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American Soil Is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners
American Soil Is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches of that “heartland” is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans […]
“It Looks Like A War Zone” – Millions Without Power As Tornadoes Rip Through Ohio & Indiana
“It Looks Like A War Zone” – Millions Without Power As Tornadoes Rip Through Ohio & Indiana More than 5 million people were left without power after a series of tornadoes ripped through parts of Ohio and Indiana late Monday, destroying homes and severing power lines – the latest installment in a two-week span of powerful tornadoes […]
At Vancouver’s Clean Energy Summit, Nuclear Is Making a Play
At Vancouver’s Clean Energy Summit, Nuclear Is Making a Play Note to ministers from 25 nations: Prepare to be dangerously greenwashed. This week Vancouver is host to a summit of ministers from over 25 countries gathered “to accelerate progress toward a clean energy future.” Created in 2010, the Clean Energy Ministerial describes itself as a “high-level global forum to […]
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency
Dear Journalists of Canada: Start Reporting Climate Change as an Emergency A five-point plan for mainstream media to cover fewer Royal babies and a lot more of our unfolding global catastrophe. To:Karyn Pugliese, president, Canadian Association of JournalistsMartin O’Hanlon, president, CWA CanadaFiona Conway, president, Radio Television Digital News AssociationJohn Hinds, president and chief executive officer, […]
“Pig Ebola” Epidemic Threatens To Unleash Stagflation Across China
“Pig Ebola” Epidemic Threatens To Unleash Stagflation Across China With Chinese pigs getting slaughtering left and right to contain the breakout of African swine fever, also known as “Pig Ebola”, so are pork shorts as meat processors around the world scramble to sell more pork to China to make up for sharp shortages of China’s […]
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers. Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many […]
CO2 emissions: The trend is not your friend
CO2 emissions: The trend is not your friend When the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported in late March that energy consumption in 2018 rose at the fastest rate in a decade, it confirmed something that most of those who truly understand the climate crisis already know: Collectively, humanity is making almost no progress in doing anything significant […]
They’ve Stolen Our Future!
They’ve Stolen Our Future! Collapse is in the cards It’s time to have a serious conversation. I know we’ve been having it, but maybe there’s another glove hidden beneath the one we’ve already taken off. Put bluntly, there doesn’t seem to be any hope of avoiding a collapse of civilization. The forces of the Business-As-Usual […]
Superbugs and the Ultimate Economic Weapon: Food
Superbugs and the Ultimate Economic Weapon: Food The food-exporting superpowers are easy to identify. As my esteemed colleague Michael Snyder chronicled in a recent Zero Hedge post, world agricultural production is under assault from extreme weather and diseases such as African swine fever. Floods & Drought Devastate Crops All Over The Planet; Is A Global Food Crisis Be Coming? […]
Book review of Jaczko’s “Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator”
Book review of Jaczko’s “Confessions of a rogue nuclear regulator” Preface. After presenting a lot of evidence for why nuclear power plants are inherently unsafe, Jaczko concludes: “There is only one logical answer: we must stop generating nuclear waste, and that means we must stop using nuclear power. You would think that it would make […]
First, Climate Change, Now the Global Extinction Crisis: Industry-Paid Hacks Deny Science to Congress
First, Climate Change, Now the Global Extinction Crisis: Industry-Paid Hacks Deny Science to Congress In this week’s Congressional hearing on the recent (and dire) UN Global Assessment of Biodiversity, conservation scientist Dr. Jacob Malcom did not mince words as he explained the report’s startling findings that one million species are at risk of extinction. “We are, as you have heard, […]
War is War on Mother Earth
War is War on Mother Earth Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair “In order to achieve the massive systemic and cultural transformations required for mitigating climate change…we’re going to have to deal with the socially sanctioned, institutionalized violence perpetrated by U.S. foreign policy that is pouring fuel on the fire of global warming.” – Stacy Bannerman Climate […]
Visualizing How Much Oil Is In An Electric Vehicle?
Visualizing How Much Oil Is In An Electric Vehicle? When most people think about oil and natural gas, the first thing that comes to mind is the gas in the tank of their car. But, as Visual Capitalist’s Nicholas LePan notes, there is actually much more to oil’s role, than meets the eye… Oil, along with […]
After Reading This Article About The Danger Of GMOs, You Will Probably Never Want To Eat Genetically-Modified Food Again
After Reading This Article About The Danger Of GMOs, You Will Probably Never Want To Eat Genetically-Modified Food Again Every single day, most Americans eagerly gobble down foods that contain ingredients that have been genetically-modified without ever considering the consequences. Most of us simply assume that the federal government would never allow us to eat […]
Canada’s Cars Are World’s Worst Gas Guzzlers, but BC May Be Tipping Point
Canada’s Cars Are World’s Worst Gas Guzzlers, but BC May Be Tipping Point Surge in electric vehicle sales a silver lining to high pump prices. [Editor’s note: Accelerating gasoline prices in B.C. have triggered an investigationby the B.C. Utilities Commission and are helping to fuel a boom in electric vehicle sales in the province. Refining more crude locally […]
