Notations From the Grid (Special Weekly Edition): On Mother Earth

As we've seen the fires in California, Australia, the Amazon, we complied a number of must reads along with a call to action: An effect of rising deforestation in Brazil, Amazon fires turn into a global crisis Between January and August 19, 2019, Brazil has seen 72,843 fires, an increase of 83 percent compared to the same period in 2018, according to data by Brazil's National Space Research Institute (Inpe).

Scientists: Human Extinction Is Extremely Likely Forget nuclear weapons, biological warfare, and the slew of other ways humanity could cause its own destruction for a moment. If you take into account only naturally occurring phenomena, researchers determine that the probability of our entire species going extinct in any given year is as high as one in 14,000. READ MORE → This is why it is imperative for us all to listen to this: