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Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021
Three Major Threats to Life on Earth That We Must Address in 2021 Pulp Mills on a December night, Wauna, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Large parts of the world—outside of China and a few other countries—face a runaway virus, which has not been stopped because of criminal incompetence by governments. That these governments in […]
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming
Extreme ocean-effect snow buries parts of Japan beneath seven feet, with more coming The nation was sandwiched in between record-breaking weather systems. The American GFS model simulates heavy snow targeting Japan during the next week. (WeatherBell) Barely two weeks after a prolific ocean-effect snowstorm dropped seven feet of snow and stranded thousands of motorists, the new […]
Unplugged: Abandoned oil and gas wells leave the ocean floor spewing methane
Unplugged: Abandoned oil and gas wells leave the ocean floor spewing methane The Gulf of Mexico is littered with tens of thousands of abandoned oil and gas wells, and toothless regulation leaves climate warming gas emissions unchecked. Out on the deck of a research boat, Tara Yacovitch looked out to the water. In the middle […]
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers It’s a bit odd that land reform is barely mentioned in most progressive agendas. Maybe that’s because it is seen as challenging the presumed virtues of private property and capitalist markets. Yet secure access and tenure to land is essential for achieving so many progressive goals, from building new sorts […]
Zero Input Agriculture
Zero Input Agriculture On Tuesday afternoon, 24th November, Evita and I ventured to meet Shane at his 40 acres near Pomona. I first heard Shane on an Abundant Edge podcast in July 2020. It was his first podcast and it was incredible to hear him talk about growing food without using inputs such as irrigation, fertiliser, and imported […]
EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals
EU can shut off power supplies if UK tries to seize control of fish stocks, small print of deal reveals Cables under Channel meet 8 per cent of demand – raising threat of higher prices and possible blackouts. The EU has secured the ability to shut off gas and electricity supplies if the UK tries to seize […]
Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists
Welcome to the New Terrorist Movement – Ecoterrorists In London, we had the Extinction Rebellion becoming very violent. Now we have people blowing up gas lines on a coordinated basis and deliberately trying to create havoc leaving people without heat. This will indeed be part of the rise in Civil Unrest and we should expect this to […]
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 […]
