MAHB Newsletter for February 2024

Greetings to the MAHB Community,   

Check out the latest developments:

• Why we must all work together to have a trustworthy election.
• Interactive database: Systems Change Lab identifies more than 70 critical shifts that can help deliver systemwide transformations.
• “Every vote matters, more this year than perhaps at any time in history,” says Jane Goodall.
• Also, engage in the discourse about biodiversity protection and the role of consumption and population.

February’s blogs include:

• A MAHB dialogue with Angelou Ezeilo, lawyer, author, and leader of Ashoka International.
• A blog about deadly greenwashing and what it would take to ensure ecosocial birth and developmental equity.
• A young writer’s take on how to solve overpopulation in developing countries.
• An artist’s creation of pentad calendars, and a blog on how solar power can save lives in India’s rural healthcare.

This month’s resources include:

• An article on how nature is ravaged by population growth.
• Richard Grossman MD writes about the other side of reproductive coercion.
• A quantitative assessment on how to reconcile ecological balance with human development (paper available).
• An article exploring whether there can be non-human philanthropy.
• An assessment of the minimum levels of nature required to secure human well-being (paper available).
• An article on how AI could shape climate science.
• An opinion piece on whether countries like the UK should decide between higher net migration and further nature degradation, or reduced economic growth.
• A Scientists’ Warning paper on overpopulation and Living Systems (paper available).

Podcasts and videos:

• We’ve highlighted two TGS episodes, one with Alexa Firmenich discussing the significance of developing a connection to nature, and another with Ashley Hodgson on the structures that drive consumptive and destructive pathways and how to foster new economic paradigms.
• In a third video, David Attenborough answers questions about our planet’s future by people from the worlds of sport, film, TV, music, and natural history.

Also, a reminder that the WhatsNextForEarth’s art call, “Resilience in Major Sectors,” is still open until March 15, 2024.

Don’t forget to check out the latest MAHB announcements here.

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