Finding a place to take a stand
Finding a place to take a stand Mapping regions bio and cultural David McCloskey’s recently completed mapping of regions around the Salish Sea. Regions in a time of breakdown The Raven is increasingly focusing on the concept of regionalism, the idea that, as urbanist Lewis Mumford put forward many years ago, there is a “regional framework […]
In 2022, the world as we knew it ended. Decades of conflict lie ahead
In 2022, the world as we knew it ended. Decades of conflict lie ahead The ‘end of history’ has concluded and the world has returned to conflicts between ‘great powers’. Let’s hope it doesn’t turn nuclear By Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Club Programme Director & one of Russia’s leading foreign policy experts.© Getty Images / erhui1979 […]
The Human Eco-predicament: Overshoot and the Population Conundrum
The Human Eco-predicament: Overshoot and the Population Conundrum This article was originally published by Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2023, Vol. 21, pp. 1–19 Abstract: The human enterprise is in overshoot, depleting essential ecosystems faster than they can regenerate and polluting the ecosphere beyond nature’s assimilative capacity. Overshoot is a meta-problem that is the cause […]
Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic “Like Wildfire”
Satellite Images Reveal Beavers Are Transforming The Arctic “Like Wildfire” (Dan Pepper/Getty Images) Beavers are taking over the Alaskan tundra, completely transforming its waterways, and accelerating climate change in the Arctic. The changes are so sudden and drastic that they’re clearly visible from space. As the Arctic tundra warms, woody plants are growing along its rivers and […]
Are You Prepared for a Hard Landing?
Are You Prepared for a Hard Landing? The New Year brings both optimism and hope. A chance to start fresh. To turn over a new leaf. The sentiment is welcome. The outcome, however, can be a grave disappointment. If you recall, 2022 was supposed to be a year of redemption and prosperity. After the ugly […]
How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat
How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat (Image credit: Nailia Schwarz/Alamy) Plastic pollution is one of the defining legacies of our modern way of life, but it is now so widespread it is even finding its way into fruit and vegetables as they grow. Microplastics have infiltrated every part of the planet. They have been […]
Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary For those who haven’t been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations It’s January 4th, 2023, which means Twitter Files stories have been coming out for […]
The Global Financial System Is A Rube Goldberg Machine
The Global Financial System Is A Rube Goldberg Machine Much Of The Economy Is Like This Machine More than one economist, big wig CEO, and Fed watcher has alleged the problems haunting the financial system have very deep roots. These people often contend governments and central banks have not fully rectified the problems causing the […]
‘Pineapple Express’ And Bomb Cyclone To Wallop California
‘Pineapple Express’ And Bomb Cyclone To Wallop California A moisture conveyor belt of atmospheric rivers has unleashed near-record rainfall across the West Coast. Another, perhaps, more powerful atmospheric river and bomb cyclone are set to target California on Wednesday and Thursday, continuing ten days of heavy rains and snow for higher altitudes. The National Weather […]
Global NatGas Prices Sink As Warm Weather Spreads
Global NatGas Prices Sink As Warm Weather Spreads US and European natural gas prices are sliding as warmer weather reduces demand for the heating fuel, and storage levels remain high. Risks of a global energy crisis are diminishing for now — well — that’s until the next cold blast strikes. The polar vortex that sent […]
How agriculture hastens species extinction
How agriculture hastens species extinction This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on something scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction. There have been five great die-offs in the history of our planet, when at least 75 percent of the known species disappear. The last mass extinction was 66 million years ago, when an asteroid […]
Drivers could see gas prices surge to nearly $7 a gallon in some US states as refinery issues bite supply and Chinese demand bounces back, GasBuddy says
Drivers could see gas prices surge to nearly $7 a gallon in some US states as refinery issues bite supply and Chinese demand bounces back, GasBuddy says Gas prices could top $4 a gallon in most major US states next year, GasBuddy says. (Photo by Steve Pfost/Newsday RM via Getty Images) Gas prices could surge toward […]
China is destroying itself
China is destroying itself Preface. China has been destroying itself for many decades now. In Mao’s “great leap forward” about 35 to 50 million are estimated to have died from starvation from 1958 on, as you’ll read in my book review of” Shapiro J (2001) Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary […]
Nuclear Waste Disposal and Peak Oil
Nuclear Waste Disposal and Peak Oil Preface. One the greatest tragedies of energy decline will be the nuclear waste left to harm thousands of future generation for hundreds of thousands of years. We owe it to them to clean up our mess while we still have the fossil fuels to do it. If we do […]
