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‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision BC Liberals accuse NDP of mismanagement; Greens warn public to brace for higher costs. Premier John Horgan confirmed today that construction of the Site C dam will once again go ahead. ‘I know there are a lot of British Columbians who have […]
Exclusive: Sea Shepherd founder warns destruction of planet ‘out of control’
Exclusive: Sea Shepherd founder warns destruction of planet ‘out of control’ Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson has warned human destruction of ecosystems is “out of control” and impacting us as a species. “This is not about saving planet Earth,” he said in an exclusive interview with Yahoo News Australia. “This is about saving ourselves from […]
One Thing Jason Kenney and Elizabeth May Agree On
One Thing Jason Kenney and Elizabeth May Agree On Neither likes the new federal Impact Assessment Act, which Alberta is challenging in court. Jason Kenney’s government argues in the Alberta Court of Appeal that the federal Impact Assessment Act shouldn’t apply to coal mining in the province. Former Green leader Elizabeth May assails the act […]
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms
New Evidence Shows Fertile Soil Gone From Midwestern Farms Soil on hilltops in this photo is lighter in color, revealing a loss of fertile topsoil. Evan Thaler for NPR Farming has destroyed a lot of the rich soil of America’s Midwestern prairie. A team of scientists just came up with a staggering new estimate for […]
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp the Mississippi River valley. […]
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene
Radical changes are needed for transformations to a good Anthropocene Abstract The scale, pace, and intensity of human activity on the planet demands radical departures from the status quo to remain within planetary boundaries and achieve sustainability. The steering arms of society including embedded financial, legal, political, and governance systems must be radically realigned and […]
Bert Dohmen Warns “Forget Global Warming – The True Danger may be Global Cooling”
Bert Dohmen Warns “Forget Global Warming – The True Danger may be Global Cooling” “The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about yet refuse to investigate.” ― Dr. Wayne Dyer Because of the winter storm disaster in Texas and some other states, and the “global warming” crowd telling us it is […]
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation
Past world economic production constrains current energy demands: Persistent scaling with implications for economic growth and climate change mitigation Abstract Climate change has become intertwined with the global economy. Here, we describe the contribution of inertia to future trends. Drawing from thermodynamic principles, and using 38 years of available statistics between 1980 to 2017, we […]
If humanity’s critical planetary overshoot is not corrected deliberately, nature will impose a chaotic implosion
If humanity’s critical planetary overshoot is not corrected deliberately, nature will impose a chaotic implosion “If we wish civilization to continue, human beings must learn to live more equitably, well within the means of nature” – William Rees. — No 2709 Posted by fw, February 14, 2021 — “So, if I can just summarize and put […]
Clarifying Wind Turbines
Clarifying Wind Turbines It is possible to include heating elements in wind turbines to prevent freezing. They never took that into consideration in Texas where the wind turbines probably supply as much as 10% of the power. The same problem took place in Germany. Nobody seems to have done their research into historic weather patterns. […]
13 Years Is Too Long for Victims of Shell’s Oil Spills to Wait for Justice
13 Years Is Too Long for Victims of Shell’s Oil Spills to Wait for Justice This case has beaten a path through the undergrowth for victims of corporate crimes. Now we need strong laws to make this avenue easier to access. Donald Pols (R), director of Dutch environmental organization Milieudefensie, and Channa Samkalden (L), lawyer […]
Climate Campaigners Say ‘Listen to the Science’ as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years
Climate Campaigners Say ‘Listen to the Science’ as New Study Shows Earth Now Warmer Than Any Time in Last 12,000 Years The study “changes the baseline and emphasizes just how critical it is to take our situation seriously,” its lead researcher said. A new study published in the journal Nature shows the Earth is now hotter than […]
The Early Roots of a Modern Crisis
The Early Roots of a Modern Crisis This is our challenge: to move a world of almost 8 billion people, most involved in an economic system with tremendous inequality, a clear imperative to expand, and a chronic tendency to stagnate, toward some real rapprochement with earth. This is a monumental challenge. If nothing else, the […]
Co-op says #NotInMySupermarket
Co-op says #NotInMySupermarket After a joint letter organised by Beyond GM and Slow Food UK, and signed by a wide range of organisations, including the Sustainable Food Trust, Co-op is the first UK supermarket to say it will not stock products made from untested and unregulated ‘gene-edited’. In response to a civil society appeal […]
Hot Money
Hot Money I watched the new documentary Hot Money by Susan Kucera tonight. An intelligent world-wise father (General Wesley Clark) and his son discuss some of the problems we face with many smart participants. I don’t think they interviewed a single idiot, which was refreshing. They know something is seriously wrong and make an honest attempt to […]
