in the late 1980s we did an autopsy of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Six months following the terrible spill, we flew out to a remote beach in the Aleutian Islands only to find ourselves picking up massive scoops of undiluted oil. This was 2,000 miles from Valdez. Now, estimates suggest the oil will hit… Continue reading

Sustainability and Animal Rights: Hope for the Future

For the Jains, every entity, down to the equivalent of atoms, or nigodas, has a soul that is endowed with a unique life force; dewdrops, sand, spores, the wind herself all carry this force of being which we would ignore at our own fool-heartiness.

The animal rights conscience is the affirmation of a universal commitment to non-violence. It confirms a… Continue reading

The Animal Rights Conscience — Part 2

Slaughtering Biodiversity, Risking Sustainable Resources

The abnegation of the rights of other species has been a deeply offensive current characterizing our race for thousands of years. While we speak of sustainability as if we actually knew what we were talking about, we continue, by and large, to slaughter inhumanely, consume without blinking, destroy with not so much… Continue reading

The Animal Rights Conscience — Part 1

Ecological Diversity at Risk: Flora and Fauna

For all of our intense deliberations concerning the future of ourselves and all the other life forms co-habiting this fragile planet with us, not one person can adequately predict even a few seconds into the future. The lessons of the past have faded, as the philosopher Heidegger warned regarding our… Continue reading

The Attenuation of the Biological World — Part 4

Global Conservation vs. Individual Thinking

Predictions that as many as 60% of all life forms may well go extinct by the end of this century — compounded by our increasing consumption of animal products and the ever-present possibility of rogue detonations of purloined 80 percent plus enriched uranium (20 percent being the weapons grade threshold… Continue reading

The Attenuation of the Biological World — Part 3

The Importance of Conserving Animal Rights

It is not, and while the more than 500 international environmental treaties are a good start, they do not begin to ensure the level of protection necessary for diverse ecosystems upon which we are all dependent; nor do they protect the individual lives of species, rare or otherwise. Only… Continue reading

The Attenuation of the Biological World — Part 1

Lack of Conservation Progress

At the present time (mid-2010) Homo sapiens are trapped in the paralysis-through-analysis syndrome: vast amounts of information but the inability to collectively change the outcome of seemingly unceasing bad news raining down upon all creatures great and small with relentless insults and calamity. Every day we are confronted with age-old quandaries… Continue reading