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The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport
The Future Is Not a Spectator Sport Like all self-organized, adaptive systems, society moves in nonlinear ways. Even as our civilization unravels, a new ecological worldview is spreading globally. Will it become powerful enough to avert a cataclysm? None of us knows. Perhaps the Great Transition to an ecological civilization is already under way, but […]
Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’
Flames surround the drought-stricken Shasta Lake in Lakehead, California on July 2, 2021. (Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images) Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the ‘Most Extreme in World Weather Records’ “Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin.” A pair of climate scientists […]
Mississippi Claims Memphis is Stealing its Groundwater, Supreme Court to Decide
Mississippi Claims Memphis is Stealing its Groundwater, Supreme Court to Decide A long standing battle between states over water rights is headed to the Supreme Court. The battle over water rights is heating up. Please consider the State of Mississippi v. City of Memphis and Memphis Light, Gas, and Water now on the Supreme Court Docket. Mississippi’s […]
Bootleg Fire In Oregon Uncontrollably Doubles In Size Amid Megadrought
Bootleg Fire In Oregon Uncontrollably Doubles In Size Amid Megadrought Large swaths of the Western half of the US experienced triple-digit temperatures this past weekend, with intense heat expected to continue through mid-week. As the West baked, a huge wildfire doubled in size in southern Oregon, continuing to threaten major transmission lines that feed power […]
The show is over.
The show is over. Climate strike in Lausanne Tomorrow 150 weeks will have passed since we started to school strike for the climate. During this time more and more people around the world have woken up to the climate- and ecological crisis, putting more and more pressure on you — the people in power. Eventually […]
Speaking for the Old Growth
Speaking for the Old Growth Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan. ‘These giants of the universe with their unique DNA represent a living library of medicine for the citizens of the world,’ says biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. Photo for The Tyee by Colin Rowe. The world recognized tree botanist, biochemist […]
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I
Diagnosing Abiotic Disorders I Abiotic factors cause harm to plants resulting in symptoms. Abiotic disorders can look like damage caused by pests but do not spread in the same ways since the disease agent is not alive. Insects and pathogens cause damage and disease in garden plants, but damage can also occur in absence of […]
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom
California Grid Strained As Power Shortfalls Loom Amid another heat wave across the Western half of the US, California issued a stage-2 power-grid emergency alert Friday and urged customers to conserve power as temperatures surpassed 100 degrees, according to The Sacramento Bee. The state’s grid operator, California Independent System Operator (ISO), issued the alert on Friday, […]
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos
Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos Interview with Professor Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation to climate chaos, by Facing Future TV. In 2018, a climate paper by Jem Bendell went viral, being downloaded over a million times. It helped to launch a worldwide movement of people seeking to reduce harm in the face of […]
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers
Dry Corn Belt Ahead Of Pollination May Spell Disaster For Farmers Kirk Hinz, a meteorologist with BAMWX, published an agriculture note Thursday which outlines “persisting rains” in some parts of the Southwest but “expanding dryness” in the north. Hinz concentrates on the corn belt, which spans the Midwest. He said, “expanding drought into a crucial […]
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time
Climate change consequences: Too hot, too wet and out of time The last few weeks have demonstrated that we have arrived at the climate change catastrophe long prophesied by climate scientists—a catastrophe that many thought we still had decades to avert. In the Pacific Northwest high temperatures broke records day after day. In my former […]
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy
Climate change, domination and the temporality of direct democracy [Being masters or possesors of nature] has no meaning – except to enslave society to an absurd project and to the structures of domination embodying that project.~Cornelius Castoriadis[1] The debates surrounding climate change almost always contain a certain urgency, and, it couldn’t be otherwise as it […]
What is Ecological Overshoot?
What is Ecological Overshoot? What is ecological overshoot and why is it important? Is it a more important predicament than climate change? What about energy and resource decline – more important than it? The answer to the latter two questions is YES and ecological overshoot is important because it is the predicament which is causing all the other predicaments […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author This contemplation was prompted by an article regarding an ‘independent’ think tank’s report that presented the argument that government funding of the oil and gas industry needed to be shifted towards ‘green/clean’ alternatives. I’ve included a few hyperlinks to sites that expand upon the concepts/issues discussed. […]
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years
Canada Spent $23 Billion to Support Pipelines in Just Three Years Taxpayers should understand the financial and climate risks of the big commitment, says an independent report. Governments’ financial support for pipelines is financially and environmentally risky, says a report. Photo from Trans Mountain. Canadian pipelines have received over $23 billion in support from federal and […]
