July 28th, 2025: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Solomon hosted by the Connecticut League of Conservation Voters. Solomon presented a PowerPoint seminar “The Tyranny of Technology” about the dangers of modern technology for the CTLCV Action Hour. The recorded session can be seen on YouTube at HERE
NEWS OF THE EARTHLING TRIBE
No. 103
August 2025
Do we humans and all life on Earth,
have a right to a worldwide healthy environment?
The Polluter-Industrial Complex
By Barbara Ellis
~ 13 companies make huge profits from the destruction of the rainforests.
According to Olivia Lai at earth.org, “As of 2021, forests still cover about 31% of the world’s land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. Since 1990, the world lost 1.3 million square kilometres of forest due to deforestation… which threaten every inhabitant of the planet: human, animal, and plant.”
~ 20 countries profit most from ocean plastic pollution.
Vibor Cipan, (viborc.com), writes that research published in Science Advances “suggests that more than 1000 rivers account for a staggering 80% of global riverine plastic emissions into the ocean.”
~ US’s EPA wants to dismantle controls on emissions of greenhouse gases.
Zack Colman, writing for POLITICO, July 23, 2025: “The Trump administration plans to argue that federal law does not require agencies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, in a move designed to derail virtually all U.S. limits on climate pollution.” These include “carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases [that] threaten human health and welfare.”
No. 102
July 2025
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE FASHION INDUSTRY
By Peter Solomon and Barbara Ellis
Are we members of the Earthling Tribe, or are we a disparate group of humans, each entitled to get ahead personally, whatever damage this does to the Planet?
Increased use of coal and petroleum over the last two centuries has led to a 60% increase in the atmospheric carbon dioxide. That molecule absorbs heat that is trying to escape Earth and sends half of it back. The result today is an increase of global temperatures of 1.6°C. Predictions for 2100 are as large as a 4°C increase.
About 15% of the new atmospheric CO2 comes from transportation. The generation of electricity in fossil fuel power plants contributes about 30%.
No. 101
June 2025
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) WROTE A SONG TO WARN US ABOUT THE DANGERS OF MISUSE OF THAT AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
By Peter Solomon
I was blown away when I listened for the first time to our song called Turn The Tide about saving Planet Earth from technology misuse. It was created with Artificial Intelligence (AI).
My website, 100YearsToExtinction.com, my media posts, and my upcoming novel, 100 Years To Extinction, warn about the dangerous consequences of misused modern technology, AI among them. Stephen Hawking, who predicted in 2017 that humans would be extinct on Planet Earth in 100 Years, said this: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” But our song is one of the many awesome wonders that drive the lightning speed advance of AI. We want its wonders, but we must guard against its dangers.
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THE NEWS
JULY 28th, 2025: A CONVERSATION WITH DR. PETER SOLOMON HOSTED BY THE CONNECTICUT LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS.
JULY 11, 2025, WABC TALK RADIO “THE Dr. Sky EXPERIENCE” DOES ONE HOUR INTERVIEW WITH PETER SOLOMON ON “100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION” AND “THE TYRANNY OF TECHNOLOGY”
Radio/TV personality, Steve Kates / Dr. Sky, does world class common sense interviews from the world of Astronomy, Space, Aviation, and Weather. with scientists, astronauts, celebrity guests, as well as those that talk about American exceptionalism and our freedoms. https://wabcradio.com/podcast/the-dr-sky-experience/. Listen to the podcast here.
MAY 28, 2025, MUNN AVENUE PRESS TO PUBLISH “100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION”
An agreement was signed with Munn Avenue Press to format, upload, and optimize the novel 100 Years to Extinction for sale, as well as providing publicity for the book.
JANUARY 1, 2025, BLACK HAWK LITERARY & PORTFOLIO AGENCY, LLC TO REPRESENT PETER SOLOMON AND “100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION”
Black Hawk Literary Agency is proud to represent Dr. Peter Solomon and his delightful sci fi novel, 100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION. It asks the question posed by Stephen Hawking, will humanity be extinct by 2117? We love the synopsis: how three young cousins work to make a Mission to Mars happen, and use the same technology advances to correct some of the frightening problems on Earth. This page-turner uses hard science, new political ideas, and humor. It is a reason to get involved and a great read, we promise!
Jan L. Kardys, CEO, Barbara Ellis, VP, Black Hawk Literary Agency
JANUARY, 2022 – PETER SOLOMON’S NOVEL:
I began writing the novel, 100 Years to Extinction, as a wakeup call to young people about the dangers to human civilization from modern technologies. The pace of technology development has far outrun our society’s ability to safely regulate and control their many dangerous consequences.. I was inspired by astrophysicist Stephen Hawking’s 2017 prediction that humans will not exist on Planet Earth in 100 years. As a scientist, I worried Hawking was being optimistic. I agree with Greta Thunberg – our house is on fire! And it’s not just from global warming.
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