The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role & Childhood

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The world's first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand in 1972. This marked the beginning of the Green Movement that has gripped the imagination of the entire human race.

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The shift from a mechanistic view to a holistic and ecological view of the world. Just as Copernicus taught that Earth revolves around the sun, the Green Movement has taught us to see Earth as a livin…

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Development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. This means not stripping the natural world of resources that future generat…

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The cage contains no animal but a mirror with the notice 'The world's most dangerous animal'. When you look in, you see yourself. The message is that humans are the most dangerous animals on Earth due…

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Scientists have catalogued about 1.4 million living species. The estimated range of uncatalogued species varies widely from 3 million to 100 million species that still remain unnamed in ignominious da…

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The four principal biological systems are: 1) Fisheries, 2) Forests, 3) Grasslands, and 4) Croplands. These systems supply our food and provide virtually all raw materials for industry except minerals…

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When human claims reach unsustainable levels, the productivity of these systems gets impaired. As a result: fisheries collapse, forests disappear, grasslands are converted into barren wastelands, and …

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Deserts follow. This saying emphasizes that when forests are destroyed by human activity, desertification often follows, showing the destructive pattern of human impact on nature.