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California’s central valley aquifers may be gone in 2030s, Ogallala 2050-2070
California’s central valley aquifers may be gone in 2030s, Ogallala 2050-2070 Preface. Clearly the human population isn’t going to reach 10 billion or more. California grows one-third of the nation’s food, the 10 high-plains states over the Ogallala about a quarter of the nations food, and exports a great deal of food other nations as […]
Food Crisis 2019: An Outbreak Of African Swine Fever Is Devastating The Global Pig Population, And Pork Prices Are Skyrocketing
Food Crisis 2019: An Outbreak Of African Swine Fever Is Devastating The Global Pig Population, And Pork Prices Are Skyrocketing An absolutely devastating disease is wiping out herds of pigs all over Asia, and most people in the western world don’t even realize what is happening. Since it was first detected last August, there have […]
Designing Climate Solutions – a big-picture view that doesn’t skimp on details
Designing Climate Solutions – a big-picture view that doesn’t skimp on details Let us pause for a moment of thanks to the policy wonks, who work within the limitations of whatever is currently politically permissible and take important steps forward in their branches of bureaucracy. Let us also give thanks to those who cannot work within those […]
Bold New Campaign Highlights How ‘Nature Can Save Us’ From Climate and Ecological Breakdown
Bold New Campaign Highlights How ‘Nature Can Save Us’ From Climate and Ecological Breakdown “The protection and restoration of these ecosystems can help to minimize a sixth great extinction, while enhancing local people’s resilience against climate disaster.” A new campaign launched Wednesday calls for “drawing carbon dioxide out of the air by protecting and restoring […]
The tide is turning, as farmworkers fight for organic agriculture
The tide is turning, as farmworkers fight for organic agriculture Many people choose organic food in order to protect themselves and their families from exposure to pesticides. But choosing organic also means helping to create a healthier food system for everyone, from farm to table. Far too often, discussions about pesticides in the food system […]
How State Power Regulators Are Making Utilities Account for the Costs of Climate Change
How State Power Regulators Are Making Utilities Account for the Costs of Climate Change The electricity powering your computer or smartphone that makes it possible for you to read this article could come from one of several sources. It’s probably generated by burning natural gas or coal or from operating a nuclear reactor, unless it’s derived […]
Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal?
Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal? Pulp mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Same ol’ same ol’ battle: The more things change, the more they stay the same On August 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that “…many scientists say deep emissions cuts are necessary … to prevent … dangerous consequences of global warming,” and also reported […]
Hyperinflation History May Provide Valuable Lessons for Fed’s “Target”
From Birch Gold Group Hyperinflation History May Provide Valuable Lessons for Fed’s “Target” In April of 1980 inflation peaked at a staggering 14.76%. That same year, the Fed triggered a rise in interest rates to near 20% around the same time, employing the controversial “Volcker Rule.” Paul Solman explained in a 2009 PBS Newshour: If by “interest rates” you […]
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises
Let’s get ‘creaturely’: A new worldview can help us face ecological crises No farmer has ever gone out to the barn to start the day and discovered that a baby tractor had been born overnight. For farmers who work with horses, the birth of a foal would not be surprising. That observation may seem silly, […]
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter
Arctic Permafrost No Longer Freezes … Even in Winter Global warming is starting to hit hard like there’s no tomorrow, and at current rates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, there may not be a tomorrow, as emissions continue setting new records year-by-year, expected to hit a 62-year record in 2019. So much for the Paris […]
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population?
Population Bomb or Bomb the Population? There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, […]
Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal?
Why All the Uproar Over the Green New Deal? Pulp mill, Longview, Washington. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Same ol’ same ol’ battle: The more things change, the more they stay the same On August 21, 2009, The Wall Street Journal reported that “…many scientists say deep emissions cuts are necessary … to prevent … dangerous consequences of global warming,” and also reported […]
A Volcano That Could Completely Cover Mexico City With Volcanic Ash Just Erupted 200 Times In A 24 Hour Period
A Volcano That Could Completely Cover Mexico City With Volcanic Ash Just Erupted 200 Times In A 24 Hour Period The most dangerous volcano in Mexico just erupted 200 times in a 24 hour period, but there has been an almost total blackout about this in the U.S. media. Authorities are saying that the odds […]
