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Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t
Why is Going Green So Hard? Because the System Isn’t Every year around Earth Day, I’m reminded of papers I graded in an environmental sociology class. The assignment was to assess your values, explain how you thought you would live as an adult (about 20 years in the future), and then complete an online calculator […]
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems
The Blue Ocean Event and Collapsing Ecosystems Photograph by P J Hansen – CC BY-SA 2.0 Sometime in the near future it is highly probable that the Arctic will no longer have sea ice, meaning zero ice for the first time in eons, aka: the Blue Ocean Event. Surely, the world is not prepared for the […]
Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change
Image: Shutterstock Western Industrial Farming Is Eating Our Forests and Accelerating Climate Change The dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries. Humans are eating the world’s forests. Not directly, of course—but a spate of new studies shows we might as well be. This is, […]
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry
‘Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,’ West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shale gas extraction and petrochemical industry development near the natural gas-rich Marcellus Shale. Why should […]
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides
EU Threatens to Legalize Human Harm From Pesticides ILSI-Europe Headquarters, Brussels. Photo: PAN Europe Current EU regulations forbid human exposure to pesticides that are classified as mutagenic, carcinogenic, reprotoxic (toxic for reproduction), persistent or capable of disrupting endocrine systems. By virtue of these and other protective measures EU regulations are considered the gold standard in […]
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands
Life imitates art: Norway rejects oil prospecting in sensitive Arctic islands In what seemed like an episode of the Norwegian television drama Occupied, Norway’s largest political party joined smaller ones in the nation’s parliament to prevent oil exploration in the scenic Lofoten archipelago. The Labor Party’s environmental wing made climate change and scenic beauty big issues. Unlike another […]
Hydropower dams and the ways they destroy the environment
Hydropower dams and the ways they destroy the environment Preface. Hydropower comprises 71% of renewable energy worldwide. Nations like the U.S. and Europe have dams that have reached the end of their lifespan, so more are being torn down than built. In the U.S. 546 dams were removed between 2006 and 2014. This contains excerpts […]
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding
World Bank criticised for coal, oil and gas funding While the influential development bank has scaled up clean energy finance, fossil fuels are still getting a larger share of support, campaigners found The World Bank is supporting the controversial Trans Anatolian Pipeline gas project (Pic: Tanap) The World Bank Group faces criticism for continuing to […]
Climate Change Parallax
Climate Change Parallax There exists a very seductive delusion that once we cool (or heat) the planet to the proper temperature that the majority of our ecological ills will be over. This is a dangerous self-dectption. “Climate change” per se is not the problem. Temperature fluctuations (increases) reflect underlying carnage caused to nature by excessive […]
State of Apocalyptic Nature: A Contract with Gaia
State of Apocalyptic Nature: A Contract with Gaia As for the individual, every one is a son of his time; so philosophy also is its time apprehended in thoughts. It is just as foolish to fancy that any philosophy can transcend its present world, as that an individual could leap out of his time or […]
Glaciers’ global melt may leave Alps bare
Glaciers’ global melt may leave Alps bare Across much of the world, the ice is trickling off the peaks. Image: By Raul Taciu on Unsplash High mountain ice is vital to millions. As the world warms, the glaciers’ global melt could see the frozen peaks vanish. LONDON, 12 April, 2019 – Many of the planet’s most scenic – and most […]
With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action
With Youth Climate Actions Backed by Leading Experts, Latest Round of Protests Highlights Call for Bold and Urgent Action “We can change it all if we want it all, and we do.” Protesters hold signs at the YouthStrike4Climate student march on April 12, 2019 in London. Students are protesting across the U.K. due to the […]
Trump Signs Ambitious EMP Preparedness Executive Order
Trump Signs Ambitious EMP Preparedness Executive Order After years of the government blowing off concerns about an electromagnetic pulse, President Trump has signed an executive order that will put EMP preparedness in the hands of the White House. What’s in the executive order? The Executive Order on Coordinating National Resilience to Electromagnetic Pulses is a first step […]
The Weakening Of Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Greatly Accelerated, And That Could Have Apocalyptic Implications For All Of Us
The Weakening Of Earth’s Magnetic Field Has Greatly Accelerated, And That Could Have Apocalyptic Implications For All Of Us Earth’s magnetic field is getting significantly weaker, the magnetic north pole is shifting at an accelerating pace, and scientists readily admit that a sudden pole shift could potentially cause “trillions of dollars” in damage. Today, most […]
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending
The Failures of Farming and the Necessity of Wildtending Kollibri terre Sonnenblume came through Saint Paul late last year and I will never forget his eye contact. It was steady and intimate. He was unafraid of what judgements lay on the other side. I tried my best to keep it, but rather sheepishly, turned away […]
