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The Unspoken Reason for Lockdowns
The Unspoken Reason for Lockdowns Governments cannot openly admit that the “controlled easing” of COVID-19 lockdowns in fact means controlled progress toward so-called herd immunity to the virus. Much better, then, to pursue this objective silently, under a cloud of obfuscation, and hope that a vaccine will arrive before most of the population gets infected. […]
Victor Gorshkov: a life for the biosphere.
Victor Gorshkov: a life for the biosphere. The basic concept of the biotic regulation of Earth’s temperature according to Gorshkov et al, 2002. The figure shows the potential function U(T) for the global mean surface temperature. Stable states correspond to pits, unstable states to hills. The modern value of +15°C (288 K) approximately corresponds to an unstable […]
Lethal or Contagious
Lethal or Contagious There was this comment at the Automatic Earth yesterday that got me thinking. It was sort of wrapped in a bit of -more- innuendo about health officials not getting the results they were looking for in COVID19 numbers, as if the whole virus event is some goal-seeked conspiracy. You’ll be familiar with […]
How Can Socrates Forecast Thing Well in Advance?
How Can Socrates Forecast Thing Well in Advance? QUESTION: Martin –In the video link you see the blank answer by former Fed Chairman Bernanke when asked, in a 60 Minutes interview, as to where he saw unemployment going/peaking in the last crisis of 2008 (at minute 3:27). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKx1BZd9bjQHow do you best explain Socrates being able to […]
End Game for Green Utopia
End Game for Green Utopia Wind Turbines, Tehachapi Pass. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. On these two opposing types of responses to the movie “Planet Of The Humans”: PRO: “The key, however, is that all these [‘greenish’] energy policies have to be carried out after capitalism has been wiped out and under conditions where production is […]
The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away”
The Perpetual Crisis: Now The WHO Is Telling Us That COVID-19 “May Never Go Away” Are you ready for “the new normal” to become permanent? Originally, most of us assumed that “shelter-in-place orders” and “social distancing restrictions” would just be temporary, but now top health officials are warning us that some of these temporary measures […]
6 of the Most Sustainable Meat Alternatives
6 of the Most Sustainable Meat Alternatives After the coronavirus spread through a number of slaughterhouses in Germany and the United States, some people might be asking themselves how they can replace meat in their diets. Perhaps they’re worried that meat production could collapse if facilities are in lockdown. Or maybe ethical reasons are their main concern. […]
Understanding Our Pandemic – Economy Predicament
Understanding Our Pandemic – Economy Predicament The world’s number one problem today is that the world’s population is too large for its resource base. Some people have called this situation overshoot. The world economy is ripe for a major change, such as the current pandemic, to bring the situation into balance. The change doesn’t necessarily come from […]
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption?
What does COVID-19 mean for sustainable consumption? Our priorities shift when the wolf is at the door, Iona Murphy writes about the impact of the current crisis. It’s quite understandable that people may not have the headspace for sustainability right now. Nonetheless, we’re currently on a hiatus from consumerism—will it last? Back in the beginning […]
New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth, Improves Health and Wellbeing
New Zealand Deprioritizes Growth, Improves Health and Wellbeing Last May, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern released a budget to improve the “wellbeing” of its citizens rather than focusing on productivity and GDP growth. And not so coincidentally, New Zealand has one of the best coronavirus outcomes of any democracy in the world. Perhaps this […]
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine If we get one, great. But here’s why we can’t count on it and what that means. Every day politicians promise eventual relief from the threat of COVID-19 with a vaccine. An unprecedented scientific race to develop more than 100 of them is now underway. But don’t roll up your […]
The lockdown air-freshener?
The lockdown air-freshener? The Covid-19 pandemic has cleared the city streets. But who foresaw that it would dramatically clean the urban air? One unexpected consequence of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic has been the extraordinary reduction in urban air pollution in cities where the majority of the population have been required to stay […]
Second Wave? China Orders ‘Partial Lockdown’ Of Border City; Seoul’s Newest Cluster Explodes To 120 Cases: Live Updates
Second Wave? China Orders ‘Partial Lockdown’ Of Border City; Seoul’s Newest Cluster Explodes To 120 Cases: Live Updates Summary: VW ‘pauses’ manufacturing of VW Golf, SUVs China imposes ‘partial lockdown’ on northeastern border city SK’s ‘Itaewon’ cluster climbs to 120 Germany, Austria agree to reopen mutual border Global cases: 4.22 million Global deaths: 291,519 Poland […]
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook
Pandemic, Lockdowns, Fake and Manipulated Markets – Gold and Silver Outlook Watch Video Update (Live 12/05/2020 ◆ The massive global debt driven “Everything Bubble” is bursting due to the pandemic and more specifically the governments draconian economic lockdowns◆ A dollar crisis is inevitable with U.S. government debt surging by some $2 trillion in a matter of weeks […]
Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing
Small deaths and the real death: how humans are failing Guest post by Federico TabelliniThis article was originally published last year on the Italian blog ‘Effetto Cassandra’. I repropose it here because I think the coronavirus crisis has made it somehow more relevant. The current situation raises new questions: is this new crisis just another ‘small death’ […]
