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Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change
Tomgram: Frida Berrigan, A Mother Swept Away by Climate Change Yes, it’s happening. It really is. And I’m not just thinking about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal and the support it’s getting from Democratic presidential candidates or the controversy it’s generating. I’m also thinking about Washington State Governor Jay Inslee’s entry into the 2020 presidential race on a […]
Saudi Arabia Using 140-Year-Old Loophole To Soak Up California’s Scarce Water Supply
Saudi Arabia Using 140-Year-Old Loophole To Soak Up California’s Scarce Water Supply Saudi Arabia is exploiting a farming loophole in California which allows a tiny, poverty-stricken desert town to use as much water as it needs for agriculture, for free – circumventing harsh water restrictions imposed in the Saudi Kingdom, reports The Guardian. In particular, the Saudis are […]
Are We Running Out of Gold?
Are We Running Out of Gold? Gold has been used for jewelry and currency for thousands of years. It has always served as a source of status and wealth. The reason for its popularity is its rarity. Gold is a finite commodity. There is only so much of the golden metal available, and it can’t […]
200 Million People At Risk: National Weather Service Warns Apocalyptic Midwest Floods Are “A Preview Of What We Expect Throughout The Rest Of The Spring”
200 Million People At Risk: National Weather Service Warns Apocalyptic Midwest Floods Are “A Preview Of What We Expect Throughout The Rest Of The Spring” The flooding that just struck the middle part of the country was the worst blow to U.S. farmers in decades, but now the National Weather Service is telling us that it […]
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament We face a perfect storm of environmental, social, technological, economic, geopolitical and other global stressors. These global stressors interact in unpredictable ways. The pace of future shocks is increasing. The prospect for civilizational collapse is real. We need to build meaningful resilience. There are four questions about […]
Book review of Heinberg’s “Afterburn: society beyond fossil fuels”
Book review of Heinberg’s “Afterburn: society beyond fossil fuels” Preface. This book has 15 essays Heinberg wrote from 2011 to 2014, many of them available for free online. These are some of my Kindle notes of parts that interested me, so to you it will be disjointed and perhaps not what you would have chosen as […]
Hurricanes to Deliver a Bigger Punch to Coasts
Hurricanes to Deliver a Bigger Punch to Coasts When tropical cyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, Mozambique on March 14, a spokesperson for the UN World Meteorological Organization called it possibly the the worst weather-related disaster to hit the southern hemisphere. This massive and horrifying storm caused catastrophic flooding and widespread destruction of buildings and roads in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and […]
Aurora Borealis Warning the Climate May Turn Sharply Colder into 2032
Aurora Borealis Warning the Climate May Turn Sharply Colder into 2032 There may actually be a confirmation that we are heading into a much colder climate. The Aurora Borealis, also known as the Northern Lights, can now be seen in the UK. Normally, the Northern Lights can be seen only extremely north as in Alaska. Sir Edmund […]
Climate Change, Midwest Floods & Food Shortages
Climate Change, Midwest Floods & Food Shortages The Great Flood of 1927, flooded the lower Mississippi River valley in April 1927. It was one of the worst natural disasters in American history. More than 23,000 square miles of land was submerged, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced, and around 250 people died. The flooding impacted […]
Cancer-Causing Chemical Over Houston Channel Sends Hundreds To Hospital
Cancer-Causing Chemical Over Houston Channel Sends Hundreds To Hospital Bloomberg’s update in the wake of the week-long Deer Park oil processing plant fire (now extinguished) and chemical spill holds nothing back, but underscores the seriousness of the situation after both city and Intercontinental Terminals Co. (ITC) previously sought to reassure residents days ago that “everything’s fine”. […]
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay
A Fracking Disaster: BC Failing to Make Polluters Pay Auditor general says oil and gas commission hasn’t ensured companies will pay cleanup costs. The polluter-pay approach isn’t working in British Columbia’s oil and gas patch. The province’s energy regulator hasn’t secured enough money from companies to cover the estimated $3-billion cleanup costs for 10,672 inactive […]
Not-So-Superfood? Pesticide Residue Found In 70% Of US Produce & 92% Of Kale
Not-So-Superfood? Pesticide Residue Found In 70% Of US Produce & 92% Of Kale Roughly 70% of all produce sold in the U.S. has pesticide residue in it, even after it is washed, according to a new report from the Guardian. According to data from the US Department of Agriculture and analyzed by the Environmental Working Group, strawberries, spinach and kale […]
Bruno Latour on Politics in the New Climatic Regime
Bruno Latour on Politics in the New Climatic Regime Why are so many zones of the world descending into chaos and confusion? There is no single reason, of course, but the French scholar of modernity, Bruno Latour, has a compelling overarching theory. In his new book, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (Polity), Latour […]
