The Arctic Is Melting
The Arctic Is Melting EARTH is down with a fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post: The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface. Expeditions have sailed as far as 81 degrees […]
New Year’s Week Storm Could Cause Havoc Across US
New Year’s Week Storm Could Cause Havoc Across US A new storm will sweep across the country next week, just like the last one, from Southwest to the Plains to Midwest to East, spreading rain and snow along the way. As 2020 concludes and 2021 is just days away, it appears more wicked weather is […]
The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada
The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada Sunset over Lake Ontario (CC.0) Lucas George Wendt / Unsplash Summary This paper presents a stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic simulation model for Canada. We use the model to generate three very different stories about the future of the Canadian economy, covering the half […]
The Great Reset: BlackRock Is Fueling A $120 Trillion Transformation On Wall St.
The Great Reset: BlackRock Is Fueling A $120 Trillion Transformation On Wall St. Big money is turning its back on companies that aren’t conforming to one simple idea… Sustainability. And it’s fueling one of the biggest transfers of capital the world has ever seen. In fact, within a year, 77% of institutional investors will stop […]
The Very Real Possibility Of Peak Oil Supply
The Very Real Possibility Of Peak Oil Supply Three months ago, British oil giant BP Plc. (NYSE:BP) sent shockwaves through the oil and gas sector after it declared that Peak Oil demand was already behind us. In the company’s 2020 Energy Outlook, chief executive Bernard Looney pledged that BP would increase its renewables spending twentyfold to $5 billion a […]
Peak Oil in South & Central America
Peak Oil in South & Central America (1) Pre-Covid ..Fig 1: Oil production and peak years Production peaked 2015 due to Venezuela’s production collapse. Brazil’s production has not yet peaked but is unlikely to offset Venezuela’s decline. All other countries together are on a bumpy production plateau for the last 20 years. Fig 2: Oil […]
Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang
Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair You hide in your mansion While the young people’s blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud You’ve thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world – Bob Dylan, […]
What To Do When The Planets Diverge
What To Do When The Planets Diverge Planets Jupiter and Saturn came into closer alignment than any time since 1226 this week. Yet the planets in Washington did not align. The federal government was unable to ‘Christmas tree’ its stimulus bill. At the 11th hour, President Trump called bull pucky on the contents of Congresses […]
Is Society Collapsing?
Is Society Collapsing? Abandoned passenger train car, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern […]
Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Mass Media Propaganda Is Enemy #1: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix The most Orwellian tool of our rulers which does the most damage and affects the most lives is not surveillance, nor police militarization, nor government secrecy, but domestic mass media propaganda. It’s also the most overlooked. It’s good to protest the […]
Manchester England Protest
Manchester England Protest
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
Weekly Commentary: Just the Facts – 12/25/2020
Weekly Commentary: Just the Facts – 12/25/2020 For the Week: The S&P500 slipped 0.2% (up 14.6% y-t-d), while the Dow was little changed (up 5.8%). The Utilities declined 0.9% (down 2.9%). The Banks jumped 3.1% (down 15.0%), and the Broker/Dealers gained 1.9% (up 29.8%). The Transports dipped 0.3% (up 14.9%). The S&P 400 Midcaps rose […]
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom Protest outside Tocoa courthouse, Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa. For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each […]
