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Save Earth Get Rich
Save Earth Get Rich Henri Matisse Flowers 1907I sometimes can’t believe I think I must revisit this theme time and again, but here we are. Joe Biden is chairing a virtual climate plan/summit/whatever, and absolutely nothing has changed since the last time I tried to explain why it is nonsense, or all the other times before that. […]
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third
“Agricultural Disaster” – Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third Earlier this month, French farmers fought mother nature in their attempt to prevent frost from wiping out their crops. It appears their attempts have failed as the damage is extensive and could wipe out nearly a third of French wine output for […]
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence
350 Canada’s “Climate Science Basics” fail the acid test of science reporting excellence Its climate crisis assertions border on the fraudulent; they’re “misleading, overly simplistic, and sometimes, factually false.” — No 2723 Posted by fw, March 30, 2021 — On Wednesday April 7, 2021, Amara Possian of 350.org sent an email to followers bearing the Subject line […]
Heat Wave!
Heat Wave! Find your sunglasses. Stock up on sunscreen. And get your shorts and tee shirts out. You will need them. A Northwest spring heatwave is about to begin. The start to spring has been chilly and damp, but that will be a distant memory by this week. Consider the latest ensemble forecast (running the […]
The Wrong Direction: Bright Green Lies
The Wrong Direction: Bright Green Lies THE RECENTLY RELEASED book Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It is designed to disabuse a well-meaning public of the notion that Teslas and wind farms will save the planet. They won’t, say the three coauthors, Derrick Jensen, Lierre […]
The real value of water
The real value of water Valuing Water is the theme of the 29th World Water Day this year. Valuing Water and Enabling Change also happened to be the theme of the Annual Report of the World Economic Forum’s 2030 Water Resources Group (now hosted by the World Bank) last year. Clearly, no one who ever had to go without a glass of water for […]
Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him?
Where’s Dirk Gently When You Need Him? Did you hear? A supersized cargo ship got wedged in the Suez Canal on March 23rd? If you didn’t, you must do pretty well at avoiding the news, social media, and late night TV. But the short of it is: the Ever Given somehow lost control (sandstorm strength winds have […]
Geoengineering the climate: The zombie idea that just won’t die
Geoengineering the climate: The zombie idea that just won’t die Just when you think the last boomlet for geoengineering the climate has expended itself and we might be rid of any serious consideration of it as a strategy for addressing climate change, it rises zombie-like from the dead and starts roaming the Earth again. The […]
Book review of “Bright Green Lies”
Book review of “Bright Green Lies” This is a book review of “Bright Green Lies. How the Environmental Movement Lost its Way and What We can Do About It” by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert. This is a timely book. The Biden administration is alarmed by how China controls up to 90% of […]
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests AITKIN COUNTY, Minn. — Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels of arrests and citations for demonstrations against the private Canadian infrastructure project rise faster than at any time since construction began on it in December. The […]
“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency
“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency “We cannot keep drifting apart into two separate tribes with a separate set of facts and separate realities with nothing in common except our hostility for each other.” (Mitch McConnell). I’ll get this out there before we go any further: the idea of there […]
Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, and My Own
Grace Olmstead’s Uprooted Idaho, and My Own Last summer my family and I drove right by Emmett, Idaho, the ancestral home of Grace Olmstead, author of the wonderful, if imperfect, Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We’ve Left Behind. Idaho’s Gem County (Emmett is the county seat) is beautiful country, which it was good to reminded of. […]
Running out of Ice on the Moon. How we Forgot the Problem of Resource Depletion
Running out of Ice on the Moon. How we Forgot the Problem of Resource Depletion “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert A. Heinlein, (1966), translated into Italian as “La Luna è una Severa Maestra.” It was probably the first science fiction book for adults I ever read in my life, I still remember […]
Sir David Attenborough issues a stern warning to Earthlings in his new documentary film
Sir David Attenborough issues a stern warning to Earthlings in his new documentary film Physicist Tom Murphy finds much to agree with in his review of the film: “We would keep consuming the earth until we had used it up.” No 2722 Posted by fw, March 30, 2021“In the 1970s, we started noticing extinctions taking place […]
