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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 […]
What’s the Difference Between a Low-Carbon and Zero-Carbon Future? Survival
What’s the Difference Between a Low-Carbon and Zero-Carbon Future? Survival Governments, media and industry use ‘low-carbon economy’ frame to continue business as usual. “The finance ministry reckons that even with the estimated $6 billion in relief over 40 years, the province would still reap $22 billion in revenues over the same period. Without the project, […]
Radioactive Fukushima Particles Found In Alaska’s Bering Strait
Radioactive Fukushima Particles Found In Alaska’s Bering Strait Radioactive particles from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have drifted as far north as a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Strait, according to scientists at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Seawater collected last year near St. Lawrence Island contained a slight elevation in levels […]
Carbon emissions reach record: How can we build solidarity to fight climate change?
Carbon emissions reach record: How can we build solidarity to fight climate change? When carbon emissions appeared to level off from 2014 through 2016, some people were hopeful that industrial civilization just might be able to decouple carbon emissions from economic growth. After all, the world economy had been growing and yet carbon emissions had not […]
Midwest Apocalypse: According To Satellite Data, “At Least 1 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland” Have Been Devastated By Floods
Midwest Apocalypse: According To Satellite Data, “At Least 1 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland” Have Been Devastated By Floods We have never seen anything like this before. According to satellite data that was just released by Reuters, “at least 1 million acres of U.S. farmland” were covered by water for at least seven days this […]
How Citizens Can Stop the Big Five’s Disastrous Fossil Fuel Funding
How Citizens Can Stop the Big Five’s Disastrous Fossil Fuel Funding Canada’s major banks have financed $464 billion worth of fossil fuel projects since 2016. My first bank account was with RBC, back when they were still into being called “Royal.” I didn’t so much as choose them as just follow my parents, like you […]
Court Battles Reveal ‘Fundamental Incoherence’ in Trudeau’s Climate Policies, Says Campaigner
Court Battles Reveal ‘Fundamental Incoherence’ in Trudeau’s Climate Policies, Says Campaigner Ottawa praises BC’s green leadership, while fighting provincial legal case on Trans Mountain expansion. The federal government’s treatment of British Columbia shows the Trudeau Liberals’ “incoherence” on climate change, says an environmental campaigner. On one hand, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is calling B.C. an […]
