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Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet
Eat Less Meat and Save the Planet Dr. D: Eat less meat to save the planet – report (1)The new diet that could save the planet (2)What to eat to save the planet: Report urges ‘radical changes’ to world’s diet – less meat, more veggies (3) These headlines, likely sourced from a recent article from “The Lancet” (4) are a regular feature of our time, in […]
What will it feel like to be left behind?
What will it feel like to be left behind? Chris Martenson’s recent article about collapse and the plummeting of biodiversity made me think about what it feels like to be left behind. Few people living in affluent countries or communities understand what this means. Americans closed their eyes to the plight of people in underdeveloped countries whose […]
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4
Calling for ‘Unprecedented and Urgent Action’ to Solve Climate Crisis, Four Organizers Shut Off Valves at Enbridge Lines 3 and 4 “This is some serious climate leadership.” Four Catholic Workers shut off valves at Enbridge Energy Line 3 and 4 in northern Minnesota on Monday. (Photo: @4necessity/Twitter) Condemning “the imminent and irreversible damage being done […]
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk
UK vegetable and fruit supplies at risk Potatoes on the wing – and thin pickings for all as UK crops wilt. Image: By Lucas Sankey on Unsplash Britons’ familiar and well-loved fish and chips could become scarcer as politics and climate change imperil UK vegetable and fruit supplies. LONDON, 5 February, 2019 − A combination of Brexit − Britain’s move to […]
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained
Alberta’s Mega Oil and Gas Liability Crisis, Explained A Supreme Court ruling now forces firms to clean up abandoned wells before paying creditors. That doesn’t solve much. Just how will an increasingly indebted industry, hobbled by low energy prices and rising costs, find the up to $260 billion needed to clean up its inactive pipelines, wells, plants […]
Green New Deal Flunks the Limits Lesson
Green New Deal Flunks the Limits Lesson The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman claims to have invented the idea of the Green New Deal in 2007.[1]He’s back to enlighten us about what it should mean now. Friedman deserves credit as one of the few mainstream pundits who takes climate breakdown seriously. But mainstream methods created the […]
New Analysis: Curbing Pesticides Key to Reversing Insect Apocalypse
New Analysis: Curbing Pesticides Key to Reversing Insect Apocalypse More Than 40 Percent of World’s Insect Species on Fast-track to Extinction PORTLAND, Ore.— Authors of a major new scientific review of the catastrophic decline of insects say a “serious reduction in pesticide usage” is key to preventing the extinction of up to 41 percent of the world’s insects […]
Opinion: Green Tech Metals for Renewable Energy and Other Smart Technologies Need to be Sourced Sustainably and Responsibly. Here’s How.
OPINION: GREEN TECH METALS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OTHER SMART TECHNOLOGIES NEED TO BE SOURCED SUSTAINABLY AND RESPONSIBLY. HERE’S HOW. Climate change solutions — like solar energy, wind energy and electric vehicles — depend on rare earth elements. How we secure those elements matters. Illustration by Sean Quinn February 1, 2019 — The recent Intergovernmental Panel on […]
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies
Climate Misinformation Researchers Throw Support Behind California Communities Suing Fossil Fuel Companies Just in case fossil fuel companies had forgotten when and how much they knew about the impacts their products have had on the climate, a reminder came at them in court this week. On January 29, six researchers studying climate misinformation filed one of eight […]
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union
Haven’t Enough to Keep You Awake At Night? Try The Doomsday Clock For A Truthful State Of The Union Tick Tock. The good folks at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientistshave returned to wind their Doomsday Clock. Last Thursday at the National Press Club a group of well-credentialed speakers, including former California Governor Jerry Brown and former […]
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices?
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices? Look at Oklahoma as a possible preview of things to come. B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could barely contain their glee last year when LNG Canada declared its $40-billion Kitimat export terminal and related pipeline were going ahead. But neither […]
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report
Malnutrition, Obesity and Climate Change Threaten Our Future, Warns Report Lancet says three threats are interacting to create a dangerous ‘syndemic.’ The Lancet calls it the “Global Syndemic.” The report’s authors say we’re facing three pandemics — undernutrition, obesity and climate change — that are interacting to form a “synergy of epidemics,” or syndemic, and it’s a […]
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism
The Toxic Legacy of Environmental Neoliberalism A look at Poland’s growing ecological disaster — and its polluted past — shows how green ideals can wither on the vine. At December’s Katowice Climate Change Conference, Polish President Andrzej Duda proudly opened the proceedings by declaring that coal “does not contradict the protection of the climate and the progress […]
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go?
Let’s say I wanted to escape climate change. Where should I go? Q.I am not giving up … but if I were to move, where in the United States could I go to minimize climate disruption? — Uneasy in a U-Haul A.Dear Uneasy, So you want to escape climate change. That’s a reasonable impulse — climate change […]
