Rex Weyler - Greenpeace International

Rex Weyler

Rex Weyler was a director of the original Greenpeace Foundation, the editor of the organisation's first newsletter, and a co-founder of Greenpeace International in 1979. Rex's column reflects on the roots of activism, environmentalism, and Greenpeace's past, present, and future. The opinions here are his own.

Posts by Rex Weyler

POST Story #Climate, #EnergyRevolution
Hothouse Earth
14/09/2018

The Hothouse Earth study warns that with a heating of 3 or 4°C, Earth's "self-reinforcing feedbacks" -- wildfires, methane release, forest dieback, and so forth…
POST Story #Food, #Forests, #Oceans
How can we restore Earth’s nutrient cycles?
24/08/2018

Humanity has already breached four of the nine ecological boundaries outlined in 2009 by Johan Rockström: climate change, loss of biodiversity, land-system change, and nutrient…
POST Story #Forests, #Oceans
How much of Earth’s biomass is affected by humans?
18/07/2018

To slow or reverse this erosion of biodiversity, humanity must slow its harvest of the natural biosphere and cease the destruction, depletion, and conversion of…
POST Story #Consumption, #EnergyRevolution
What can we do?
10/06/2018

At the University of Minnesota Dr. Nate Hagens teaches an honours course called “Reality 101: A Survey of the Human Predicament.” Hagens operated his own…
POST Story #AboutUs, #Food, #Forests, #Oceans
Small Arcs of Larger Circles: a new approach to changing the world
01/06/2018

Those who set out to change the world may discover that common sense is not always common, that status quo institutions resist change even as…
POST Story #AboutUs, #Forests, #Oil
Chevron’s SLAPP suit against Ecuadorians: corporate intimidation
11/05/2018

SLAPP suits are "...an attempt to silence, vilify, and criminalize activism.” Read More
POST Story #Climate, #Consumption, #Health
Does human scale matter?
16/03/2018

Since population and overconsumption remain two of the primary drivers of ecological destruction, perhaps we should take on the challenge of stabilising our population, along…
POST Story #AboutUs, #ArcticSunrise, #Esperanza, #RainbowWarrior
A tribute to Jon Castle
25/01/2018

Over four decades Captain Jon Castle navigated Greenpeace ships by the twin stars of ‘right and wrong’, defending the environment and promoting peace. Greenpeace chronicler,…
POST Story #Forests, #Oceans
A Brief History of Environmentalism
05/01/2018

Anthropologists have found evidence of human-induced animal and plant extinctions from 50,000 BCE, when only about 200,000 Homo sapiens roamed the Earth. We can only…
POST Story #Food, #Forests, #Health, #Oceans
World scientists’ warning to humanity
15/12/2017

Environmental activists and organisations typically try and stay positive, to give people hope that we can change. Positive signs exist, going back to the historic…