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Why People Fail to Understand There are Cycles to Everything
Why People Fail to Understand There are Cycles to Everything There tends to be a fairly regular 21-year cycle in extreme climate shifts with respect to volatility. There was the extreme cold of 1936, followed 21 years later with a heatwave that melted the ice in the arctic, and then going into 1978 they were […]
Oops! Gene editing not as precise as advertised
Oops! Gene editing not as precise as advertised Sometimes a headline gives you practically the entire story. Take this one: “Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find.” The writer details how this happens, of course. And, there is an important subtext. The problem is chalked up by scientists and regulators to […]
Climate Change That Ignores History
Climate Change That Ignores History Climate has ALWAYS changed from decade to decade. There were major swings (volatility) during the 1930s. You had the dust bowl during the summer and in 1936 you had record cold. The 1936 North American cold wave, which also hit Japan and China, still rank among the most intense cold waves in […]
CIA, Climate And Conspiracy: More Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
CIA, Climate And Conspiracy: More Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Take off the revolutionary’s mask, and it’s the CIA.Take off the terrorist’s mask, and it’s the CIA.Take off the news man’s mask, and it’s the CIA.Take off the filmmaker’s mask, and it’s the CIA.Take off the professor’s mask, and it’s the CIA.Take […]
Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon.
Want To Save The Environment? De-Fund The Pentagon. Millions of people are uniting in demonstrations worldwide against our civilization’s ecocidal march toward extinction, which makes me so happy to see. It’s really encouraging to see so many young people burning with love for their planet and a hunger to reverse the damage that has been done to […]
Canadian industry is ‘addicted to fossil fuels,’ but the Green Party can change that, says Elizabeth May
Canadian industry is ‘addicted to fossil fuels,’ but the Green Party can change that, says Elizabeth May Goal isn’t to come up with something politically palatable, it’s to secure future: May Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says Canadians want action on climate change, but are stymied by living in a society “hardwired to fossil fuel […]
More talk and little action
More talk and little action The grim reality is that Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech lambasting global leaders at the UN climate summit in New York on September 23 is unlikely to make much of a difference in the way the largest global polluters do business. The top emitters aren’t bothered: the US didn’t show up; China yawned; […]
Arctic Express Coming to the Northwest
Arctic Express Coming to the Northwest If you live in western Washington, you might want to check that your heating system still works. If you live in eastern Washington on the slopes of the Cascades, you might want to make sure you have a snow shovel. If you live in western Montana, you might want […]
The Illusion of Saving the World
The Illusion of Saving the World At the end of this month, as you probably know by now, an extraordinary hoopla event will descend on Manhattan in the form of a “Climate Action Summit,” summoned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to get the nations of the world finally to take seriously the threat of […]
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – ‘The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures’ – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: “As the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture’s profits, the next generation of […]
Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike!
Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike! Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A very large chasm exists between those in power, including most of the 2020 presidential candidates, and environmentalists and scientists intent on acting now to resolve growing environmental crises. To reiterate what is known, the United Nations, through its IPCC and the IPBES committees, has […]
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less
The Radical Plan to Save the Planet by Working Less The degrowth movement wants to intentionally shrink the economy to address climate change, and create lives with less stuff, less work, and better well-being. But is it a utopian fantasy? In 1972, a team at MIT published The Limits to Growth, a report that predicted what […]
The Word for World is Forest
The Word for World is Forest Every book by Ursula Le Guin is by definition the best book by Ursula Le Guin. And there is no book by Ursula Le Guin that’s not the best book by Ursula Le Guin. But this one, “The Word for World is Forest” may be even better than that! I […]
North America’s Bird Population Is Collapsing – Nearly 3 Billion Birds Have Been Wiped Out Since 1970
North America’s Bird Population Is Collapsing – Nearly 3 Billion Birds Have Been Wiped Out Since 1970 All around us, our world is literally in a state of collapse, but most people don’t seem to care. I spend much of my time writing about the inevitable collapse of our economic and financial systems, but they […]
A Sea Change Moment?
A Sea Change Moment? Tomorrow begins Global Climate Strike Week, led by young people to demand urgent action to address the climate emergency. What many hope will be a sea change moment in the struggle to mobilize a real response to this existential threat had a humble start a year ago when a young Swedish student, Greta […]
