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When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course!
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course! The Kenney government plays word games as it plans to strip-mine the Rockies. Does this look like mountaintop removal to you? Coal mining underway in Elk Valley, BC, on the west side of the Rockies across from where Alberta plans similar mining. Photo by Callum […]
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation?
Declining sperm counts: Nature’s answer to overpopulation? Epidemiologist Shanna Swan projects that on current trends sperm counts will reach zero by 2045. That shocking conclusion comes from a new book by Swan and her colleague Stacey Colino. Is this nature’s way of bringing human population under control? (More on that later.) In a 2017 study Swan and colleagues looked at […]
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum
What Lies Ahead? The Grand Solar Minimum We are all aware of the environnmental crisis that humanity (and all life on Earth) faces, characterised by the term ‘climate change’. Much of the current thinking in the scientific community is promoting the idea that our planet is rapidly warming due to excess CO2 (carbon dioxide) gas […]
Sustainability Metrics
Sustainability Metrics There is growing evidence that agriculture and food is one of the most significant contributors to the transgression of ‘planetary boundaries’, especially in the area of greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, soil, water, and nitrogen use. As Professor Johan Rockström pointed out at the World Economic Forum, “A transition to sustainable agriculture and forestry […]
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story
The Climate Crisis Discriminates. Maps Tell the Story How data visualizers are helping to plan to support Cascadia’s most vulnerable communities. Next in a series. UBC researcher Michael Brauer is mapping how everything from flooding to heat to smoke will harm some communities more than others in the province. Photo via Peter Wall Institute for Advanced […]
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2)
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 2) This is part two of a five-part essay that highlights lessons from the coronavirus pandemic which could advance the fight for a Green New Deal. Part one (published on Resilience.org here) argues that money is not scarce. Part two argues that control of […]
‘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 […]
