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Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
Irreversible Collapse: Accepting Reality, Avoiding Evil
Extreme flooding from slow hurricanes a danger to farms
Extreme flooding from slow hurricanes a danger to farms Preface. Yet another danger from climate change for agriculture will be slow hurricanes and cyclones dumping a foot or more of rain over a few days such as the recent hurricanes Harvey (2017), Florence (2018), and Dorian (2019). Journal reference: Zhang G, et al. 2020. Tropical cyclone […]
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society) “The way we farm and the way we think are connected—that’s our premise.” On December 16th, Olivia Malloy was joined by Bill Vitek for a conversation about his work with perennial agriculture. Among his many other roles, Mr. Vitek, a philosopher, educator, and scholar, […]
Inviting Nuclear Disaster
Inviting Nuclear Disaster Photograph Source: Brad.K – CC BY 2.0 Nuclear power plants when they began being constructed were not seen as running for more than 40 years because of radioactivity embrittling metal parts and otherwise causing safety problems. But in recent decades, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has extended the operating licenses of nuclear power […]
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right?
2020 the “Worst Year Ever”–You’re Joking, Right? So party on, because “the worst year ever” is ending and the rebound of financial markets, already the greatest in recorded history, will only become more fabulous. Of the lavish banquet of absurdities laid out in 2020, one of the most delectable is Time magazine’s December 14 cover declaring that […]
The Arctic Is Melting
The Arctic Is Melting EARTH is down with a fever. Even the polar ice has vanished. Reports The Washington Post: The Arctic seems to be warming up. Reports all point to a radical change in climatic conditions, and hitherto unheard-of high temperatures in that part of the earth’s surface. Expeditions have sailed as far as 81 degrees […]
New Year’s Week Storm Could Cause Havoc Across US
New Year’s Week Storm Could Cause Havoc Across US A new storm will sweep across the country next week, just like the last one, from Southwest to the Plains to Midwest to East, spreading rain and snow along the way. As 2020 concludes and 2021 is just days away, it appears more wicked weather is […]
The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada
The Transition to a Sustainable Prosperity—A Stock-Flow-Consistent Ecological Macroeconomic Model for Canada Sunset over Lake Ontario (CC.0) Lucas George Wendt / Unsplash Summary This paper presents a stock-flow consistent (SFC) macroeconomic simulation model for Canada. We use the model to generate three very different stories about the future of the Canadian economy, covering the half […]
Is Society Collapsing?
Is Society Collapsing? Abandoned passenger train car, Astoria, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Twenty-five years ago, when the high-tech Second Industrial Revolution had just begun, I made a bet with an editor from Wired magazine that global society led by the United States would collapse in the year 2020 from a confluence of causes created by modern […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom
No Holiday for Honduran Anti-Mining Activists Fighting for Freedom Protest outside Tocoa courthouse, Municipal Committee in Defense of the Public Commons of Tocoa. For the families of eight water protectors in Honduras, there will be no holiday season this year. They will continue to fight for the freedom of their loved ones who have each […]
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time? The Earth is not dying. Gaia is not changing. Gi is responding. So often we hear the phrase ‘save the world’ or the ‘save our planet.’ We may even use it. But sometime back in my career someone wise corrected that, explaining that […]
Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study
David McNew / Getty Images Yes, the U.S. can go carbon neutral by 2050, says new Princeton study The month of December opened with good news and bad news for people concerned about the climate crisis. A climate analysis released by the independent watchdog group Climate Action Tracker said that based on promises made by Paris Climate […]
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease Levi Williams-Whitney traversed the land to make a video opposing open-pit mining. He has no regrets. Still from a video made by Levi Williams-Whitney, titled A Hunter’s Perspective: Open Pit Coal Mining in Alberta. The Kenney government has fined an Alberta hunter $600 for making an anti-coal […]
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming
Why the Climate Change Committee have got it wrong on land, food and farming Last week I spent what I must admit to have been two rather depressing sessions participating in a zoom conference convened by the Climate Change Committee (CCC) in order to share their vision and strategy for reaching net zero emissions by 2050, with a particular […]
