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A ‘Biblical’ Plague Of Locusts Has Put Millions On The Brink Of Famine: “We Have Never, Ever Seen What We Have In The Last Six Months”
A ‘Biblical’ Plague Of Locusts Has Put Millions On The Brink Of Famine: “We Have Never, Ever Seen What We Have In The Last Six Months” Billions upon billions of voracious desert locusts are ravenously devouring crops over a vast portion of the globe that stretches from eastern Africa all the way to India. This […]
Three crises, one solution
Three crises, one solution The paroxysm of anger that has erupted across the US in the wake of the murder of George Floyd has been called by some observers “a tipping point”. A multicultural younger generation is showing that it is genuinely concerned about social injustice, racial inequality, and the climate crisis. The astonishing scenes […]
How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables: A Complete Guide
How to Wash Fruits and Vegetables: A Complete Guide Fresh fruits and vegetables are a healthy way to incorporate vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants into your diet. Before eating fresh fruits and vegetables, it has long been a recommendation to rinse them well with water to remove any unwanted residues from their surfaces. However, given […]
11 Nations that Collapsed because of Drought
11 Nations that Collapsed because of Drought Preface. Recently it was discovered that Assyria collapsed in the 7th century BC. Jeff Masters list ten more civilizations that failed from drought. We may be next, as Lynn Ingram, a professor at U.C. Berkeley discusses in her book: The West without Water: What Past Floods, Droughts, and Other […]
Pandemic, Economic Collapse, Full Societal Breakdown
Pandemic, Economic Collapse, Full Societal Breakdown “And the will of Zeus was moving towards its end.” – Homer Symbiotic Disharmony The recline and flail of western civilization beats on. Pandemic, economic collapse, full societal breakdown. The sequence grooves from one to the next with the symbiotic disharmony of a minor pentatonic scale. Peaceful protests devolved to […]
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks
Food and Agroecology: Coping with Future Shocks The food crisis that could follow in the wake of the various lockdowns that were implemented on the back of the coronavirus may have long-lasting consequences. We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply chains have been disrupted, farm input systems for […]
Regenerative agriculture
Regenerative agriculture Living in a city or out in the suburbs one might not think too much about what it takes to produce the food we eat and why healthy agriculture is so important. But conventional farming is unsustainable: substantial amounts of topsoil are being lost by erosion. Arable land is being degraded and lost. The […]
Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab
Former MI6 Boss Says COVID-19 Manmade, Escaped From Chinese Lab The former head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency believes COVID-19 is a manmade virus that accidentally escaped from a Chinese laboratory, based on forthcoming research, according to The Telegraph. Entitled “A Reconstructed Historical Aetiology of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike”, the new study, seen by The Telegraph, suggests […]
Nuclear waste will last a lot longer than climate change
Nuclear waste will last a lot longer than climate change Preface. One of the most tragic aspects of peak oil is that it is very unlikely once energy descent begins that oil will be expended to clean up our nuclear mess. Or before descent either. Anyone who survives peak fossil fuels and after that, rising […]
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change
Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change Preface. This is a summary of the National Research Council 2013 study of abrupt changes of climate change. Related: 2019-12-6. Research reveals past rapid Antarctic ice loss due to ocean warming. “…the sensitive West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapsed during a warming period just over a million years ago when atmospheric carbon […]
There Will Be No Recovery Without Production
THERE WILL BE NO RECOVERY WITHOUT PRODUCTION Through most of the coronavirus crisis, those who have made the case for stay-at-home, reduce or stop work, and narrow the range of retail shopping to assure “social distancing” to reduce the spread of the virus have accused their critics of being more interested in preserving livelihoods than […]
Our Fate Is Sealed, Vaccines Won’t Matter: Four Long Cycles Align
Our Fate Is Sealed, Vaccines Won’t Matter: Four Long Cycles Align A Covid-19 vaccine, or lack thereof, will have zero effect in terms of reversing these cycles. Call it Fate, call it karma, call it what you will, but the cycles have aligned and nothing can stop the unraveling of all that was foolishly presumed […]
Collecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems
Collecting Clean Water from Polluted Sources with Natural Filtration Systems Being involved with permaculture helps one develop a mild obsession (and that’s putting it mildly) with water. Long before I was a certified designer, just an avid reader of permaculture texts and articles, and a compulsive watcher of Geoff Lawton YouTube videos, I was looking […]
Inspiring Student in France Creates Environmental App to Motivate Others to Make a Difference Daily
Inspiring Student in France Creates Environmental App to Motivate Others to Make a Difference Daily Maxime Leroux, a 19-year-old student in France is creating an online community of people executing one “save” per day for the sake of the planet. OneSave/Day is the name of the free app that is empowering thousands to commit to […]
