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Now is the time to end the climate emergency
Now is the time to end the climate emergency Reading “The Green New Deal and beyond” in the middle of a global crisis In The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, Stan Cox has a message for all who were counting on the Green New Deal to help save […]
Insuring against catastrophe: The coronavirus predicament
Insuring against catastrophe: The coronavirus predicament People insure themselves against many types of potential catastrophes: a house fire, a car accident, the untimely death of a spouse, a serious health problem. For other unexpected expenses, prudent people, as we say, save money “for a rainy day.” For some reason people and governments have chosen not […]
American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants
American Farms Cull Millions Of Chickens Amid Virus-Related Staff Shortages At Processing Plants A significant concern that readers should have during an economic collapse and pandemic is food security. We’ve noted over April that troubling news is developing deep inside America’s food supply chain network, suggesting shortages and rapid food inflation could be ahead. The reason behind the disruptions […]
New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region
New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region New research based on satellite data confirms that the oil and gas industry in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico is leaking record amounts of methane. The new research published in the journal Science Advances found that methane emissions in the Permian Basin were equivalent […]
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives
Covid-19 and Our Competing Narratives It’s fascinating to watch the competing narratives regarding Covid-19 and risk assessment duke it out across the media universe (from social to mainstream to alternate media). As I’ve increasingly come to believe, we all believe what we want to believe. The continuum of beliefs seems to be that: we have […]
David Stockman on the Real Reason Why the Government Shutdown Caused an Economic Collapse
David Stockman on the Real Reason Why the Government Shutdown Caused an Economic Collapse International Man: Is the government’s reaction to COVID-19 worse than the virus itself? What are your thoughts? David Stockman: I think for once, Donald Trump was right when he worried out loud the other day that the cure may be far […]
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak As the virus gripped US plants, the union pleaded for a shutdown. They were rebuffed. Canada’s largest outbreak of COVID-19 swept through two meat-packing plants in southern Alberta two weeks after the provincial government ignored union requests to temporarily close both of the plants. And […]
Pandemic And Economic Collapse: The Next 60 Days
Pandemic And Economic Collapse: The Next 60 Days The news cycle moves so quickly these days writing analysis on current events becomes difficult; the moment you publish an examination of the situation people have already moved on to the next disaster. So, today I’m not going to do that. Instead, let’s look at current trends […]
Why Gardening Starts With Growing Good Soil
Why Gardening Starts With Growing Good Soil For two months now, we’ve been advising readers to “grow a garden” in response to the covid-19 pandemic. We’re recommending that for a number of reasons. Food security is the primary one. Domestically, several of the small number of concentrated players in our Big Ag food supply chain […]
“Scan Your Code!”: Dystopian Post-Lockdown ‘Normal’ In Wuhan Enforced By ‘Anti-Virus Patrols’
“Scan Your Code!”: Dystopian Post-Lockdown ‘Normal’ In Wuhan Enforced By ‘Anti-Virus Patrols’ The industrial hub of over eleven million people and ground zero for the global outbreak, Wuhan, has come roaring back to life but more in the way of a dystopian version of itself after the virus peaked there in February and now with almost no new infections […]
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic
Overpopulation, Nature’s Revenge, & Pandemic Don’t Dismiss the Design Option Has the planet simply had enough of people? Are there are too many of us, and this pandemic is the paramount example? It’s easy to let our minds meander this way, but we have likely had more serious pandemics (Let’s see this one reach its […]
Eight Meatpacking Plants Close In Weeks Across America Stoking Food Shortage Fears
Eight Meatpacking Plants Close In Weeks Across America Stoking Food Shortage Fears Update (April 23): Food shortages across the country are coming a lot quicker than anyone has anticipated. A total of eight meatpacking plants have already gone offline in weeks. On Thursday morning, we noted how pork shortages could hit households by the first week of May. […]
How a pandemic could bring down civilization
How a pandemic could bring down civilization Preface. Some excerpts from the article below: “The fact is that the best way for people to avoid the virus will be to stay home. But if everyone does this – or if too many people try to stockpile supplies after a crisis begins – the impact of […]
Let’s Be Less Productive
Let’s Be Less Productive HAS the pursuit of labor productivity reached its limit? Productivity — the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy — is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic […]
