‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO
‘I’m afraid we’re going to have a food crisis’: The energy crunch has made fertilizer too expensive to produce, says Yara CEO The world is facing the prospect of a dramatic shortfall in food production as rising energy prices cascade through global agriculture, the CEO of Norwegian fertilizer giant Yara International says. “I want to say […]
Saudis Respond To Biden: Your Energy Crisis Isn’t Our Problem
Saudis Respond To Biden: Your Energy Crisis Isn’t Our Problem US gas prices at the pump (national average) are at $3.421, having soared since President Biden was elected – much like they did when President Obama was elected – to some of the highest prices in history… President Biden refuses to take any blame for […]
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change This weekend marks the beginning of COP26. After being delayed for nearly a year because of COVID, diplomats, scientists, corporate lobbyists, NGOs, students, demonstrators, corporations, heads of state, and many, many other invited and uninvited guests are already making their way to Glasgow Scotland for what has been […]
“Cry Me A River”
“Cry Me A River” I got a Facebook message early this week from a friend in Sacramento CA that said after over 200 days with no rain, she got 4.83 inches in a 24-hour period from the latest extreme rainfall that occurred over northern California. Others have reported up to a foot of rain in […]
A red light on the dashboard
A red light on the dashboard On New Year’s Eve 2006-7, something unexpected happened. For most of the previous two decades, most of the pubs where I live had operated a system where they gave tickets to regular drinkers in order to limit the number of people seeking entry. This was a problem because one […]
Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Super Serious News Reporting: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Hi I’m a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars […]
Global Food Prices Hit Fresh Decade High In October
Global Food Prices Hit Fresh Decade High In October In October, global food prices continued climbing higher for the third straight month, hitting fresh decade highs, led by vegetable oils and cereals. Higher food costs contribute to more inflationary pressures for the working poor, central banks, and governments. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s food […]
Climate Change and the Limits of Economic Growth
Shutterstock CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution? Since the nineteenth century, human society has experienced extraordinary but uneven economic growth thanks to the energy unleashed from fossil fuels. That growth, and the greenhouse […]
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards
The Mainstream Has the Inflation Story Backwards The mainstream blames inflation on “supply chain bottlenecks.” But they have it completely backward. In reality, Federal Reserve-created inflation is causing the supply chain mess. According to Biden administration talking points, the economy is booming. Americans are flush with cash. And they are demanding lots of goods. The […]
Oil Jumps As Investors Expect Cartel To Balk At Biden’s Demands To Boost Output: OPEC+ Preview
Oil Jumps As Investors Expect Cartel To Balk At Biden’s Demands To Boost Output: OPEC+ Preview OPEC+, which meets later Thursday via video conference, has shown little signs it plans to waver from its plan to raise oil production gradually, despite pressure from senile presidents and consuming nations to temper high prices. The OPEC+ alliance’s […]
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two. A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere. [Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.] Thanks to bright green […]
Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will
Tech Won’t Save Us. Shrinking Consumption Will Beyond the ‘blah blah blah’ of climate summits lies the real solution our leaders refuse to acknowledge. First of two parts. Oversold: Forget carbon storage, direct air capture, hydrogen power and the Earth relentlessly mined to support ‘green tech.’ Image from Shutterstock. Since 1995 there have been 25 global […]
“We’re Near The Very End”: Lawrence Lepard On Bitcoin, Gold & The Coming Crash
“We’re Near The Very End”: Lawrence Lepard On Bitcoin, Gold & The Coming Crash Submitted by QTR’s Fringe Finance This is part 1 of an exclusive Fringe Finance interview with fund manager Lawrence Lepard, where we discuss the state of the economy, gold, bitcoin, catastrophic outcomes for the market, the supply chain in the country and more. Lawrence Lepard […]
Get Ready for Food Rationing
Get Ready for Food Rationing It was a very strange moment when this week the spokesperson for the president defended inflation as a high-class problem. She explained that higher prices are merely a sign that economic activity is picking up. People are buying things and that’s good. Of course that pushes up prices, she said. […]
