This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA Spring’s here - the time of hope and renewal, so let’s ignore the news cycle for a moment and celebrate some of the good things which are happening. There’s a surprising number of them, though they often get lost amid stories of disaster and despair. I’m indebted to Angus Hervey and FutureCrunch.com for alerting me to many of these along with important advances in medicine, education, civil and human rights and poverty alleviation. Hervey’s excellent essay “Collapse, Renewal and the Rope of History” particularly explores these issues more deeply, but for now I shall simply mention some of the environmental gains which have been made in recent years. Conservation initiatives around the world (not in any particular order) While almost all environmental topics are connected, I'll start with conservation because we all know biodiversity and life itself depend on healthy ecosystems. They are so far also the only effective...
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