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UN: Short-Term Economic Gains Harming Well-Being and Integrity of Nature
(Further than Pesticides, July 15, 2022) Nature is far too typically sacrificed to a world and outsized focus on shorter-phrase revenue and economic development, according to a new report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Coverage System on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). The report warns that plan generating, broadly, does not reflect the worth of Nature’s roles in supporting human lifestyle and exercise, by no means head all the peripheral added benefits (aesthetic, psychological, religious) people derive from the pure globe. The report calls on leaders in all sectors to combine the contributions of Nature in progress and deployment of coverage in a much more-extensive way — as Le Monde writes,…
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Call for Pikes Peak to be renamed to its Ute name gains steam | Subscriber-Only Content
Austin Box, a Southern Ute tribal elder, knows the story well. “When they were camped here, rather than the sun coming down on the lower area, it went up to Pikes Peak first and showed the sunlight there,” he says in a slow, easy cadence. “When the tribe looked up, they saw the sunlight. The sun wasn’t shining on the lower area. That’s why they named it Sun Mountain. Tavá Kaa-vi.” The 91-year-old Pikes Peak region resident and member of the Ignacio-based Southern Ute Indian Tribe sometimes refers to Pikes Peak by its Ute name — especially when he’s speaking about his cultural heritage. Southern Ute Tribal Elder Austin Box, who…