The beepocalypse is on the cover of TIME, but it looks like managed honeybees will still pull through. Wild bees—and wild …
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Anthropocene: Do We Need a New Environmentalism for a New Age?
We’re remaking the very face of the world thanks to population and economic growth. Environmentalism is being challenged—and a group of dissident greens believe we need to rethink the entire project
Visualizing the Anthropocene
Today about 360,000 new people, give or take a few thousand, will enter the world. Significantly fewer than that will shuffle off it, which is why we’re adding about 200,000 people a day. Global population has already passed 7 billion, and we’re well on our way to 9 billion or more by the middle of the century. Humans live—and for the …
Anthropocene: Why You Should Get Used to the Age of Man (and Woman)
The cover package of this week’s TIME—which should still be on newsstands—detailed the 10 ideas that are changing your life. What kind of ideas, you ask? Well there’s the living alone as the new norm—which I totally get, …
Winning the Conservation War: How to Manage the World We’re Stuck With
I have a Going Green column over on the Time.com mainpage today, and it’s a review of a new collection of essays called Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene. Readers of this blog are probably familiar …