MAHB Newsletter for July/August 2023

Greetings to the MAHB Community,   

Check out what’s happening: This year, Earth Overshoot Day fell on August 2. Find out what you can do to push back the date! If you want to know (or even calculate) whether the Earth can fit us humans all in, you’ll enjoy Tim Murphy’s book Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet (and download it for free). Join Iranian filmmaker Nastaran Rahnama on her journey to where our produce comes from and see what she found in her award-winning documentary Space to Live (includes Paul Ehrlich, Jeff Gibbs, Sofia Pineda Ochoa, Robin Maynard, Michael Kaelo, Brian Kaelo, and Dennis Sonkoi). Watch the video Why We Need an Earth Systems Treaty, and sign the petition. It is not often that mainstream media reports on this issue but in August, Newsweek featured a study by ecologist William Rees on why a major ‘population correction’ is inevitable this century (audio and full paper also available).

Read this month’s blogs on who will save the coral reefs of Hawai’i; Jane O’Sullivan’s rebuttal of seven common misconceptions around population matters; a GTI contribution on how to become good ancestors; a MAHB dialogue with Julian Cribb where he answers questions around a much-needed Earth Systems Treaty and a blog by artist and architect Kim Tanzer on recovering the walkabout.

Our resources include lessons from evolutionary biology on solidarity with animals; Gen Z’s slow consumption movement; a book review of Prof. Paul Ehrlich’s Life–A Journey through Science and Politics by Stanford Magazine; the (probably) best Degrowth Directory; Nobel laureate Steven Chu’s article on the world economy’s pyramid scheme (and why economists and governments don’t talk about it); a Stanford report on the dangers of AI (download available); an article on the delusion of decoupling, and charts about the Earth’s hottest month so far: July 2023.

Watch and listen to Tim Murphy’s video on Planetary Limits Perspectives; Nate Hagens’ TGS podcast with psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist, and the video on unprecedented heat stress and mass-bleaching on corals across the Americas. Will this be a wake-up call and unite people to act?

Check out the Arts Section for the latest What’s Next for Earth Community Resilience & Education call (open until September 15) and visit the Community Resilience and Social Justice / Equity / Ownership exhibition.

Don’t forget to check out the latest MAHB announcements here.

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