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The Propaganda Game & Nothing But Blue Skies
The Propaganda Game & Nothing But Blue Skies COMMENT: I don’t know if anyone has informed you of this, but the UK government is heavily advertising their new Track and Trace app on all platforms. I’ve seen it on Youtube, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Google Ads and not to mention billboards on every street corner and bus […]
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures
The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing fossil fuel energy use for a nation on the basis of either a contracting carbon emission budget […]
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable?
What If Preventing Collapse Isn’t Profitable? The real downside of the green-profit narrative has been that it created the assumption in many people’s minds that the solution to climate change and other environmental dilemmas is technical, and that policy makers and industrialists will implement it for us, so that the way we live doesn’t need […]
THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco
THE INSANITY CONTINUES: Massive Diesel Engines Used To Balance Australia’s Renewable Energy Fiasco How does Australia deal with the terrible and chaotic wind and solar power intermittency problem in its electric grid? How about with massive diesel engines used to power large ships?? Sound crazy? Not in Australia. If a country is going to ramp […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh IV Tulum, Mexico (1986) Photo by author My comment on an article in The Tyee about our federal government’s latest throne speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/09/24/Throne-Speech-Stew/). _____ The idea that a sovereign nation can never run into trouble financially because it can create its own currency is certainly the […]
Edible Weeds on Farms
Edible Weeds on Farms A Free E-book The word “weed” has negative connotations to many people. As such, some humans go about disturbing the landscape, poisoning and removing what they perceive to be valueless plants, a nuisance, a pest. In some cases (if not many) these actions are carried out without fully understanding the true […]
Building Bioregional Food Systems Post-COVID 19: The Northeast Healthy Soil Network & the power of regional food system reform consortium work
Building Bioregional Food Systems Post-COVID 19: The Northeast Healthy Soil Network & the power of regional food system reform consortium work If the public demands it, we have all we need to build a regional food system in the Northeast. Thanks to COVID, the people are demanding it. COVID-19 has reminded us, perhaps as never […]
The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled)
The ‘new normal’ has been postponed (and probably canceled) There remains a hope that once we get past the economic and social effects of the pandemic, all of us will be able to return to something resembling normal life before the pandemic—even if it is a “new normal” marked by heightened vigilance and protection against […]
What Are Your ‘Ecological Virtues?’
What Are Your ‘Ecological Virtues?’ For example, are you performing ‘just acts,’ or just performing? A new book of essays invites readers to reflect. ‘If one strives to live a life worthy of the mountain by challenging the systems that threaten its beauty, one must reform one’s internal habitus…’ Photo of Mount Fairweather via Shutterstock. As […]
Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick?
Is the Green Deal a card shuffle trick? (NOTE; this is not an analysis of the US New Green Deal, it is about the “green growth” narrative with the European Green Deal as the point of departure.) The European Green Deal is a ”growth strategy that aims to transform the EU into a fair and prosperous […]
“Powerful” Hurricane Teddy Strengthens To Cat 4 With Canada In Crosshairs; Tropical Depression 22 Forms In Gulf
“Powerful” Hurricane Teddy Strengthens To Cat 4 With Canada In Crosshairs; Tropical Depression 22 Forms In Gulf The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is closely monitoring “powerful” Hurricane Teddy as it continues to churn in the Atlantic Ocean and could make landfall in Canada early next week. As of 0500 ET Friday, Teddy is generating 130 mph winds (Category 4) […]
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate
Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions are Fate Mill, Halsey, Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. I developed a model of Global Warming based on the anthropogenic perturbation of the Carbon Cycle. The essence of this model is a rate equation for the evolution of the carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration in the atmosphere. The interesting results from this model […]
