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Who is “we”?
Who is “we”? Ed. note: Robert Jensen, “Who is we?” The Ecological Citizen, 4:1 (2020): 57-61. (The version below is slightly revised for a forthcoming book, The Perennial Turn, edited by Bill Vitek.) Who is “we”? We humans have made a mess of things, which is readily evident if we face the avalanche of studies and statistics describing the contemporary […]
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?”
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?” (Natural News) Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed […]
B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets
Conservation North director and ecologist Michelle Connolly sits in front of B.C.’s rare inland rainforest, which it set to be logged for pellets this winter. Photo: Sean O’Rourke NEWS B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets Prince George plant will grind ancient cedar and hemlock into pellets to […]
Economy vs. environment: York Region seeking a process to develop Greenbelt lands
Economy vs. environment: York Region seeking a process to develop Greenbelt lands Newmarket mayor says public should be consulted after environmentalists sound alarm York Region councillors voted Thursday to ask the province to open up parts of the Greenbelt to developers — but a vocal few are saying the public should have been consulted first. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh VI It’s truly unfortunate that our society pursues such self-evidently egregious exploits on our environment. You can’t continue to pollute your backyard without eventually destroying the complex ecological systems that support you — to say little about the finiteness of most resources we overly depend upon. And, certainly, we can’t continue […]
A Strong Case for the Anthropocene: no other species has ever consumed so much of earth’s resources so quickly
A Strong Case for the Anthropocene: no other species has ever consumed so much of earth’s resources so quickly Figure 1. Produced energy and the pattern of human population growth from 1750. Utilization of these energy sources, together with the energy used by humans from net primary production, is now approaching the entire energy available […]
Leaked Document Reveals Exxon’s Plan To Increase Emissions As Energy Space Prepares For Decarbonization
Leaked Document Reveals Exxon’s Plan To Increase Emissions As Energy Space Prepares For Decarbonization As oil majors prioritize their own decarbonization goals, an internal document viewed by Bloomberg reveals Exxon Mobil Corp. is planning to increase annual carbon-dioxide emissions output by as much as a small country like Greece. Exxon is one of the biggest corporate emitters of greenhouse gasses […]
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions
Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions Preface. Below are excerpts from Cardoso, P., et al. 2020. Scientists’ warning to humanity on insect extinctions. Biological Conservation. *** Highlights: We are pushing many ecosystems beyond recovery, resulting in insect extinctions. Causes are habitat loss, pollution, invasives, climate change, and over exploitation. We lose biomass, diversity, unique histories, functions, […]
Ancient Gardens of the North America
“Milpa seca” by Carlos_Citalan is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 on flickr Ancient Gardens of the North America Native Americans, like many other ancient civilisations, were clued in on the inner-workings of nature. They found ways to harmonise with it, taking advantage of biological cycles and utilising astute observation to make abundance seem almost fortuitous. But, it wasn’t […]
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives
Why am I feeling so anxious? The end of modernism arrives A friend of mine quipped that it is one thing to talk about the end of modernism—as the two of us have been doing for over 25 years—and quite another to live through it. It might seem that such notions are far too abstract […]
The US Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Problem Is Catching up With It
The US Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Problem Is Catching up With It For years, the oil and gas industry has been able to downplay, or outright ignore, the problem of methane. Methane is an invisible gas, and lax state and federal regulations in the U.S. have allowed oil and gas producers to self-report how much of this potent […]
The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About
The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About While millions of people are spellbound by false conspiracy theories, the real conspiracies that are wrecking our world go about their business unheeded. Here are five genuine threats that everyone should know about—and take action on. The world is awash in a deluge of dangerous conspiracy theories. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh V Pompeii (1993) Photo by author Yet another of my comments for an article on The Tyee regarding energy and how we should approach our coming dilemmas. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/10/02/BC-Needs-Wartime-Approach-Climate-Emergency/ _____ While I certainly appreciate the need to ‘correct’ our global industrial civilization’s path from its current trajectory there is an obvious ‘problem’ with […]
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute. Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop […]
