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The IEA’s Latest Proposal Is Both Reckless And Impossible
The IEA’s Latest Proposal Is Both Reckless And Impossible The International Energy Agency, which has stepped up its efforts to become a major green energy supporter, appears to have forgotten the reason it was set up as an agency in the first place. In its new report “Net Zero in 2050”, the energy agency calls […]
Big Ag’s Wedding to Big Data
Big Ag’s Wedding to Big Data Jomo Kwame Sundara warns about how the Davos World Economic Forum’s much touted “Fourth Industrial Revolution” (IR4.0) is transforming food systems. For instance, agriculture is now second only to the military in drone use. (DJI-Agras from Pixabay) Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under […]
The Solution to Climate Change is Here
The Solution to Climate Change is Here The solution to climate change is here: We have to stop raising beef and switch to insects, as directed by the UN We have to reduce the population by 62% Do this, and we solve all our problems — at least for the survivors. Since they can order vaccines […]
La Nina Turbocharges Drought In Brazil Putting World’s Coffee, Sugar, & Oranges At Risk
La Nina Turbocharges Drought In Brazil Putting World’s Coffee, Sugar, & Oranges At Risk Global crop and food prices are skyrocketing to multi-year highs, and the culprit could be due to La Nina, a weather pattern characterized by the cooling of the equatorial Pacific and triggers atmospheric shifts that cause droughts in some regions of the […]
The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End
The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End The Alberta landowner fought an epic battle against fracking interests. Jessica Ernst became a high-profile critic of hydraulic fracturing, injecting liquid at high pressure to force loose oil and gas out. ‘The system dismissed my case, but I don’t think I lost in the […]
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History
The Most Colossal Planning Failure in Human History A couple of days ago I happened to pick up an old book gathering dust on one of my office shelves—Palmer Putnam’s Energy in the Future, published in 1953. Here was a time capsule of energy concerns from nearly a lifetime ago—and it got me to thinking along the […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XIII Electrifying everything has become a rallying cry for many people concerned with the ecological/environmental impact of humanity. But do such attempts to mitigate/solve such problems/dilemmas actually do what they claim to? I would argue no. They are simply substituting one set of problems for another set of problems and completely […]
Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC
Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC New weight allowance incentive will help spur ‘green’ fleets, but diesel is likely to stick around for a decade. BC is adding new incentives to shift to a new generation of rigs like this Daimler electric fuel cell prototype. Photo: Daimler. Electric heavy-duty vehicles are […]
Five of Our Favourite Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects
Five of Our Favourite Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects All organisms are beneficial, and at the very least all organisms past, present and future decompose to nourish something else, but when we speak of beneficial organisms we are speaking of those organisms that provide clear and present benefits, specifically to our polyculture activity. Beneficial organisms, […]
‘A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth’
‘A Garage Sale for the Last Old Growth’ As BC’s watchdog slams the province’s own logging agency for wrecking ecosystems, advocates demand action. A special report. Brenda Sayers on the stump of one of BC’s once-largest Douglas firs, felled as part of a BC Timber Sales-auctioned clearcut. The tree was three metres in diameter and […]
ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to
ExxonMobil wants you to feel responsible for climate change so it doesn’t have to A new study reveals how the oil company used “cutting-edge propaganda” to focus on fossil fuel consumption. Andrii Zorii To understand why ExxonMobil has been so effective at shaping the US narrative about climate change in the US for some 40 […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XII Teotihuacan, Mexico (1986) Photo by author My comment on an article regarding the cessation of a provincial programme for municipalities in British Columbia meant to support and fund climate change initiatives. * * * Not sure what the situation is like in BC surrounding provincial mandates and municipalities, but I […]
We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit.
We Should All Be Worried About The United Nations Food Systems Summit. A battle for the future of food is already underway. There’s still time to change the outcome. Image: John Keatley. Graphic: AGC Later this year, the United Nations is set to hold a historic Food Systems Summit, recognizing the need for urgent action […]
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of Colombia, I found myself surrounded by one of the region’s emblematic species, the flowering […]
Why I am not a climate doomist
Why I am not a climate doomist People power is changing the story The people-powered climate movement is taking the issue to the streets and changing the story. That is the key to leaving a planet with which our chuldren can cope. Some of my best friends are climate doomists, and I know why. A […]
