To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth Expectations for the 2021 COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main stage on the Glasgow conference’s next-to-last day. Nakate chided her audience […]
The Futility of Central Bank Policy
THE FUTILITY OF CENTRAL BANK POLICY It is only now becoming clear to the investing public that the purchasing power of their currencies is declining at an accelerating rate. There is no doubt that yesterday’s announcement that the US CPI rose by 6.2%, compared with the longstanding 2% target, came as a wake-up call to […]
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate
COP26: Uberizing Farms to Save the Climate At COP26, there was a notable silence around the distorted food system that pollutes the Earth and our bodies, writes Vijay Prashad. Mining Cryptocurrency, 2021. (Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research) As the last private plane took off from the Glasgow airport and the dust settled, the detritus of the 26th […]
Méxican Seeds
Méxican Seeds Last month’s ruling by the country’s Supreme Court fuels sustainable farming worldwide, writes Ernesto Hernández-López. Mexico’s Supreme Court in Mexico City. (Ricardo Daniel Maldonado, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) Last month México’s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn […]
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis
Biden Asks The World For Help Easing The Global Energy Crisis Oil prices have fallen below a key psychological barrier on news that Biden is trying to persuade a number of countries to release crude from their Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Biden’s highly unusual move comes just months after he made another request to OPEC+ to […]
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t.
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t. Advocates for a Green New Deal are for a collection of admirable goals which it is usually taken for granted can be achieved within a capitalist economy and while the pursuit of economic growth continues. Here is an indication of the main reasons why these […]
The End of Growth: ten years after
The End of Growth: ten years after Fifty years ago the authors of the groundbreaking book The Limits to Growth showed that, in any of a series of computer-generated scenarios, world economic growth would end sometime during the 21st century. Using simple math and logic, they pointed out that growth in any material input or output cannot continue […]
Will the CIA’s JFK Assassinated-Related Records Ever Get Released?
Will the CIA’s JFK Assassinated-Related Records Ever Get Released? By this time, it should be sinking into everyone’s consciousness that the American people are never going to be permitted to see the rest of the CIA’s 60-year-old secret records relating to the JFK assassination. Yes, I know, President Biden says that the new deadline for […]
“We’ll Never Give Up” – Protests Erupt Across World Over Gov’t COVID Tyranny
“We’ll Never Give Up” – Protests Erupt Across World Over Gov’t COVID Tyranny AP News calls them “far-right,” but tens of thousands of freedom-loving people marched against new tyrannical public health measures, such as partial and full lockdowns and health passports and mandatory vaccinations, across Europe. Demonstrations against new virus restrictions were observed in Austria, […]
Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison gesture prior to a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 30, 2021. (Kirsty Wigglesworth- Pool/Getty Images) VIEWPOINTS Net-Zero Policies: Taking From the Poor and Giving to the Rich It is too often overlooked in all […]
Some Thoughts About COP-26
Some Thoughts About COP-26 Whether you love, hate, or don’t care about Greta, one must admit that she really gets it right in this video. Like most people, she has grown in her knowledge and now no longer sees technological devices as a way out of the predicament of ecological overshoot. Of course, the COP […]
New Rule: OK, Zoomer
New Rule: OK, Zoomer
Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns
Here Come the Climate Change Lockdowns Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice. Cities in India Will Lockdown Over Air Pollution The Supreme Court of India has ordered India’s capital, New Delhi, and […]
Empowered Thinking for Deep Change
Empowered Thinking for Deep Change We’re so in the habit of controlling each other/being controlled that we’ve forgotten how to think for ourselves. We’re so overwhelmed by the challenges we face that we assume there’s nothing we can do (and it’s all our fault). And we assume that controlling each other is necessary and failing […]
“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World
“The Peter Principle” Is Alive And Well Across The World Have We Hit Our Level Of Incompetence? The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter in which the selection of a candidate for a position is based on the candidate’s performance in their current role, rather than on abilities […]
