Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (
PNAS) shows that land use by human societies has reshaped ecology across most of Earth s land for at least 12,000 years. The research team, from over ten institutions around the world, revealed that the main cause of the current biodiversity crisis is not human destruction of uninhabited wildlands, but rather the appropriation, colonization, and intensified use of lands previously managed sustainably.
The new data overturn earlier reconstructions of global land use history, some of which indicated that most of Earth s land was uninhabited even as recently as 1500 CE. Further, this new
PNAS study supports the argument that an essential way to end Earth s current biodiversity crisis is to empower the environmental stewardship of Indigenous peoples and local communities across the planet.
Portland woman says she was billed by Kaiser, pursued by bill collector for her rape exam
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Zoe Amos underwent a sexual assault exam at Kaiser Sunnyside last year. She said she was assured by Kaiser staff that the state would be billed for the procedure. Amos is now suing the hospital system for charging her for her own rape kit. April 8, 2021 Beth Nakamura/StaffThe Oregonian
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Last year, Zoe Amos was invited to the dorm room of a male student at the University of Portland.
Amos, then a freshman, said she had two hard seltzers. She does not remember what happened next. The following morning, she woke up in another dorm room.
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The 9 Boundaries Humanity Must Respect to Keep the Planet Habitable
All life on Earth, and human civilization, are sustained by vital biogeochemical systems, which are in delicate balance. However, our species due largely to rapid population growth and explosive consumption is destabilizing these Earth processes, endangering the stability of the “safe operating space for humanity.”
Advanced human societies emerged during an unprecedented period of stability on Earth. During the 12,000 years prior to the Industrial Revolution, our planet’s surface temperature varied by less than 1° Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) above or below the average for that entire period. As a result, life both human and wild thrived.
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Climate change is just one of nine critical planetary boundaries, and we’re living beyond four of them, writes Claire Asher
Advanced human societies emerged during an unprecedented period of stability on Earth. During the 12,000 years before the Industrial Revolution, our planet’s surface temperature varied by less than 1° Celsius above or below the average for that entire period. As a result, life both human and wild thrived.
But over the past two centuries, humanity has dramatically increased greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, pushing us outside this “safe” climate zone; outside the conditions for which civilisation has been designed.