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Biodiversity
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..we create a culture and language that necessarily assumes we are special. In the face of all the mounting evidence to the contrary, our culture and language suggest that we may be guilty of anthropomorphising life-forms that show us that the assumed ‘human’ qualities are not only human ones.
Talk about stacking the deck against other animals. It is an ugly Orwellian feedback loop. Any approach to truth is lost in a deep corruption of logic and language. This wrong-headedness and unfairness s
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― Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
― Ethics of Life: freedom and diversity
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Ethiopia is the center of origin and diversity for the majority of coffee we drink. The commodification of coffee pushes farmers to grow as much as possible by whatever means possible. This has contributed to deforestation. The place where coffee was born - the area with the greatest biodiversity of coffee anywhere in the world - could disappear. No forest, no coffee. No coffee, no forest. What we lose isn't specific to Ethiopia; it impacts us all.
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― Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
― Bread, Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods We Love
We read and discuss climate literature across all genres and aspects of the changing climate.
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Group for city-dwelling nature lovers looking to reconnect with nature.
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The Green group is about living in a sustainable manner--how human activity affects the environm…more
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