Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report
Global soils underpin life but future looks ‘bleak’, warns UN report It takes thousands of years for soils to form, meaning protection is needed urgently, say scientists Scientists describe soils as like the skin of the living world, vital but thin and fragile, and easily damaged by intensive farming, forest destruction, and pollution. Photograph: Zsolt […]
Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels
Why The World Can’t Quit Fossil Fuels Have the recent pronouncements of the death of oil and reigning renewables been more rhetoric than reality? Yes and no. It’s true that peak oil is now closer than ever, and globally we’re seeing a more earnest effort to decarbonize than ever before, in large part thanks to […]
The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret
Brine pools and processing areas of the Rockwood lithium plant on the Atacama salt flat, Chile. Photograph: Iván Alvarado/Reuters The curse of ‘white oil’: electric vehicles’ dirty secret The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses on emissions, the […]
U.S. crude output to decline more than previously forecast in 2020 -EIA
U.S. crude output to decline more than previously forecast in 2020 -EIA NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. crude oil production is expected to fall by 910,000 barrels per day (bpd) in 2020 to 11.34 million bpd, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday, a steeper decline than its previous forecast for a drop of […]
Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated
Wikileaks Cables: Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves Overstated UNYOM The United States fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously a warning from a senior Saudi government […]
Are we in a ‘New Normal’?
Are we in a ‘New Normal’? The past two years have been especially brutal to so-called equity ‘bears’. Against all odds, and despite all the shocks, global capital markets—if not the real economy they are supposed to represent—have continued to climb to new heights. After the onset of the coronavirus catastrophe, the relentless rise of […]
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble
Investing For The Greenwash Bubble Update: Ironically, this post has been censored by Facebook and other social media co’s, despite it containing no factual errors. Greenwashing, in case you don’t know, is the “disinformation disseminated by an organization so as to present an environmentally responsible public image”. You know, this sort of thing: This is taken […]
In An Insane World, Revolution Is The Moderate Position
In An Insane World, Revolution Is The Moderate Position It should not be considered radical or extremist to oppose mass murder for profit and power. It should not be considered radical or extremist to oppose the globe-spanning power alliance that is perpetrating most of that mass murder on the world stage today. It should not […]
The BIS Issues A Dire Warning: “We Are Moving From The Liquidity To The Solvency Phase Of The Crisis”
The BIS Issues A Dire Warning: “We Are Moving From The Liquidity To The Solvency Phase Of The Crisis” There are three certainties in life: death, taxes and the BIS – the central banks’ central bank – warning about excesses from monetary policy (the most recent amusing example of this was last October when as […]
The Energy Crisis During the Panic of 1873
The Energy Crisis During the Panic of 1873 Humans are not the only species to get viruses. A real energy crisis hit the United States that began in 1872 and expanded into 1873, which contributed to the Panic of 1873. This was a flu virus they called distemper that shut down the US economy by […]
The Staggering Impact Of Online Shopping
The Staggering Impact Of Online Shopping Expect Many Local Stores To Close The ramifications of online shopping during this holiday season while covid-19 rages across the land will be staggering. The fourth quarter is the time of year when retailers normally make the bulk of their annual profits thanks to holiday shopping. The National Retail […]
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially
Transforming life on our home planet, perennially Ed. note: This piece is the first contribution in the new book The Perennial Turn: Contemporary Essays from the Field, ed. by Bill Vitek and published as a free ebook by New Perennials Publishing. For those who are willing to face the multiple, cascading crises that humans have created, […]
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
Three Big Retailer Casualties in One Week: UK Retail Landlords Reel after Worst Week of Nightmare Year
Three Big Retailer Casualties in One Week: UK Retail Landlords Reel after Worst Week of Nightmare Year Some property owners are more exposed to the fallout than others. The UK’s retail property sector was hammered by three big corporate casualties last week, even as the country’s shopping centers began reopening after another lockdown. Two of […]
