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Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis Bowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, announced in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, that for the first […]
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth
Pandenomics: a story of life versus growth The clash between business-as-usual economics and the pandemic shows what we really need from our economy. I’ve been thinking a lot about breathing, recently: how our organisms take life-supporting oxygen from Earth’s clement atmosphere, and exhale waste carbon dioxide back out. I’ve been thinking about how pleasant and […]
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system? In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether this is a short-term reaction to the crisis or a prelude to more significant shortages as global trade […]
Powerful T-Storms Threaten 60 Million Americans As “Squall Lines” Could Produce Twisters
Powerful T-Storms Threaten 60 Million Americans As “Squall Lines” Could Produce Twisters Widespread severe thunderstorms are expected to develop on Tuesday from Texas to Wisconsin, unleashing damaging winds, torrential rain, hail, and the threat of tornadoes in some regions. “An upper-level trough will dig southeastward from the northern Plains into the central Plains today. An […]
Chinagate is the New Russiagate
Chinagate is the New Russiagate I’ve become convinced the next major event that’ll be used to further centralize power and escalate domestic authoritarianism will center around U.S.-China tensions. We haven’t witnessed this “event” yet, but there’s a good chance it’ll occur within the next year or two. Currently, the front runner appears to be a […]
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live Interest in local growing is exploding while funds shrink. Interest in growing food has exploded during the COVID-19 crisis, but not everyone has access to a yard or even a balcony. Community gardens play a crucial role for both households and food security organizations. But […]
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 […]
