Humanity is facing the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity and wildlife loss, and pollution. at the same time, our civilization is on an unsustainable trajectory pointing to a collapse if fundamental transformations cannot change this trajectory very soon. The community in the VCC has prepared a “Declaration of Human and Planetary Existential Emergency” (HPEE) that summarizes the challenges and indicates an action plan to face the challenges. we have two main foci:
The moment has come where we all need to act. what do we have to lose by acting? we only are losing by not acting on the emergency!
Hope is like a muscle and action is training this muscle. Jane Fonda.
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[Mar. 03, 2025] Seeing Earth Through the Eyes of an Alien Planetary Ecologist: In the Call 9-1-1” episode of “With Good Reason”, Hans-Peter Plag takes on the perspective of an alien planetary ecologist coming to Earth. And when he looks at Earth, he sees a crisis of overgrowth. Humans, he says, have become a virus in the Earth’s life-support system. If we don’t learn to do more with less, he fears that we will irreparably disrupt the planetary system that keeps us alive.
[Jun. 09, 2024] A Core Statement: George Tsakraklides states: “The reason why capitalism is a death sentence for humanity is that it is a system which only understands doing, building and achieving. It is incapable of stopping, retreating and reducing, which are the very things we must do if we want to have any chance of continuing to exist.”
[Jun. 08, 2023] Translation of the Declaration: The translation of the Declaration of Planetary Emergency is under way. To help, go to the Declaration.
[Apr. 09, 2026] There Is No Way Back: In her latest blog, Jessica Wildfire gives a very clear and shilling description of the recent months, in which those who are in power have lost all pretense. There is no way back from that. It is now crystal clear that those wealthy people in power do not care for anything else than themselves. They realize that they may need far less of us others than they thought and can care even less about us. A very clarifying read!
[Mar. 06, 2026] Global Warming Appears to be Accelerating: In the article titled “Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds” the author Ajit Niranjan reports on a study by G. Foster and S. Rahmstorf. After subtracting the estimated influence of El Niño events, volcanic eruptions and solar variations from the global temperature curve, the researchers find a significant acceleration of warming since about 2015. For the last 10 years, the increase is at 0.35o per decade. This acceleration of warming indicates the insufficiency of the efforts made so far to slow down global warming.
[Mar. 04, 2026] Carbon dioxide overload: Potentially Toxic Atmosphere Within 50 Years: A study by Alexander N. Larcombe and Phil N. Bierwirth titled “Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years” published in The Lancet indicates that the anthropogenic activities increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere could lead to a toxic atmosphere already in 50 years from now. “There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms.”
[Mar. 04, 2026] Sea Levels are Already Higher Than Previously Estimated: In an article in The Guardian titled “Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests&rdquo, Tara Russell discusses a new study “ Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments” by Katharina Seeger Philip S. J. Minderhoud published in Nature. The authors reach the conclusion that average sea levels are 30 cm higher than thought globally, and up to 150 cm in south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific. This establishes an urgent need to revise many risk assessments and efforts to develop coastal resilience.
