The Earth System Treaty A Worthy Path to Human Redemption By Geoffrey Holland The ‘Big Picture’ for humanity comes down to ten massive threats to our planet’s biosphere; the same biosphere that all of our lives depend on. In concert, these global-scale threats pack more than enough punch to devastate our Earth’s capacity to support…
By Geoffrey Holland “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” Gloria Steinem For humans to save ourselves from ourselves, the way forward must be built on gender equality in all ways. We need unambiguous gender parity. We need equal rights under the law, equal pay for…
The Shame that Goes with Killing for Fun By Geoffrey Holland For humans, there was a time when hunting and killing animals was about survival. It was about feeding family and wearing skins from animals was about staying warm and alive. As a species, we grew up around a mythology that assumed that humans were…
Our Obligation to Future Generations By Geoffrey Holland The biosphere we all depend on is failing. The evidence is overwhelming. It’s getting worse by the day. The massive, climate-driven fire storms that recently incinerated Los Angeles are clear evidence. Human indifference and overreach are entirely responsible. Cultural transformation on a global scale is our only…
A Transformative Pathway to Remaking Ourselves in the Best Way “The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.” – James Thurber, Author, Humorist Our current human circumstance is becoming more unsettled, more uncertain with every passing moment.Our human population now exceeds 8…
That’s a Good Thing ‘…from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.’ – Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species Sex has been around for two billion years. Trillions of plants and animals of countless varieties have come and gone on Earth over that time. All…
The Way Forward From Human Overreach ‘People Protect What They Love.’ – Jacques Yves Cousteau, Ocean Explorer _______________________ Loving women, loving nature: two ideas that should be truly inextricable. The world we live in is in very deep trouble, because we have failed to love either sufficiently. Consider how we got here. Think about the…
How a Billionaire Does the Right Thing Life on Earth is in big trouble, way beyond anything ever seen before. It’s starts with our numbers. It took till the year 1927 AD to reach two billion humans on our planet. Since then, the population has quadrupled to more the 8 billion, with an additional 2…
‘Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.’ Carl Sagan, Astrophysicist, Son of the Cosmos __________________________ We humans find…
The story begins with the emergence of humans as a distinct species about 200,000 years ago. For nearly all of the millennia that followed our arrival, humans survived as hunter/gatherers living in caver clans, taking what they needed from nature to survive. Imagine What Caver Life Was Like Our common ancestors lived in small family…