From: https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it

It would be an immeasurable help if Greta Thunberg upped her game, specifically by telling her age mates what she knows about the breadth, depth, and severity of the climate crisis. 

She calmly told Daily Show host Trevor Howard that young people are responding because they recognize a “direct threat,” and they know that the world is getting warmer, ice is melting, and that “it will get worse,” but she went on to say that, in her experience, “the awareness is not as it should be” and that people still “don’t understand how severe this crisis actually is.”

She hasn’t yet made the severity explicit, sharing what she almost certainly knows about it. 

She’s approached it, referring to feedback loops leading to an irreversible threat beyond human control, with implications for the future of civilization. She’s approached it in saying that people are already dying at…

Original article written by Dawn Trent, VP Friends of the Bears;

Photos courtesy of Friends of the Bears

An older article posted on abolishsporthunting.org

Stan has lived with black bears for more than 20 years. He has fed and sheltered them, protected the orphans and nursed the injured. In return for his kindness he has received death threats, had property stolen, been shot at more times than he can count, interrupted two attempts to burn down his house, and on several occasions he discovered a rattlesnake in his van. All this at the hands of hunters and poachers, and more often than not, abetted by government employees.

Stan’s crusade on behalf of the much maligned black bear began in 1980, when he discovered a small cub clinging precariously to a tree branch. Stan observed the cub for 24 hours and when no female bear appeared, he concluded that it was…

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Thursday, 23 Jan 2020
4:40 PM MYT

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Xinhua): A new coronavirus spreading from the city of Wuhan has put a spotlight on China’s poorly regulated wild animal trade
– driven by relentless demand for exotic delicacies and ingredients for traditional medicine.

China’s markets, where wild and often poached animals are packed together, have been described as a breeding ground for disease and an incubator for a multitude of viruses to evolve and jump the species barrier to humans.

More than 500 people have been infected by the new flu-like virus that authorities say emerged from illegally traded wildlife in a seafood market in the central Chinese city, with the death toll at 17 and expected to rise.

“The origin of the new coronavirus is the wildlife sold illegally in a Wuhan seafood market,” Gao Fu, director of China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told a briefing.

Preliminary…