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What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity
What If We Just Buy Off Big Fossil Fuel? A Novel Plan to Mitigate the Climate Calamity Photo Source Food & Water Watch | CC BY 2.0 As the nations of the world are gathered in Poland to fret about the state of the climate, there’s an unpleasant truth—one might say an inconvenient truth—that climate […]
Guest Post: Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high
Guest Post: Carbon emissions will reach 37 billion tonnes in 2018, a record high Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Robbie Andrew, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo, and Rob Jackson, Stanford University Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions […]
Mercury rising
Mercury rising Mercury is back in the news. And it’s not good. A new report just released by IPEN (a global network of public interest NGOs) documents the high levels of this potent neurotoxin found in women surveyed in 21 countries, including many small island states. Almost 75 % of the women surveyed had mercury […]
Money: the silent killer
Money: the silent killer In Sweden, which is famously on the way to becoming cash-free, you can find signs in shop windows that say ‘we don’t take cash because electronic payments are better for the environment’. Since cash does require a certain amount of resource use for its production process and transportation, and since in […]
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment
Unlike a Globalized Food System, Local Food Won’t Destroy the Environment If you’re seeking some good news during these troubled times, look at the ecologically sound ways of producing food that have percolated up from the grassroots in recent years. Small farmers, environmentalists, academic researchers and food and farming activists have given us agroecology, holistic […]
“Historic Storm” To Bury Southern Appalachians In Snow; Expect Massive Travel Disruptions
“Historic Storm” To Bury Southern Appalachians In Snow; Expect Massive Travel Disruptions Ed Vallee, head meteorologist at Vallee Weather Consulting, has certainly been on his weather game this year. Last month, his forecasts correctly pointed to a number of cross-country storms and unprecedented cold weather that punished the East Coast. Now, his forecasts point to […]
COP24: climate protesters must get radical and challenge economic growth
COP24: climate protesters must get radical and challenge economic growth What do we want … when do we want it? Now. Etienne Laurent/EPA At the COP24 conference in Poland, countries are aiming to finalise the implementation plan for the 2015 Paris Agreement. The task has extra gravity in the wake of the recent IPCC report declaring […]
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction
Warnings of Doom, Amid a Smokescreen of Denial and Distraction Photo Source reurinkjan | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration predictably tried to bury the dire warnings contained in the fourth National Climate Assessment by releasing it the day after Thanksgiving, when many people would be distracted by the mass consumption frenzy known as Black Friday. […]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream]
Human and Planetary Health [Part II: Going Upstream] Transcript of Daniel Wahl’s ‘Findhorn Talk’ on Human and Planetary Health: Ecosystems Restoration at the dawn of the Century of Regeneration; October 13th, 2018 […Part I] We need to go upstream and look at this ‘crisis of perception’. We need to start rethinking the story of who we […]
Earth Over the Brink
Earth Over the Brink Glacier National Park is drip drip dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. Others are hacking […]
Humanure Part 2: Dealing With It
HUMANURE PART 2: DEALING WITH IT In part 1(1) of this article I explored a little into why humanure is beneficial to the planet, including the need to replenish our aquifers and for people to have access to safe drinking water, the high phosphorous content of human poo compared to the finite and dwindling supply […]
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment
Fact-checking the second volume of the U.S. National Climate Assessment This recently-issued study (the “Assessment”) was seized on by the media as proof of the massive damage the US will suffer if nothing is done about climate change. The Assessment’s conclusions are based largely on speculative model projections that aren’t amenable to checking, but it […]
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks
COP24: Climate Science Denial, Disinformation and Fake News at the UN Climate Talks In an age of “fake news” and disinformation, in which climate science deniers have been elected to the head of some of the world’s largest governments, the UN climate talks continue to act as a stage for those who wish to cast […]
“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders
“Collapse Of Civilisation Is On The Horizon” – Attenborough Warns World Leaders (Editors note: The world faces some very serious ecological challenges due to the pollution, destruction and over consumption of our natural resources. What we find quite bizarre is the complete cognitive dissonance between the increasingly alarming warnings of absolute environmental Armageddon and the […]
