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What a Waste
What a Waste Our modern industrial economy traces a straight line from resource extraction to manufacturing to sales to waste disposal. Since Earth has finite resources and limited ability to absorb pollution, the straight-line economy is unsustainable; it is designed for eventual failure. Why not make the economy circular, with waste from one process feeding into […]
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China
More Frack Quakes Rattle Alberta, Cause Deaths in China Regulator shuts down operations near Red Deer. Thousands protest in Sichuan. On Monday Albertans living around the oil-service city of Red Deer, got an early morning wake-up call – a 4.6 earthquake. Vesta Energy, a privately owned oil and gas company, halted its fracking operations west […]
By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves
By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves Enslavement and sharecropping cannot erase thousands of years of Black people’s sacred relationship with the land. Dijour Carter refused to get out of the van parked in the gravel driveway at Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. The other teens in his program emerged […]
Grow Your Own Survival Medicine: Cayenne Pepper
Grow Your Own Survival Medicine: Cayenne Pepper Prescription meds and over-the-counter medications may or may not be available in a given economic collapse, but you can always grow your own medicinal herbs or even source them in the wild. If you could only have one medicinal herb in your survival bag it should be cayenne […]
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts
Venezuela collapse: looting, hunger, blackouts [ Venezuela is experiencing a double whammy of drought and low oil prices, which has lead to blackouts and inability to import food. It just keeps getting worse and worse. Related posts: Book review of “In order to live: A North Korean girl’s journey to freedom” by Yeonmi Park Inside North […]
Government Warns Of Historic, Widespread Flooding “Through May” – Food Prices To Skyrocket As 1000s Of Farms Are Destroyed
Government Warns Of Historic, Widespread Flooding “Through May” – Food Prices To Skyrocket As 1000s Of Farms Are Destroyed We have never seen catastrophic flooding like this, and the NOAA is now telling us that there will be more major flooding for at least two more months. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
Icebergs and bankers
Icebergs and bankers On Saturday March 16, tens of thousands of people marched through the streets of Paris demanding action on climate change. At the same time and not far away, a group of gilets jaunes protestors were demonstrating, sometimes violently, against the economic policies of President Macron—one of which increased the tax on gasoline and diesel […]
Catastrophic Flooding In The Midwest Could Last “For Months”, And That Is Going To Mean A Dramatic Drop In U.S. Food Production
Catastrophic Flooding In The Midwest Could Last “For Months”, And That Is Going To Mean A Dramatic Drop In U.S. Food Production The worst flooding disaster in the history of the Midwest is just getting started, and as this crisis unfolds we are all going to be feeling the pain. The “bomb cyclone” that recently […]
‘They Have Lied for Decades’: European Parliament To Scrutinise Exxon’s Climate Science Denial
‘They Have Lied for Decades’: European Parliament To Scrutinise Exxon’s Climate Science Denial With millions of students taking to the streets and oil majors increasingly facing litigation, the fossil fuel industry is finally being held to account for its contribution to the climate crisis. This week, the EU is taking this accountability up a notch, with ExxonMobil’s decades-long denial of climate […]
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green
Yellow Vest Movement Not Yet Changing Its Color to Green From Paris, Léa Bouchoucha reports for Consortium News on two sets of demonstrators, some of whom are mingling while others keep a distance. Some had hoped the two marches in Paris last Saturday— one focused on global warming and the other representing the 18th straight weekend of Yellow […]
Green New Physics
Green New Physics You could probably say I’m sympathetic to the schoolchildren protesting against climate change, and I’m sympathetic to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her call for a Green New Deal. Young people are the future, and they deserve a voice about that future. At the same time, I’m also deeply skeptical about their understanding of […]
It’s Happening – The Most Dangerous Volcano In North America Just Erupted And Shot Ash Nearly A Mile Into The Sky
It’s Happening – The Most Dangerous Volcano In North America Just Erupted And Shot Ash Nearly A Mile Into The Sky A lot of us have been watching Mt. Popocatepetl for a very long time. Could it be possible that we are now on the verge of the most destructive volcanic eruption in the modern […]
Facebook just suspended Natural News for 7 days for posting this rather ho-hum fluoride infographic
Facebook just suspended Natural News for 7 days for posting this rather ho-hum fluoride infographic (Natural News) The insanity of the tech giants’ censorship continues to expand by the day. With Twitter having permanently banned the Health Ranger account several weeks ago (@HealthRanger) after I criticized Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey for his involvement in a […]
U.S. Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, Energy Advisory Group Documents Show
U.S. Government Knew Climate Risks in 1970s, Energy Advisory Group Documents Show The National Petroleum Council, once chaired by former Exxon chief Lee Raymond, has long advised the U.S. government on energy issues. Documents show it downplayed fossil fuels’ role in climate change. Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A series of newly discovered documents clarify […]
Failing Students on Climate Change
Failing Students on Climate Change Photograph Source Leonhard Lenz Last Friday hundreds of thousands of students around the globe walked out of classrooms to demand that our political leaders take concrete steps to address the deadly threat of climate change. They are right, of course, that the generations of their elders, from millennials to baby […]
