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Failure to Plant Crops
Failure to Plant Crops COMMENT: Good day from Chatham, Ontario Canada (50 miles east of Detroit 42.4048° N, 82.1910° W);Interesting your models are warning of the next year’s results in climate change. Our location is always the first to plant in Canada as it is the same latitude as northern California.A few climate tidbits; – As […]
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities
How Removing Asphalt Is Softening Our Cities Greening alleys reclaims public space, reconnects urban dwellers to one another, and invites nature deep into cities. Rachel Schutz hated watching the kids play outside, and not because she was a curmudgeon. As director of an after-school program in a Latino neighborhood near Portland, Oregon, she likes the […]
THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam
THE MASSIVE 46 STORY TALL STRUCTURE: The Penasquito Mine Tailings Dam The colossal Penasquito Mine’s tailings dam will reach a stunning height of a 46 story skyscraper over the next decade. That is, if the mine reopens and is allowed to continue business as usual. Newmont-Goldcorp suspended operations at Mexico’s second largest silver mine on […]
WHO’s 2050 Prediction: 10 Million People Could Die from Mutated Superbugs And We’ll Have No Drugs to Fight Them
WHO’s 2050 Prediction: 10 Million People Could Die from Mutated Superbugs And We’ll Have No Drugs to Fight Them The discovery and widespread use of antibiotics many decades ago have saved millions of lives. Infections that were once a death sentence were easily treated with the medications. Unfortunately, many antibiotics are now becoming ineffective because […]
Climate Change was No Accident
Climate Change was No Accident Years ago, tobacco companies discovered the link between their products and lung cancer. Did they warn their customers? No — they denied the link entirely, misleading the public for decades while killing their customers. Similarly, ExxonMobil scientists made startlingly accurate predictionsabout climate change as early as 1982 — and then spent millions […]
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos
The Interlocking Crises: War and Climate Chaos U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin Climate change is the apex crisis of all time and the US military is the prime crisis […]
Radioactive ‘Nuclear Coffin’ May Be Leaking Into The Pacific
Radioactive ‘Nuclear Coffin’ May Be Leaking Into The Pacific UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has sounded the alarm over a giant concrete dome built 40 years ago in the Marshall Islands to contain radioactive waste from Cold War-era atomic tests. According to Guterres, the dome – which houses approximately 73,000 cubic meters of debris on Runit island, […]
From despair to repair
From despair to repair I belong to an online climate discussion group that today asked three questions: what is the state of the movement, do we need climate change or system change, and do we need a meta-movement? Keying off the insights from the Earth Repair Conference, I wrote the following – and have added […]
Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66%
Total Catastrophe For U.S. Corn Production: Only 30% Of U.S. Corn Fields Have Been Planted – 5 Year Average Is 66% 2019 is turning out to be a nightmare that never ends for the agriculture industry. Thanks to endless rain and unprecedented flooding, fields all over the middle part of the country are absolutely soaked […]
Plastics Industry on Track to Burn Through 14% of World’s Remaining Carbon Budget: New Report
Plastics Industry on Track to Burn Through 14% of World’s Remaining Carbon Budget: New Report The plastics industry plays a major — and growing — role in climate change, according to a report published today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). By 2050, making and disposing of plastics could be responsible for a cumulative 56 […]
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns
Timidity and Palliatives While the Planet Burns Photograph Source: Eric Fisk – Public Domain The best conditions for genuine discussion, for me at least, is during a feast of good food and drink. Ancient Greeks called that symposium. The wisdom behind the tradition of symposium – millennia ago and today — is simple. Friends and […]
How A Sustainable Food System Is Built
How A Sustainable Food System Is Built From the ground up. We all eat food. Most of us every day. Most of us several times a day. Food is undoubtedly one of the most constant and impactful aspects of our lives. And the ways that we produce — and consume it— are impactful as well. We all know about climate change. Agricultural activities […]
Toward Climate-Catalyzed Social Transformation?
Toward Climate-Catalyzed Social Transformation? Applying the work of Erik Olin Wright to emergent climate change movements helps us to understand current trajectories and possible pathways for transformation. In the past weeks, Extinction Rebellion has continued to make news headlines with acts of protest in London, Boston, New York and other cities across the globe. In London, thousands of activists blocked roads and […]
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain?
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain? The Tyee asked global experts, and got some surprising answers. How does Canada rate in fighting climate change? Better than most countries, especially ones where fossil fuels drive politics. Terribly for the world, because if every country copied Canada, that would ensure climate catastrophe. That’s the […]
It’s confirmed. It really is an emergency
It’s confirmed. It really is an emergency The latest report that charts the accelerating impacts of global warming, climate change, and mankind’s destructive impact on the natural environment lays out a grim future for over a million of the planet’s species. This warning follows hot on the heels of a Canadian government assessment that forecasts […]
