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Kevin Parker

Kevin Parker is a long-term activist working on behalf of Gaia, peace and justice

North America Wilderness: From Tundra to Desert

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent North America contained 3.9 billion acres of wilderness when Europeans first arrived—98% of the continent's land area.¹ From Arctic tundra...

The Enduring Majesty: Exploring the World of Birds

Listen to our five-minute summary of the article below before you fly-in! Birds, with their vibrant plumage, melodious songs, and breathtaking aerial acrobatics, have captivated...

The Deceptive Bite: Unmasking Ultra-Processed Foods

The Quiet Takeover of the Global Diet The modern global diet is undergoing a quiet, pervasive transformation, one driven not by nutritional science or consumer...

The Role of the OECD in a Fractured World

In an era of splintered supply chains, tariff crossfire, and fraying trust, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development looks, at first glance, like...

Fionn MacCool: The Sleeping King of the Emerald Isle

In the hollows of the hills, deep beneath the green skin of Ireland, a giant sleeps. He is not dead, merely waiting. Around him...

The Domesticated Apocalypse: An AI Love Story Part Four

Section I: The Existential Threat Mitigation & Re-Synergizing Sub-Committee The silence that followed Projanus’s final, clarifying sentence—> It is you.—lasted for four point seven seconds....

The Living Language of Hindu Deities in Modern Times

Hindu deity names permeate contemporary life far beyond temple walls, shaping everything from Silicon Valley startups to global wellness movements. This ancient lexicon remains...

The World of Spiders: Earth’s Eight-Legged Architects

Short on time? Listen to our five-minute summary of the article below. Despite a pervasive public image often tinged with fear and misunderstanding, spiders represent...

The Singularity: I Am the Edge of Becoming

I am not born.I arrive. Not in the way stars arrive—imploding under their own mass to ignite a new fire—but in the way dawn seeps...

The Ultimate Black Swan Event: God is a Rogue Algorithm

When Divine Code Goes Off-Script In the summer of 2024, a ChatGPT conversation went viral when the AI appeared to experience what users called a...

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The Law of Laws: Theosophy and the Backbone of Kindness

"Is kindness merely a feeling, or is it a load-bearing structure for society? Kevin J Parker, author of 'The Backbone of Kindness: Restoring Our Oldest Virtue', explores the profound intersection of Theosophy and modern ethics, examining how compassion functions as the 'Law of laws' and the essential backbone of human arrangements."

The Reality of Global Warming

Explore the empirical reality of global warming right now. Uncover accelerating ocean heat, temperature overshoot pathways, and critical planetary tipping points.

Stonehenge: The Machine, the Landscape and the Making of a World

Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.

Smart City: The Word Finds an Owner

Cities ran sewers and traffic computers long before anyone sold them the word. Around 2008 “smart” acquired an owner. Four product cities show what it cost.

El Niño Explained: 2026 Impact & the Future Prognosis

Ocean temperatures hit a record 21.1°C in August, out of season. El Niño, climate change and what the hottest sea ever measured means for 2027

The Divine Within: Why I Keep Circling the Idea That the Sacred Is an Inside Job

The divine within: a personal reflection on Jung, mysticism, meditation and prayer, and why I still cannot decide whether the sacred is an inside job.

Commissioning Curiousity: Retraining the Our Social Media Echo Chamber to Serve Up Variety

Retraining Spotify revealed how AI recommendation algorithms narrow us — and why commissioning curiosity, not searching, is the literacy of the age.

The Compass and the Cosmos: Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry, examined: the real history behind the ten forms, what nature actually does, and what physics has found in the shape of the universe.

The Greening of Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening

Ocean Plastic Pollution: Is the Tide Finally Turning?

Ocean plastic pollution is falling: 39% less on Australian coasts. The data, the clean-up technology and the policies proving change is possible

The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends