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How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans
How Waste Due to the Coronavirus Is Hurting Our Oceans In an attempt to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus, millions of people are donning plastic masks, gloves and other types of personal protective equipment. From restaurant staff to medical personnel, workers and the general public are using and discarding thousands of single-use plastic […]
Global Warming and Cooling After CO2 Shutoff at +1.5°C
Global Warming and Cooling After CO2 Shutoff at +1.5°C I have done further analytical modeling of global warming, using the same general method described earlier. The question addressed now is: what is the trend of temperature change after an abrupt shutoff of all CO2 emissions just as the net temperature rise (relative to year 1910) reaches +1.5°C, […]
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health
Nature’s antivirals: Top 5 antiviral agents that help boost immune health (Natural News) Scientists are scrambling to fast-track a cure for COVID-19, the highly infectious respiratory disease that’s still currently spreading throughout the globe. In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been conducting clinical trials for a potential COVID-19 drug since April, but to no […]
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists
Capitalism is destroying ‘safe operating space’ for humanity, warn scientists The COVID19 pandemic has exposed a strange anomaly in the global economy. If it doesn’t keep growing endlessly, it just breaks. Grow, or die. But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions […]
‘Normal Is the Problem’
‘Normal Is the Problem’ So is normal’s idiot child, ‘the new normal.’ What we’ve made normal never was natural. Sharon Wilson is a fifth-generation Texan who drives around rural communities and takes pictures of oil and gas facilities with an infrared camera. The pictures make visible all the methane pollution that industry and governments pretend […]
Scientists’ warning on affluence
Scientists’ warning on affluence Abstract For over half a century, worldwide growth in affluence has continuously increased resource use and pollutant emissions far more rapidly than these have been reduced through better technology. The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to […]
Weekly Commentary: Update COVID-19
Weekly Commentary: Update COVID-19 Can we even attempt a reasonable discussion? Someone’s got this wrong. June 12 – Reuters (Judy Hua, Cate Cadell, Winni Zhou and Andrew Galbraith): “A Beijing district put itself on a ‘wartime’ footing and the capital banned tourism and sports events on Saturday after a cluster of novel coronavirus infections centred […]
Vatican Asks Catholics to Ditch Fossil Fuel Investments
Vatican Asks Catholics to Ditch Fossil Fuel Investments The Vatican urged Catholics to closely consider where they invest their money and to take a close look at the environmental impact of the companies they may be shareholders in, as Reuters reported. Pope Francis has frequently criticized wanton greed that has led to environmental degradation and a climate crisis that […]
The International Energy Agency has Joined the Conspiracy Against the World
The International Energy Agency has Joined the Conspiracy Against the World The International Energy Agency has joined the conspiracy outlining a $3 trillion plan to restart the global economy while cutting greenhouse gas emissions, saying that governments have a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to create jobs while decarbonizing infrastructure. Their highly questionable economist Fatih Birol has suddenly come out […]
Is Trudeau Hiding Environmental Data Calling Top Secret Because it Exposes his Government?
Is Trudeau Hiding Environmental Data Calling Top Secret Because it Exposes his Government? In Canada, the Trudeau government is refusing to release carbon tax data, saying it is top secret so that Canadians are unable to see the findings of the report. This is pretty standard for if it supported their agenda, they would be […]
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants
The U.S. May Soon Have the World’s Oldest Nuclear Power Plants Preface. This is nuts. Sea level rise threatens many nuclear power plants and drought has shut plants down since they need cooling to operate. As nuclear reactor age, they require more intensive monitoring and preventive maintenance to operate safely. But reactor owners have not […]
Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC
Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline spilled as many as 190,000 liters (approximately 50,193 gallons) of crude oil in Abbotsford, British Columbia (BC) Saturday, reinforcing concerns about the safety of the pipeline’s planned expansion. Chief Dalton Silver of the Sumas First Nation told CTV News that the spill occurred on […]
Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics
TRAGEDIES OF OUR TIME: PANDEMIC, PLANNING, AND RACIAL POLITICS An old adage says that tragedies often come in threes. Certainly, the first half of 2020 has seen a version of this. First, the coronavirus that has infected millions of people and killed hundreds of thousands. Second, the response by most governments to the virus by […]
On Maintaining Perspective In The Year 20 Fucking 20
On Maintaining Perspective In The Year 20 Fucking 20 “As Jane looked around her, she felt that dissatisfied feeling she often experienced when she was somewhere new and lovely. She couldn’t quite articulate it, except with the words: if only I was here. This little beachside cafe was so exquisite she longed to really be there, […]
How to Recognize Desertification and Drought Day
How to Recognize Desertification and Drought Day More than 2 billion hectares of previously productive land is degraded. For Desertification and Drought Day on June 17, DW spoke with Ibrahim Thiaw, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). DW: What do you want people to know about this year’s desertification day? Ibrahim Thiaw: […]
