Editorial Cartoons
Editorial Cartoons
A Prehistoric Reminder of the Immense Damage We’ve Done
Oct 10, 2019 Carbon dioxide levels are higher now than in all human history, and prehistory too: a low-carbon world nurtured our distant forebears.
Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Apr 15, 2019 Climate change is no mere "problem." We are in a planetary transition and will survive only if we rapidly create new forms of civilization.
New Atlas Traces the Scar Humans Have Inflicted on Earth
Jul 2, 2018 Yet another global survey has identified the devastation of the Anthropocene. By 2050, the landscapes will be degraded even more.
Long-Lasting Civilization May Be a Pipe Dream
Apr 19, 2018 Astrobiology—the search for alien life—suggests a lesson for us here on earth: Civilization may not be sustainable over geological eras but, rather, self-destroying.
The Path to a New Earthly Epoch
Nov 25, 2017 Our planet has entered the Anthropocene, some scientists argue—a new geologic era of human modification of the natural world. The latest evidence? Roads.
Book Suggests That as a Result of Our Environmental Actions, We Are Contemplating Our Own Extinction
Apr 3, 2017 Human mistreatment of the planet is ushering in a new geological era—one that will not be pleasant, according to public ethics professor Clive Hamilton's "Defiant Earth."
How to Stop Capitalism’s Deadly War With Nature
Sep 14, 2016 It's not humanity alone that threatens life on earth. The bigger culprit is an economic and political system that relies on endless global appropriation of cheap food, energy, raw materials and labor.
Emissions Could Make Earth Uninhabitable
Feb 27, 2016 Researchers predict that the hothouse effect of runaway greenhouse gases would ultimately boil our planet dry and make it incapable of sustaining life.
Humans’ Mark on Planet Prompts Scientists to Consider Renaming the Epoch
Jan 13, 2016 The postindustrial impacts that humans have had on the earth and its atmosphere may pinpoint the mid-20th century as the start of a new geological epoch.
Markets Cannot Solve the Climate Crisis
Dec 28, 2015 “Free range” capitalism is one of the causes of climate change, and it must be reformed if we are to solve the crisis, Andreas Malm writes in his new book, "Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming."
