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Earth Commandments: Honor, Preserve, and Engage with Nature

By Dick WhitePosted on May 31, 2024Posted in Ecological Sustainability, SustainabilityTagged Ecological Sustainability, Ten Commandments

A viable human future on planet Earth demands ecological sustainability. Consequently, the first three of the Ten Commandments for Planet Earth—without deifying Nature—align with the biblical admonitions about God. The First Commandment for Planet Earth: I am Earth, home of biological evolution. Let no human enterprise take precedence over me. The biblical First Commandment asserts […]

Why Pose Yet Another Version of the Ten Commandments?

By Dick WhitePosted on March 19, 2024Posted in Ecological Sustainability, Economy, Social SustainabilityTagged Ecological Sustainability, Economy, Social SustainabilityNo Comments

Famous people and others have offered ecological versions of the Ten Commandments. I explain why I have chosen to join them.

Ten Commandments for Planet Earth

By Dick WhitePosted on January 17, 2024Posted in Ecological Sustainability, Social SustainabilityTagged Ecological Sustainability, Science, Ten Commandments

Conceiving the lessons of modern science as a source of “revelation” prompts a reformulation of the Ten Commandments of Western religions that asserts the primacy of planetary health over purely human concerns. A Scientific Creation Story We now know that humankind, like every other species, is the product of eons of universal and then biological […]

Climate Disasters and Party Loyalty

By Dick WhitePosted on August 17, 2023Posted in Climate, Economy, PoliticsNo Comments

The Lahaina wildfire disaster prompts me to wonder…

Mother Nature Bats Last

By Dick WhitePosted on November 29, 2023Posted in Climate, Diplomacy, PoliticsTagged 2024 Election, Climate Change, COP 28

Mounting climate damages frame the international COP 28 negotiations and the 2024 U.S. election.

Climate Action Now, Step One Toward Sustainability

By Dick WhitePosted on August 16, 2021Posted in Climate, Sustainability

What is more important today: sustainability or climate change? The question poses a practical dilemma. Sustainability is a much more embracing concept than climate change, incorporating concerns beyond the environment to economic health and social equity. Climate change impacts all three dimensions, but sustainability would extend much further in each of them. Even so, I […]

Pandemic also shows threat from climate change

By Dick WhitePosted on July 6, 2020Posted in Climate, PandemicTagged Climate, Pandemic

[This Guest Column appeared in the Durango Herald weekend edition, April 11, 2020.] A striking Durango Herald headline during the development of the coronavirus pandemic is that some Americans are stocking up on guns and ammunition, in addition to food. People are scared, in particular, scared for the security of their families.

Incubating the Egg

By Dick WhitePosted on November 26, 2019Posted in Climate, Economy

“I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” –Greta Thunberg, 2019 “Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.” – Kenneth Boulding, 1953 Welcome to Enduring Green Globe. The magnificent blue and green world we […]