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Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi
Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Genetically modified (GM) cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. And like the Green Revolution, GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops […]
“How to Wreck the Environment” — MacDonald’s Blueprint for Modern Geophysical Warfare
“How to Wreck the Environment” — MacDonald’s Blueprint for Modern Geophysical Warfare Geophysical warfare is a vast subject with historical examples going back into ancient Human history. Today it appears to be the main thrust of all the most cutting-edge military technologies. Even though the militaries of today are constantly engaging in it AND it […]
Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity – The Global Warming Conspiracy
Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity – The Global Warming Conspiracy Woolly Rhinoceros Climate Change has existed throughout the history of our planet. When a Wool;y Rino was discovered frozen in Siberia intact back in 1774, that is the event that shook the scientific community. I have called this the Clash between Catastrophe and Uniformity which has […]
Climate Jobs for All
Climate Jobs for All Building Block for the Green New Deal It was an iconic moment: Young people occupy Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office demanding a Green New Deal to put millions of people to work making a climate-safe economy — when suddenly newly-elected Congressional representative and overnight media star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins them with a resolutionin […]
Britain’s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years
Britain’s Excess Winter Deaths Soar To Highest In Over 40 Years Winter is always a period of increased work for health services, with statistics every year proving this in the most blunt of fashions. Excess winter death figures represent the difference in the number of people dying during the winter months compared the rest of […]
Scientists: The Globe’s Food Supply System Is Broken
Scientists: The Globe’s Food Supply System Is Broken The world’s science academics are saying that the global food supply system is completely broken. They say that in order to avoid a “climate catastrophe” the global population should overhaul the farming system and eat less meat. Billions of people worldwide are either underfed or overweight. The current […]
Unstable Planet: Anchorage, Alaska Is Devastated By A Giant 7.0 Earthquake – Is The West Coast Next?
Unstable Planet: Anchorage, Alaska Is Devastated By A Giant 7.0 Earthquake – Is The West Coast Next? We just got more evidence that our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. On Friday a magnitude 7.0 earthquake destroyed homes, ripped apart roads and destroyed infrastructure all throughout Anchorage, Alaska. According to the USGS, the earthquake hit at […]
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch
Decades of Denial and Stalling Have Created a Climate Crunch In a 1965 speech to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory Committee, based in part on research the institute conducted in the 1950s. “The substance of the report is that there is still […]
We broke down what climate change will do, region by region
Grist / Smith Collection / Gado / Getty Images We broke down what climate change will do, region by region Yeah, we read each chapter of the report so you don’t have to. Look, at this point, even the most stubborn among us know that climate change is coming for our asses. We really don’t […]
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power”
Woolsey Fire Started at Santa Susana Field Lab — Site of “[fourth] largest release of iodine-131 in the history of nuclear power” In my Nov. 16 column, I reported on potential radiation risks posed by California’s Woolsey wildfire having burned over parts or all of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory—south of Simi Valley, Calif., 30 […]
The End of Illusion
The End of Illusion Photo Source Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 The following is the Epilogue from Jeffrey St. Clair’s and Joshua Frank’s new book The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink, available now from CounterPunch Books. In the spring of 2017, the carbon dioxide readings at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawai’i cracked […]
Scientists: Weak Ocean Circulation Could Signify Incoming Mini Ice Age
Scientists: Weak Ocean Circulation Could Signify Incoming Mini Ice Age A weak circulation of ocean waters in the North Atlantic could signify that a mini ice age is just around the corner. Scientists have discovered the weakening currents look similar to those that happened right before the Little Ice Age, a cold spell observed between about […]
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal
Climate Scientist Michael Mann Releases Emails Ahead of University of Arizona Response to E&E Legal Nearly a decade ago, in late 2009, a server at the University of East Anglia was hacked and thousands of emails from the university’s Climatic Research Unit were subsequently released in the run-up to the Copenhagen climate talks. Within these […]
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy
Sacrificing Children: Pesticides in the Time of Oligarchy Photo Source Andy Powell | CC BY 2.0 Oligarchy is bad for children’s health All past civilizations protected children. It was self-evident that healthy children assured continuity, security and happiness. However, machine-powered civilizations give the illusion corporations, oligarchies, and the government control everything. Children fade in this confused […]
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’
Humanity is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, Not ‘Capitalism’ Photo Source N i c o l a | CC BY 2.0 Cocked the gat to her head, and pulled back the shirt cover But what he saw made him start to cringe and stutter Cause he was starring into the eyes of his own mother — […]
